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We invite you to join NATCO. Our membership includes procurement and transplant professionals. NATCO provides valuable educational opportunities and the ability to network with your colleagues, plus several member benefits including:

• Education . geared specifically to heighten transplant/ procurement professionals' ability to provide the best patient, donor and family care in a changing medical environment. Offerings are available for every specialty area, from beginning to advanced practice, from practitioner to administrator, including national conferences, workshops, and online education.

• Networking . with transplant and procurement professionals to enhance your professional development and apply in your practice what you learn from others through electronic list servs, face-to-face at workshops and meetings, and through volunteer participation on NATCO committees. Can't find what you're looking for in these venues? NATCO's website hosts a searchable membership directory through which you can search for colleagues by area of practice, institution name and a variety of other factors.

• Scientific information . delivered to you through NATCO's publications and web site. The indexed scientific journal, Progress in Transplantation , keeps members current on practice-related issues which boost their own performance. Articles featuring scientific breakthroughs, controversial therapies, and ethical issues are some of the topics featured in each issue. The In Touch newsletter provides brief, informative articles on NATCO's initiatives underway on our members' behalf and reports events that affect your practice. A portion of your membership dues ($35) goes towards your subscription for Progress in Transplantation.

• Research . provides the opportunity to study questions and present results encountered in every-day practice. Learn from colleagues through abstracts, case studies and research grant presentations, which NATCO and our corporate colleagues support.

• Mentorship . of less experienced colleagues enhances professional development. Many members have general questions about professional practice and research. NATCO can help you find a transplant professional who has experience in your specialty area who will act as a resource and sounding board fin your professional development.

• Washington Representation . Effectively presenting ways the nation can improve patient, donor and family care, while reducing the frustrations and challenges our members face in daily practice. Transplant professionals influence legislation and positively impact their practice when they participated in NATCO's grass roots efforts. Stay informed through the web site and broadcast e-mails when NATCO weighs in on proposed legislation, presents expert testimony before congressional committees, or suggests new legislation when meeting with health care staffers.