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Figures</A> - <A href="http://www.transweb.org/about_tw/about_tw.htm#awards">Awards/Press</A> <BR><A href="http://www.transweb.org/about_tw/legal.htm#copyright">Copyright</A> - <A href="http://www.transweb.org/about_tw/legal.htm#reprints">Reprint Permissions</A> - <A href="http://www.transweb.org/about_tw/legal.htm#submissions">Submissions</A> - <A href="http://www.transweb.org/about_tw/legal.htm#disclaimer">Disclaimer</A> - <A href="http://www.transweb.org/about_tw/legal.htm#privacy">Privacy Policy</A><BR><A href="http://www.transweb.org/about_tw/about_tw.htm#sponsors">Sponsors</A>, <A href="http://www.transweb.org/about_tw/about_tw.htm#support">How to Support TransWeb</A> - <A href="http://www.transweb.org/about_tw/about_tw.htm#board">Editorial Board</A>, <A href="http://www.transweb.org/about_tw/about_tw.htm#staff">Staff</A> - <A href="http://www.transweb.org/about_tw/contact.htm">Contact TransWeb</A></FONT> <P><B><A name=description></A>Brief Description<BR></B></P> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P><I>TransWeb: All About Transplantation and Donation</I> (www.transweb.org) is a nonprofit educational web site serving the world transplant community. Based at the <A href="http://www.umich.edu/">University of Michigan</A>, TransWeb features news and events, real people's experiences, the top 10 myths about donation, a donation quiz, and a large collection of questions and answers, as well as a reference area with everything from articles to videos. For adults and teens, TransWeb features <A href="http://www.transweb.org/journey"><I>Give Life: The Transplant Journey</I></A> a multimedia trip through the donation and transplantation process. A comprehensive <A href="http://www.transweb.org/subindex/azindex/azindexa.html">subject index</A>, the ability to search the site, and improved navigation make TransWeb useful for a broad audience, including not only transplant patients and their families, but also students and teachers, health care professionals, and the media. </P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><B><A name=history></A>History of TransWeb</B></P> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P><B></B>In December of 1994, when the World Wide Web was just catching on and Netscape 1.0 was introduced, a group within <A href="http://www.med.umich.edu/trans/public/index.html">Michigan Transplant</A> was observing what was happening on the Internet relating to transplantation. At that time, there were a handful of disparate transplant-related web pages, but the most active transplant-related aspect of the Internet was a newsgroup (<A href="http://www.concentric.net/~Holloway/">TRNSPLNT</A>) comprised mainly of transplant candidates, recipients, and their friends and family members. Concerned that there was no comprehensive or authoritative web site for learning about transplantation and donation, the group decided late in 1994 to develop such a site, as a public service. With the volunteer efforts of this group that became the TransWeb editorial board, <A href="http://www.transweb.org/old_transweb/We_Went_Live!/TransWeb/TransWebHome.html">TransWeb was launched January 21, 1995</A>. </P> <P>Shortly thereafter, TransWeb received a large grant which enabled the creation of a full time editorial position, and Eleanor Jones became TransWeb's editor/webmaster. Over the 11 years since 1995, the editorial board, the TransWeb staff, and many professional transplant staff and student volunteers have worked in concert to enable TransWeb to grow steadily in scope and quality. They strive constantly to provide more and better information, and to improve the effectiveness of the web site by increasing usability and viewer appeal. </P> <P><I>See also: <A href="http://www.transweb.org/old_transweb/history_of_tw.htm">A Visual History of TransWeb</A>, and <A href="http://www.transweb.org/news/press/archive/pr_tw_5thbday.htm">5th Birthday Press Release</A></I></P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><B><A name=charter></A>Charter: </B> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P>TransWeb's mission has been constant from the beginnings in 1994 to the present: 1) To provide information about donation and transplantation to the general public in order to improve organ and tissue procurement efforts worldwide; 2) To provide transplant patients and families world wide with information specifically dealing with transplant-related issues and concerns; and 3) To provide an index of sources for transplant-related information available through the internet and otherwise. </P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><B><A name=special></A>Special Projects:</B> <BLOCKQUOTE>The Transplant Games are Olympic-style competitions for transplant recipients, designed to draw attention to the success of transplantation and the need for organ donors. By assembling a team of volunteer photographers, audio interviewers, writers, and programmers and providing daily Internet coverage of these events, TransWeb helps to spread that message. Since sending a three-person team to report on the 1996 U.S. Transplant Games in Salt Lake City, TransWeb has created 11 webcasts from transplant-related events around the world; most