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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C Workshop Attendees." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2007. Assessing the Medical Risks of Human Oocyte Donation for Stem Cell Research: Workshop Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11832.
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Lusine Aghejanova

University of California, San Francisco


Shabbir Ahmad

California Department of Health Services


Sarah Angel

Boalt Hall School of Law

University of California, Berkeley


Denise Bernstein

University of California, San Francisco


Dale Carlson

California Institute for Regenerative Medicine


R. Alta Charo

University of California, Berkeley


Patricia Chavira

California Institute for Regenerative Medicine


Erika Check

Nature


Arlene Chiu

California Institute for Regenerative Medicine


L. Stephen Coles

University of California, Los Angeles


Mary Croughan

University of California, San Francisco


Susan Berke Fogel

Pro-Choice Alliance


David Grainger

University of Kansas


Carl Hall

San Francisco Chronicle


Zach Hall

California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C Workshop Attendees." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2007. Assessing the Medical Risks of Human Oocyte Donation for Stem Cell Research: Workshop Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11832.
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Amy Hamilton

University of California, San Francisco


John Jain

University of Southern California


David Jensen

California Stem Cell Report


Aimee Kelley

University of California, Berkley


Ann Kiessling

Harvard Medical School


Sandy Kleffman

Contra Costa Times


Kirk Kleinschmidt

California Institute for Regenerative Medicine


Elizabeth Langdon-Gray

University of California, Office of the President, Office of Research


So Hyun Lee

University of California, San Francisco


Geoffrey Lomax

California Institute for Regenerative Medicine


Bertram Lubin

Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute


Mary Maxon

California Institute for Regenerative Medicine


Juanito Meneses

University of California, San Francisco


Patricia Olson

California Institute for Regenerative Medicine


Joe Palca

National Public Radio


Richard Paulson

University of Southern California


Don Reed

Californians for Cures


Jesse Reynolds

Center for Genetics and Society


Gil Sambrano

California Institute for Regenerative Medicine


Gerald Schatten

University of Pittsburgh


Shehua Shen

University of California, San Francisco


Kate Shreve

California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C Workshop Attendees." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2007. Assessing the Medical Risks of Human Oocyte Donation for Stem Cell Research: Workshop Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11832.
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Joe Leigh Simpson

Baylor College of Medicine


Shannon Smith-Crowley

American Society for Reproductive Medicine


David Smotrich

La Jolla IVF


Susan Stayn

Partners Healthcare, Harvard


Jeff Stryker

Independent Writer

San Francisco, California


Charis Thompson

University of California, Berkeley


Terri Thorfinnson

California Department of Health Services


Sean Tipton

American Society for Reproductive Medicine


Nam Tran

University of California, San Francisco


Kim Chi Vo

University of California, San Francisco


Aubrey Wade

University of California, San Francisco


Richard Wagner

University of California, San Francisco


Zipora Weinbaum

California Department of Health Services


Adrianne Wong

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C Workshop Attendees." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2007. Assessing the Medical Risks of Human Oocyte Donation for Stem Cell Research: Workshop Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11832.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C Workshop Attendees." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2007. Assessing the Medical Risks of Human Oocyte Donation for Stem Cell Research: Workshop Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11832.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C Workshop Attendees." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2007. Assessing the Medical Risks of Human Oocyte Donation for Stem Cell Research: Workshop Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11832.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C Workshop Attendees." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2007. Assessing the Medical Risks of Human Oocyte Donation for Stem Cell Research: Workshop Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11832.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C Workshop Attendees." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2007. Assessing the Medical Risks of Human Oocyte Donation for Stem Cell Research: Workshop Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11832.
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It is widely understood that stem cell treatments have the potential to revolutionize medicine. Because of this potential, in 2004 California voters approved Proposition 71 to set up a 10-year, $3 billion program to fund research on stem cells. Under the direction of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, this program will pay to build facilities for stem cell research and will fund doctors and scientists to carry out research with the ultimate goal of helping to develop therapies based on stem cells.

For this research to move forward, however, will require a steady supply of stem cells, particularly human embryonic stem cells. Those stem cells are collected from developing human embryos created from eggs—or oocytes—harvested from the ovaries of female donors. Thus much of the promise of stem cells depends on women choosing to donate oocytes to the research effort.

The oocyte donation process is not without risk, however. Donors are given doses of hormones to trigger the production of more eggs than would normally be produced, and this hormone treatment can have various side effects. Once the eggs have matured in the ovary, they must be retrieved via a surgical procedure that is typically performed under anesthesia, and both the surgery and the anesthesia carry their own risks. Furthermore, given the very personal nature of egg donation, the experience may carry psychological risks for some women as well.

With this in mind, in 2006 the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine contracted with the National Academies to organize a workshop that would bring together experts from various areas to speak about the potential risks of oocyte donation and to summarize what is known and what needs to be known about this topic. The Committee on Assessing the Medical Risks of Human Oocyte Donation for Stem Cell Research was formed to plan the workshop, which was held in San Francisco on September 28, 2006. This report is a summary and synthesis of that workshop.

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