About Save the Cord Foundation:
Save the Cord Foundation is a 501c3 nonprofit foundation created to advance cord blood awareness, education, research and legislation. The foundation’s mission is to provide free, unbiased, factual information to expectant parents and the public concerning the medical value and life-saving benefits of saving umbilical cord blood.
Save the Cord Foundation wants to educate expectant parents about the medical value of their newborn’s cord blood, so they can make their own informed decision about the options for saving it; public donation, private banking or donation to research. The foundation’s vision is to make saving cord blood the standard of care for all newborns and cord blood preservation an accessible option for expectant parents at birthing hospitals in Arizona and across our nation.
To find out more about Save the Cord Foundation, please visit our web site at www.savethecordfoundation.org
About the Celebration Stem Cell Centre / Save the Cord Foundation partnership and collaboration:
Celebration Stem Cell Centre, (CSCC) and Save the Cord Foundation have partnered in a collaboration focused on a state-wide English/Spanish cord blood education and public cord blood collection program. The CSCC’s public cord blood donation program will focus on the Hispanic and ethnically-diverse community of Arizona who are drastically underrepresented in the national public cord blood registry. Expectant parents and the public will receive Save the Cord Foundation inspired non-commercial information in English and Spanish about the medical value of their newborns’ cord blood and their options for saving it.
Charis Ober
Charis has more than 25 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. She graduated from The University of Arizona with a degree in marketing and gained extensive sales and marketing experience by educating physicians, hospitals and medical staff on scientific advances and new product technology. She is married to Dr. Richard Ober and has a son and daughter.
Anne Sarabia
Anne spent 17 years in the medical industry working for top biotech/pharmaceutical firms such as Scios and Schering-Plough. A graduate of The University of Arizona, Anne earned a bachelor of arts and sciences degree in Spanish with minors in Italian and international business. She has two daughters, Rylie and McK.
