Former commercial lender Seton Melvin served as a vice president at Mitsubishi Bank before focusing her efforts on the study of clinically documented brain injuries. Since 1996, Seton Melvin has served as the director of the brain donor program at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.
Mount. Sinai’s brain donor program is housed within the institution’s Icahn School of Medicine, a leader in the area of biomedical research and patient care that boasts over 7,000 faculty and students. Brain donations play a vital role in the healthcare field, helping to drive innovative medical breakthroughs, and enabling researchers and practitioners to better understand neurological disorders and identify treatments and cures for brain diseases.
Brain donation procedures begin with a pre-registration process that involves the referral of a donor’s information to a brain bank, along with the completion of a variety of required release and consent forms. Following the death of a donor, the brain bank should be immediately notified to arrange transportation of the body and removal of the donated tissue. Once this process is completed, the body is returned to the family, who can request a free neuropathology report and post-mortem analysis.
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