recently, the <A href="../webcast/world2005/index.htm">2005 World Transplant Games webcast</A>, direct from London, Ontario. <P>In October 1996, TransWeb received a seed grant from the <A href="http://www.hrsa.gov/osp/dot/">Division of Transplantation</A> (Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration) to create an educational web site for a younger audience. <A href="http://www.transweb.org/journey/recip_journey/index.html"><I>The Transplant Journey </I></A>(www.transweb.org/journey) takes the visitor on a trip through the kidneytransplant process, with text, photos, medical illustrations, a full glossary, and audio. In December 1997, The <I>Journey</I> was launched as part of Vice President Al Gore's national donation initiative. </P> <P>In September 1999, TransWeb, along with partners at The Transplantation Society of Michigan, The <A href="http://www.isr.umich.edu/src/">Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research</A> (at University of Michigan), and TransCom Media, received a $900,000 three-year grant from HRSA's Division of Transplantation to study the effectiveness of combining multimedia education, donor registration, and family notification into one Internet-based effort, where the educational component is <A href="http://www.transweb.org/journey"><I>Give Life: The Transplant Journey</I></A>, which is told from the donor family's perspective. This grant was part of a $13 million program <A href="http://www.transweb.org/news/news/archive/gore9909/gore9909.htm">announced by Vice President Gore</A>, in which TransWeb's was the only Internet-based project to receive funding. Medical illustrations, explanatory graphics, and other artwork and design for The Journey was provided by our staff artist, <a href="http://www.mattwimsatt.com">Matt Wimsatt</a>. </P> <P>And in 2002, TransWeb, with partners at <A href="http://www.jeffersonhospital.org/surgery/e3front.dll?durki=4183">Thomas Jefferson University</A> and the Institute for Social Research, again received a 4-year grant from the Division of Transplantation. This $1.02 million grant is part of Secretary Thompson's Organ Donation Initiative, and the project is titled "Targeted Intervention to Increase Living Kidney Donation." <A href="http://newsroom.hrsa.gov/releases/2002releases/donorresearchgrants.htm">See press release</A> and our <A href="http://www.transweb.org/about_tw/tw_news/dot02_abstract.htm">abstract</A>.</P> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><B><A name=audience></A>Audience:</B> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P>TransWeb's audience has grown from roughly 4,000 "hits" per month in 1995 to over 2.5 million "hits" per month in 2006. With the ability to better interpret these data, we are learning that TransWeb receives 130,000 user visits per month, by 80,000 unique users. TransWeb has been used by visitors from all over the globe, from over one hundred different internet domains from AD (Andorra) to ZW (Zimbabwe). </P> <P>Some of our visitors choose to identify themselves; about 60% are transplant patients and their friends/families, 20% are medical professionals, 6% are teachers or students, and the rest are other transplant professionals, donor families, transplant-related businesses, and the general public. Additional anecdotal information from the many emails sent to TransWeb indicates that a large percentage of one-time users are students of all ages. </P> <P><I>See also: <A href="http://www.transweb.org/about_tw/accesses.htm">Number of Visitors and Other Usage Statistics</A></I></P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><B><A name=facts></A>Facts &amp; Figures: </B> <BLOCKQUOTE> <TABLE cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=2 width="100%" border=0> <TBODY> <TR vAlign=top> <TD> <DIV align=right>Date launched... </DIV></TD> <TD>January 21, 1995</TD></TR> <TR vAlign=top> <TD> <DIV align=right>Size of TransWeb at launch in 1995... </DIV></TD> <TD>41 files, mostly text <BR>(no audio and only a handful of images)</TD></TR> <TR vAlign=top> <TD> <DIV align=right>Size of TransWeb in March 2006... </DIV></TD> <TD>36,278 text, image, video,<BR> and audio files, totalling&nbsp;10,326&nbsp;MB </TD> </TR> <TR vAlign=top> <TD> <DIV align=right>Number of&nbsp;"hits" since inception...</DIV></TD> <TD>over 180,000,000</TD> </TR> <TR vAlign=top> <TD> <DIV align=right>Average number of&nbsp;visits per day...</DIV></TD> <TD>5,092</TD> </TR> <TR vAlign=top> <TD> <DIV align=right>Number of countries who have visited TransWeb... </DIV></TD> <TD>112</TD></TR> <TR vAlign=top> <TD> <DIV align=right>Number of sponsors since inception... </DIV></TD> <TD>47</TD></TR> <TR vAlign=top> <TD> <DIV align=right>Staff... </DIV></TD> <TD>2</TD> </TR></TBODY></TABLE></BLOCKQUOTE><A name=awards></A><B>Awards/Press: </B> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P>Over the years, TransWeb has received numerous awards, most notably being designated as one of the top five health and medicine sites in the world, by Popular Science, and a public service award from the National Kidney Foundation, in recognition of TransWeb's webcast of the 1998 U.S. Transplant Games. In addition, such esteemed publications as Britannica Online (i.e. the web version of Encyclopedia Brittanica), the New York Times on the Web, CNN Interactive direct their readers to TransWeb for further information on transplantation and donation. TransWeb was also featured in <I>The Lancet</I>.