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Working to create kidney on a chip PAGe 4 »

Ted Kibble’s gift honors his wife and our staff PAGe 5 »

Shake the salt habit PAGe 6 »

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Community Connection volume 1, Issue 4 · Fall 2012

Get fired up!Our 50th anniversary celebration gala is Nov. 10.

Join us for an evening of cocktails, dinner, auction, entertainment and dancing as we celebrate our first half century. Cost for the black-tie event is $250 per person. Chaired by Gary and Catherine Bylund, the event will offer a live auction of 25 items, including a 10-day trip to Spain, golf excursions, premium wines and more.

dusty 45s founder Billy Joe Huels, known for his charismatic stage presence and signature flaming trumpet, will perform with band member Jerry Battista. The dusty 45s’ sizzling sound has thrilled Seattle for more than a decade.

Huels is excited to help Northwest Kidney Centers celebrate. His wife, artist Cathy McClure, donated a kidney to her cousin, Kristi Murphy, in October 2009.

For more once-in-a-lifetime events that weekend, see page 2.

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Billy Joe Huels will light up the night at the Nov. 10 gala.

©2010 Stan Froehner

50th Anniversary Gala Saturday,

Nov. 10, 2012

5:30 - 11 p.m.

Grand Hyatt Seattle

Register at

gala@nwkidney.org 206-292-5351

What’s Not in the Book A reunion and informal sharing of stories from the pioneers involved in Northwest Kidney Centers’ early years

Friday, Nov. 9, 2012 u 2 - 4 p.m.

Haviland Pavilion, 700 Broadway, Seattle

Free. Register at reunion@nwkidney.org or 206-292-5351.

dr. Christopher Blagg, emeritus executive director of Northwest Kidney Centers, will host a gathering of people who helped shape innovations in kidney care over the decades. Reminisce with them!

Beyond the Horizon A public research symposium on past, present and future science of improving kidney care

Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012 u 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Haviland Pavilion, 700 Broadway, Seattle

Free. Register at symposium@nwkidney.org or 206-292-5351.

Hear about major advances that came from Seattle. What will be the next breakthroughs? What innovations can improve quality of life for people with kidney disease? The symposium is for non-scientists interested in therapeutic advances.

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Action-packed weekend leads to galadon’t miss these 50th anniversary events:

For more information about our anniversary weekend events, please visit: www.nwkidney.org/specialevents.

Gala auction items include:

• 10-day La Manga, Spain trip for two

• 10-day Maui vacation for two

• Sounders suite

• Private wine tour and Walla Walla getaway

• 5th Avenue Theater package: dinner and show for 10

50th Anniversary Gala A black-tie celebration of Northwest Kidney Centers’ first half century

Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012 u 5:30 - 11 p.m.

Grand Hyatt Seattle

$250 admission. Proceeds benefit kidney research.

Register at gala@nwkidney.org or 206-292-5351.

Help celebrate Northwest Kidney Centers’ 50 years of bringing life-sustaining dialysis to Seattle and the world.

La Manga, Spain

Premium wines

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Northwest Kidney Centers recognized employee scholarship

recipients at SeaTac Pavilion July 17, 2012. Headed for school

this fall with donor-funded scholarships are Ibrahim Maga,

Cindy Black, Joseph Sutton, Adrian Fomby, James Pratt and

Kelsey Sprague.

Catherine Bylund organized Fairways and

Flamingos, a golf tournament held on July 24 at

Bear Creek Country Club in Woodinville that

raised $3,550 for Northwest Kidney Centers.

enjoying the day are Lynette McPake, dr.

Bonnie Collins, Northwest Kidney Centers

mascot Sidney, Catherine Bylund and

Northwest Kidney Centers President and CeO

Joyce Jackson.

Help make your future – and ours – brighter The charitable gift annuity

A win-win option: With a charitable gift annuity, you can ensure that the future is more secure – for you and Northwest Kidney Centers. To establish a gift annuity, you agree to make an irrevocable donation to us and, in return, we make fixed annual payments to you for life. The part of your donation that remains after your lifetime supports our mission.

Yes! Please send me more information about a charitable gift annuity.

Yes! I’d like to learn more. Please contact me.

Name __________________________________________________________________

Street address: __________________________________________________________

City, State, Zip: __________________________________________________________

email address: __________________________________________________________

Phone ______________________________ Best time to call: ____________________

!Please clip and mail to: Larry Richards Gift Planning Officer Northwest Kidney Centers 700 Broadway Seattle, WA 98122

Or contact us:legacy@nwkidney.org206-720-8550

Visit:www.nwkidney.org/plannedgiving

The Kidney Research Institute has started a project to engineer three-dimensional chips containing living cells and tissues that imitate the structure and function of human kidneys.

The project received more than $1.9 million from the National Institutes of Health for the first two years, with further funding conditional on demonstrating

significant progress. The goal is to develop various organs-on-a-chip to test drugs for safety and effectiveness before human drug trials are conducted. The Kidney Research Institute proposal is the only study funded for testing of human kidney function.

The local team will design, implement and test a miniature model of living kidney tissues on transparent microchips the size of a coin or a house key. The chips will be lined with living cells and contain features designed to replicate the complex biological function of a human kidney.

dr. Jonathan Himmelfarb, director of the Kidney Research Institute, leads the project team of university of Washington physicians, bioengineers, pharmacists, environmental health researchers and pharmaceutical developers. The Kidney Research Institute is a collaboration between Northwest Kidney Centers and uW Medicine.

Kidney Research Institute awarded funding to develop model kidney-on-a-chip

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‘Who Shall Live?’ bioethics seminar examines moral dilemmas in kidney health care, past and present

A total of 170 people attended Northwest Kidney Centers’ bioethics seminar, “Who Shall Live?” Aug. 9, 2012. The seminar was one in a series of events marking Northwest Kidney Centers’ 50th anniversary. You can watch the seminar online at tinyurl.com/cezlg4g.

