Oran Lee

Chaplains Oran Lee and Karrie Oertli on taking an active role with organ donation
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Following our department's commitment, Chaplain Oran Lee began to take an active role.Chaplain Karrie Oertli and Chaplain Lee advocated for him to attend the Organ Donation Breakthrough Collaborative meeting, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.At the 2003 meeting, he was one of eight chaplains participating (this rate has improved).He observed that chaplains were not involved in the donation process in many hospitals.

With Chaplain Oertli's support, he began to implement his vision that chaplains could affect donation rates and became co-chair in 2005 and chair in 2006.He also advocated including other disciplines.We believed best practice would include a multidisciplinary team that would encourage all healthcare team members to remain vigilant about organ donation opportunities.The committee would include respiratory therapists, social workers, a neurological ICU chaplain, physicians, surgery educators, administrative supervisors, and bedside nurses.Working together, this group increased our donation rate to 89 percent.Further improvements are expected by recruiting, training, and supporting nurse champions in critical care units.

Currently, Chaplain Lee is leading the committee to revise our brain death policy to a "Death by Neurological Criteria" policy, which will streamline our physicians' process to pronounce brain death.
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Oran Lee, M.Div., BCC is staff chaplain at INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and is a participant in the Organ Donation Breakthrough Collaborative, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Chaplains Oran Lee and Karrie Oertli: taking an active role with organ donation

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Rev. Oran Lee, Staff Chaplain; Board Certified Chaplain

Oran Lee Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute: Oran Lee
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Oran Lee Chaplain

Oran Lee, Chaplain

Oran Lee is a Board Certified Chaplain at INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center, working mainly organ donation and with the transplant team. He has served as a chaplain at INTEGRIS Baptist since 1992.

Oran has been board certified with the Association of Professional Chaplains since February 1996. For several years he served as the state certification chairman for that organization.

He has worked with the transplant program since the inception of the pediatric transplant program. His work was mainly with pediatric patients, until 2001 when adult transplantation was added to his responsibilities.

Oran attended Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas where he earned his undergraduate degree in family relations in 1978. He received his master of divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas in 1983. Following his graduation he served in the local parish, first as an associate pastor of youth, and then serving as the pastor of two congregations.

Before coming to INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center, Oran did two years of clinical training in pastoral care at the Oklahoma Health Center. While doing his clinical work, he served as a chaplain at Children's Hospital for one and a half year, and then six months as a chaplain in a chemical dependency unit.

Oran currently serves as the chair of INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center's Organ Donation Advisory council, which seeks to promote donor awareness and to improve the organ donation process. He is also a board member of the Hope Transplant Support Group.

Oran has authored an article entitled, "The Spiritual Dimensions of Organ Transplantation" which was published in 2003 in Chaplaincy Today, a quarterly publication of the Association Of Professional Chaplains.

Oran Lee Chaplain