</P> <P><I>See also: <A href="http://www.transweb.org/about_tw/ppl_say.htm">What People are Saying </A></I></P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><B><A name=board></A>Editorial Board:</B> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P>TransWeb is governed by the TransWeb board, which does long-range planning for the project, takes primary responsibility for fundraising, is responsible for overall site management, and makes final decisions regarding what is placed on the TransWeb site. It is comprised of the following transplant professionals at the University of Michigan:</P> <P><A href="http://www.transweb.org/about_tw/who_istw/edit_board/jdean.gif">Jim Dean</A> (senior programmer analyst, Organ Transplantation Information System, Michigan Transplant)<BR><A href="http://www.transweb.org/about_tw/who_istw/edit_board/rrg/garypie.html">Robert Garypie</A> (organ preservation specialist, Michigan Transplant)<BR><A href="http://www.transweb.org/about_tw/who_istw/edit_board/egj.html">Eleanor Jones</A> (webmaster/editor for TransWeb)<BR><A href="http://www.med.umich.edu/intmed/nephrology/Faculty/Leichtman.html">Alan Leichtman, MD</A> (transplant nephrologist, Associate Professor, Nephrology - Internal Medicine)<BR><A href="http://www.transweb.org/about_tw/who_istw/edit_board/bob_cv.html">Robert Merion, MD</A> (transplant surgeon, Associate Professor, General Surgery)<BR><A href="http://www.transweb.org/about_tw/who_istw/edit_board/jeff_cv.html">Jeffrey Punch, MD</A> (transplant surgeon, Assistant Professor, General Surgery)</P> <P><B><A name=staff></A>Staff and Volunteers<BR> </B>TransWeb is currently managed by one full time staffperson, editor <A href="http://www.transweb.org/about_tw/who_istw/edit_board/egj.html">Eleanor Jones</A>, and one half-time staffperson, web database programmer <A href="http://www.transweb.org/about_tw/who_istw/staff/yihui.htm">Yihui Dong</A>. We are sometimes assisted by part time high school student interns.</P> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><A name=sponsors></A><B>Sponsors:</B> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P>Since 1995, funding and in-kind donations from a large variety of sources, ranging from committed private individuals to small local businesses to major corporations to the federal government and transplant-related organizations, have enabled TransWeb to stay on the air. We are very grateful to all our <A href="http://www.transweb.org/about_tw/sponsors.htm">sponsors</A>, and invite you to <A href="http://www.transweb.org/about_tw/support.htm">join their ranks</A>.</P> <P><A name=support></A>As part of the University of Michigan, TransWeb has 501 (c) (3) nonprofit status. We welcome grants, gifts, and in-kind donations. Donations are tax deductible as allowed by law; we happily provide documentation of your gift for tax records. Please consider <A href="http://www.transweb.org/about_tw/sponsors/fund_form.html">making a donation</A> to help us continue our work. </P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><A name=contact></A><B>Contact: </B> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P><A href="http://www.transweb.org/about_tw/contact.htm#email">Email, phone, and fax </A></P> <P>Eleanor Jones, editor/webmaster<BR>TransWeb: All About Transplantation and Donation<BR>The Northern Brewery, Suite 201<BR>1327 Jones Dr. <BR>Ann Arbor, MI 48105 <BR>USA <BR>fax: 734-998-8333<BR></P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P> <P> <P> <P>&nbsp; <ALIGN="LEFT"><IMG height=47 src="About TransWeb_files/footer.gif" width=590 useMap=#footermap border=0> <MAP name=footermap><AREA title="top of this page" shape=RECT alt="top of this page" coords=0,0,96,47 href="http://www.transweb.org/about_tw/about_tw.htm#top"><AREA title="Copyright 2000 The Regents of the University of Michigan" shape=RECT alt="Copyright 2000 The Regents of the University of Michigan" coords=171,34,437,47 href="http://www.transweb.org/about_tw/legal.htm#copyright"><AREA title="TransWeb's privacy policy" shape=RECT alt="TransWeb's privacy policy" coords=210,24,292,34 href="http://www.transweb.org/about_tw/legal.htm#privacy"><AREA title="TransWeb's front page" shape=RECT target=_self alt="TransWeb's front page" coords=492,0,590,47 href="http://www.transweb.org/index.htm"><AREA title="Nothing on TransWeb is intended as medical advice!" shape=RECT alt="Nothing on TransWeb is intended as medical advice!" coords=291,24,351,35 href="http://www.transweb.org/about_tw/legal.htm#disclaimer"><AREA title="Please contact us for permission to reprint material on TransWeb." shape=RECT alt="Please contact us for permission to reprint material on TransWeb." coords=351,24,449,35 href="http://www.transweb.org/about_tw/legal.htm#reprints"><AREA shape=RECT coords=0,0,0,0 href="http://www.transweb.org/about_tw/about_tw.htm"><AREA title="About TransWeb" shape=RECT alt="About TransWeb" coords=95,0,493,25 href="http://www.transweb.org/about_tw/about_tw.htm"></MAP></ALIGN><BR><FONT size=-2>Last updated on: Friday, 31-Oct-2003 16:04:46 EST</FONT> </P></BODY></HTML>