
UW Health Day goals to strengthen group and bone marrow registry
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Might 20, 2022
Individuals at UW Health Day 2019 at Husky Stadium.College of Washington
The annual College of Washington Health Day returns as an in-person occasion on Monday, Might 23. This yr’s Health Day features a fundraising and registration objective for Be The Match, the nation’s largest registry of bone marrow donors.
Health Day is a singular, campus-wide exercise to have a good time motion. The Seattle campus will host the occasion on the sphere at Husky Stadium, the place individuals will collect from 12:30 to 1:30 pm and full a circuit exercise with 20 stations led by professional coaches from UW Athletics and group companions. Exercise stations will embrace energy coaching, cardio bursts, energetic restoration and yoga. All health ranges are welcome and inspired to take part. Individuals will obtain a free, efficiency tech T-shirt.
From 3:30 to five pm, the festivities transfer to Crimson Sq. for “Get within the Recreation,” a joint effort with Be The Match meant to extend consciousness of its marrow and stem-cell donor registry and encourage college students to join the registry. UW athletes will lead the peer-to-peer training effort with Soccer, Males’s Basketball, Ladies’s Basketball, Males’s Soccer, Ladies’s Soccer, Cheer and Dance, and Monitor groups taking part.
Alexes Harris, UW professor of sociology, is main the push to extend the registry on the occasion. Six years in the past, Harris was identified with a type of leukemia that required a bone marrow transplant however could not discover a match on the registry.
“Be The Match could not discover me a match as a result of individuals of shade are underrepresented on the registry and ancestry issues when matching,” mentioned Harris, who added that she was lucky to enter a scientific trial at Seattle Most cancers Care Alliance and had a twine blood transplant that saved her life. “I work with Be The Match within the title of people that didn’t discover a match and weren’t in a position to reside.”
The objective is to boost $5,000 and enroll 500 new registry members. Individuals are invited to make a $5 advised donation when registering for UW Health Day.
“After years of not having the ability to collect in particular person because of the pandemic, I’m thrilled to see workers and college students come collectively in group as soon as once more,” mentioned Mindy Kornberg, UW vp for Human Sources. “UW workers throughout campus and our medical facilities work terribly laborious and this occasion is the epitome of centering worker well-being at work.”
Health Day occasions are additionally being held Monday at Harborview Medical Heart, UW Bothell and UW Tacoma. Extra data on all UW Health Day occasions at each location will be discovered on The Complete U’s web site.
For extra data, contact Victor Balta at balta@uw.edu.
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