February 2012

The Osteopathic Scrub Run, April 23, benefits LifeShare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma. Inspired by the Colby Cassani Endowed Lectureship Series (CCELS) and Colby's gifts of life through organ donation the 10k was renamed to honor Colby and Brayden (donor and recipient) by the OSU Student Osteopathic Medicine Association.  It is held in conjunction with the National Donate Life Month each April.  Click here for more information or to register for the run

The Colby Foundation first awarded its Colby Cassani Endowed Lectureship Series (CCELS) to Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences in 1997.  The annual CCELS is made possible through the generosity of our contributors.  It focuses on the importance of organ donation and transplantation.

The Colby Cassani Endowed Lectureship Series at LECOM introduced all perspectives of organ, eye and tissue donation to attendees.  Colby Foundation founder and trustee (and mother of our foundation's namesake), Starla Cassani. shared the personal side of organ donation with students faculty and staff in recounting Colby's story.

The Colby Cassani Endowed Lectureship Series at LECOM introduced all perspectives of organ, eye and tissue donation to attendees.  Colby Foundation founder and trustee (and mother of our foundation's namesake), Starla Cassani. shared the personal side of organ donation with students faculty and staff in recounting Colby's story.

LECOM Bradenton will host its second Colby Cassani Endowed Lectureship Series (CCELS) on Wednesday, Feb. 9th.  LECOMs three campuses were endowed by the Colby Foundation to provide organ donation and organ transplant education to the college’s students through the CCELS.

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Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences (PNWU) has made its first Colby Cassani Endowed Lectureship Series (CCELS) part of an Organ & Tissue Symposium.  In keeping with the endowment's requirements, medical students will learn about current research into organ and tissue donation as well as state-specific requirements.  To ensure that they get a true representation of the donation and transplant experience, donor and recipient famil

The Colby Foundation is proud to have awarded Lincoln Memorial University DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine (LMU-DCOM) its Colby Cassani Endowed Lectureship Series (CCELS).  LMU is hosting its first CCELS as part of Fall Convocation, creating a tremendous outreach opportunity.  Not only will LMU-DCOM's medical students benefit from the CCELS; but, LMU has included university undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff, and the general public in the events.  We ar

Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences (OSU-CHS) was the first school to be granted the Colby Cassani Endowed Lectureship Series by the Colby Foundation.  The College of Osteopathic Medicine's students were so moved by the lectureships that they opted to use their annual fundraising event, the "Osteopathic Scrub Run" as a way to raise awareness about organ/eye/tissue donation.  In 2009, t

Nicholas Jabbour, M.D., FACS, medical director of the Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute at Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City, is the speaker at the upcoming Colby Cassani Endowed Lectureship Series (CCELS) at OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine.