If you are not available during those times, please e-mail the Registry and we can arrange to have you go to a doctor in the Chicago area to be tested.

In 2005 the Ahepa Bone Marrow Donor Registry completed 15 donor drives that added 1,364 persons to our database.  We now have almost 8000 active donors.  In 2004 we had a total of 52 requests for further testing from our database.  In 2005 we had 111 requests.  We ARE providing help to those afflicted with leukemia.

In 2005 drives were held at the YAL Conference in Rosemont, IL, St. John’s Cathedral, Tenafly, NJ, Fordham University, Bronx, NY, Ss. Constantine & Helen, Palos Hills, IL, St. John Chrisostoma Monastery, Kildeer, IL, Transfiguration in Ogden, UT, Taxiarchae Archangels in Watertown, MA, Plantation, FL, the Ahepa Convention in Boston, MA, St. Haralambos Festival, Niles, IL, St. Sophia’s Festival, Los Angeles, CA, Fordham University again, Astoria, NY at the Pontion Society, St. Nicholas in Flushing, NY, and Assumption in Elkins Park, PA.

So far this year we have held drives at St. Paul in North Royalton, OH, and in Jacksonville, FL.

Upcoming Drives:  In April we will be at St. Mark’s in Boca Raton, FL and at Oak Park, IL

Kit Testing:  If you wish to be tested by receiving a kit at home please download the consent form (consent/medical history form), complete both pages and send it to the address for the Donor Activity Headquarters at 12 Lexington Drive, Livingston, NJ 07039.  We must ask that you send a check made out to the Ahepa BMDR in the amount of $70 to receive a kit.

After you are tested and we receive your results, we will reimburse you whatever portion of that fee that you ask.  We regret that we have to ask for the “upfront” money, but, some people never bother to be tested after receiving the kit and the Registry is then obligated to pay for that kit.  We hope that you would permit us to keep the $70 to pay for other testing, however, we WILL refund all of it if you wish.