Quick Becomes an Affiliate Member of the American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB)
New York, NY (PRWEB) July 14, 2016 -- In an effort to show our commitment to the tissue banking profession, Quick Specialized Healthcare Logistics is pleased to announce our new designation as an AATB Affiliate Member.
The work Quick does aligns closely to the mission of AATB, and becoming an AATB Affiliate Member is an important way for us to demonstrate our support for the association and it’s goals.
"As the leader in the transportation of tissue, organs and blood for transplant or research, we are proud to be a Charter AATB Affiliate Member and are dedicated to supporting the life science community by providing innovative logistics solutions that helps save or improve lives," said Dave Murphy, Executive VP of Quick’s Life Science Division.
AATB’s Affiliate Membership was introduced in 2015 as a membership category for organizations that work closely with tissue banks and support the tissue banking profession.
“As an AATB Affiliate Member, Quick has demonstrated their support of AATB and our mission to save and improve lives by promoting the safety, quality and availability of donated tissue and we look forward to working with them,” says Frank Wilton, AATB President and CEO.
About Quick Specialized Healthcare Logistics
For over 35 years, Quick Specialized Healthcare Logistics, a division of the global Quick Group of Companies has been working with key tissue processors and banks, and understands the responsibilities and challenges of delivering life-saving and life-enhancing allografts to healthcare providers and patients. Quick develops a comprehensive customized logistics program, to include optimized routes and modes of transport modes, along with the appropriate packaging and protocols to ensure the safety and integrity of every tissue shipment. This is combined with Quick’s cold chain management expertise to ensure human tissues maintain optimal temperature throughout transit.
For more information about The Quick Group, please visit http://www.quick.aero.
About AATB
The American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB) is a professional, non-profit, scientific and educational organization. It is the only national tissue banking organization in the United States, and its membership totals more than 125 accredited tissue banks and 1,800 individual members. These banks recover tissue from more than 30,000 donors and distribute in excess of 2.5 million allografts for more than one million tissue transplants performed annually in the U.S. The overwhelming majority of the human tissue distributed nationwide comes from AATB-accredited tissue banks.
For more information about AATB, please visit http://www.aatb.org.
Jolanta Reynolds, Quick International Courier, +1 (718) 514-3607, [email protected]
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