Acknowledgments

The assistance and knowledge of many people contributed to the creation of this website. Extraordinary thanks are due to Scott Ramos and Anne Katahira-Sims for their unflagging support and technical assistance.

From the BMT and childhood cancer communities, inspiration and education came from: 
Laurel Simmons, Elaine Kemp, Barbara Lackrtiz ( in memoriam), Art Flatau, Lorraine Jonhnston, Kate Shafer, Airam da Silva, Angela Tucker, Jorge Araujo, Linda Turner, Sue Stewart, Diane Rodriguez, Lauren Slovic, Juan Carlos Ynga, Mindy Schwartz-Brown, Rob Howard, Mark Chesler, Christine Wandzura, and many patients, families, and caregivers, near and far.

Special thanks also to:
Colleen Delaney, MD, Denise Ziegler, and Christie Satterlee of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Leeora Freifeldt, Patient advocate and donor search educator
Misty Marchioni, Cord Blood Program, Community Blood Services (NJ)
Fran Verter, Parents Guide to Cord Blood Banks
Mary Conway, Community Outreach Representative, Seattle Office of Senator Patty Murray
Cindy Roat, Consultant and trainer on language access
Barbara Pearson and Norma Nelson, Northwest Adoption Exchange
Janet Varon, Northwest Health Law Advocates
Jill Dutton, Northwest Justice Project
Joelle Mauthe, Seattle Indian Health Board
Tom McCormack, Title II Community AIDS National Network
Anjana Rai Chaudhuri, Asian CML Support Group
Staff attorneys of the National Health Law Program
Colleagues in the Association of Pediatric Oncology Social Workers, the Association of Oncology Social Work, and the National Council on Interpreting in Health Care

This website  was made possiible by a grant from the Group Health Community Foundation, Children and Youth Category, to the MAVIN Foundation to create the Healthcare Access Initiative in 2006-2007.