Photo courtesy of Nortis, Inc.

At several points in his life, Seattle businessman

Ted Kibble has been a patient. He’s had more than

a half-dozen surgeries and has been hospitalized

several times. Kibble received dialysis at

Northwest Kidney Centers in 1999 before he

received a kidney transplant. It was the care he

received from physicians, nurses and dialysis

technicians while a patient – as well as a desire

to remember his wife, Carol, who sat with him

through many of his treatments – that prompted

his gift. The Carol and Ted Kibble Staff Lounge at

Haviland Pavilion is Ted’s way of saying thank you

to our staff. “during the time I was on dialysis at

Northwest Kidney Centers, they were very patient

and very good to me.”

Ted, a founder of Kibble & Prentice financial

services firm and a former Northwest Kidney

Centers trustee, said one thing that helped him

get through hours of dialysis was bringing his

work with him. He was able to talk to clients as

dialysis machines cleansed his blood, while staff

members were there helping him through each

treatment.

Care provided by Northwest Kidney Centers staff inspires gift from a grateful patient

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Ted Kibble gave a gift to the Transforming 700 Broadway capital campaign in appreciation for the care he received as a dialysis patient in 1999.

“during the time I was on dialysis

at Northwest Kidney Centers,

they were very patient and very

good to me.”

Ted Kibble with Northwest Kidney Centers president and CeO Joyce F. Jackson in the Carol and Ted Kibble Staff Lounge.

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Tell Us Your Story! How has Northwest Kidney Centers touched your life? We invite you to tell us at: www.facesofnwkidney.org

You can help us help our patients adjust to a low-

salt diet, healthy for all of us and essential for

people on dialysis. We’ve set up a wish list on

Amazon.com that includes low-salt foods and tools

that will help our patients as they cook at home.

Buying even an item or two will help someone eat

healthier. Your purchase will ship directly to us,

making it easy for you to make a difference. It’s a

simple, small way to lend support to our mission.

Thank you!

� Hain Pure Foods Baking Powder Sodium-free

� The No-Salt, Lowest-Sodium International Cookbook

� Nu-Salt Salt Substitute

� Lodge Striped Hot Handle Holders/Mitts

� Kitchen Classic Plastic Color decorative Measuring Spoons

Low-salt kits: give patients tools for eating right

Go to Amazon.com and search for “Northwest Kidney Centers” to find our wish list.

We offer information to help you eat smart

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Home dialyzors united, a national nonprofit patient support and advocacy group, honored

Northwest Kidney Centers Oct. 7. The group noted that we were the first dialysis organization

in the nation to provide practical home hemodialysis to patients who would have died of kidney

failure otherwise. “[Northwest Kidney Centers] accomplished this beginning in the early 1960s,

with limited resources, experimental dialysis machines and no government funding,” said Rich

Berkowitz, president and founder of Home dialyzors united. “They proved that through repeated

blood cleansing, several times a week, patients could not only survive for many years, but lead

active, productive lives while receiving regular dialysis.”

eating well is one of

the best ways to keep

your kidneys as healthy

as possible. A kidney-

friendly diet means

different things if you

are healthy overall,

have early-stage kidney

disease, are on dialysis

of various kinds, or have

a transplant. Fortunately,

our energetic nutrition

and fitness staff members

have developed many

tools to help people navigate their food choices.

Thanks to generous donors, we make our library of

brochures available free to our patients and to physicians

who treat them. Take time to peruse the brochure racks

next time you are in one of our facilities. Or see our

website for great meal-planning ideas and recipes.

Chef Amadeus’ salt-free spices

will add a flavorful dazzle to your

dishes without sodium. Support

your health and Northwest Kidney

Centers by buying Southern Passion

spices. Between now and Nov. 10,

a portion of the proceeds of all

Seattle area purchases will benefit

Northwest Kidney Centers. visit

www.chefamadeus.com.

Lose the salt, not the flavor Tickle your taste buds with some Southern Passion

Renin Oliver is one of our registered dietitians happy to help patients follow a kidney-friendly diet.

Home Dialyzors United honors Northwest Kidney Centers

for outstanding achievement in the advancement of home hemodialysis

Mark your calendar

Friday, Nov. 9

What’s Not in the Book: reunion and storytelling, 2 p.m. Haviland Pavilion 700 Broadway, Seattle

Saturday, Nov. 10

Beyond the Horizon: research symposium, 8:30 a.m. Haviland Pavilion 700 Broadway, Seattle

Saturday, Nov. 10

50th Anniversary Gala, 5:30 p.m. Grand Hyatt, Seattle 721 Pine St.

Saturday, Dec. 1

Ceremony of Remembrance, 10 a.m. SeaTac Pavilion 17900 International Blvd. S, SeaTac

700 Broadway • Seattle WA 98122

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Born and raised on a farm in Kentucky, Northwest Kidney Centers patient and volunteer Frank Jones-Leibtag has always enjoyed the outdoors. With more than 35 years of professional gardening experience, Frank enjoys lending his expertise to beautify the Blagg Pavilion and adjoining Lake City dialysis center.

“I know my talents and I saw this opportunity where I could contribute,” Frank says. Frank not only donates his time, but also the plants, compost and ground cover that he adds to the gardens, which he takes care of year-round. In addition, Frank donates beautiful floral arrangements to his dialysis unit and for Northwest Kidney Centers events.

Frank is one of the 600 volunteers who helped advance our mission in countless ways last year. Thank you!

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Growing cheer at Northwest Kidney Centers

Frank Jones-Leibtag is the volunteer gardener for Blagg Pavilion and our Lake City clinic, where he dialyzes.