{"id":6526,"date":"2026-04-22T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/?p=6526"},"modified":"2026-04-13T09:50:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:50:04","slug":"calling-dibs-ep-116-saving-lives-with-organ-donation-emergency-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/2026\/04\/22\/calling-dibs-ep-116-saving-lives-with-organ-donation-emergency-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling DIBS Ep 116: Saving Lives with Organ Donation &amp; Emergency Management"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Listen to <a href=\"https:\/\/ubc.ca.panopto.com\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=f59ba3b0-45c7-458a-8209-b42601699c4f\">Episode 116<\/a>:<\/strong> &#8220;Saving Lives with Organ Donation &amp; Emergency Management&#8221; with Karen Smallwood, Product Manager in Connected Services BC, BC Public Service.<br><em>(24 minutes; posted Apr. 22, 2026)<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karen Smallwood has an eye for how to use BI to save lives! Her capstone project team tackled <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/files\/2024\/10\/UBC-DIBS-2024-CBI-01-Organ-Donation-FINAL.pdf\">organ donation<\/a> from a new angle: It turns out many people assume they&#8217;re registered donors when they&#8217;re not! Drawing on her work in emergency management, Karen shares BI barriers faced by folks trying to prevent, prepare for, respond to, or recover from emergencies. She also tells us about Connected Services BC, which will majorly reduce sludge for the people of BC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/files\/2022\/07\/Calling-DIBS-icon-300x300.png\" alt=\"Calling DIBS podcast logo\" class=\"wp-image-2623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/files\/2022\/07\/Calling-DIBS-icon-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/files\/2022\/07\/Calling-DIBS-icon-50x50.png 50w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/files\/2022\/07\/Calling-DIBS-icon.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:85%\">\n<p><em>For the full list of podcast episodes plus transcripts, check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/podcast\/\">Calling DIBS page on the BI wiki<\/a> or subscribe via major podcast platforms like <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/ca\/podcast\/calling-dibs\/id1618687227?ign-itscg=30200&amp;ign-itsct=podcast_box_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/1dMdl3GFBt724LidAq07cW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spotify<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.ca\/podcasts\/ee67542a-5d1c-4a28-9afb-aa84927bb325\/calling-dibs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon Music<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Smallwood shares how BI can increase organ donation, help prepare for and recover from emergencies, and reduce sludge with Connected Services BC [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28042,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,24,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calling-dibs","category-media","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6526"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6804,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526\/revisions\/6804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}