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      "text": "“Yeah, I interacted with Waleed...they often invite us and all transplant programs that they work with to these meetings near their headquarters or whatever. Or they’ll have meetings at transplant conferences, and they’ll even offer to pay for us to go. I have to always turn it down because [our center] will not allow me to accept anything from a vendor but they do pay for other people to go. And so, I think I probably would interact with him more if I attended those meetings. But I don’t...I told them I’m not going to be at that meeting because I can’t travel right now. And they offered to reimburse me or pay for my commercial flight and registration for the meeting but I declined that. And then, they had the in-person meeting at their headquarters, and I declined the invitation because of the travel, and they offered again to pay for the cost of my travel ticket. It never got past that.” – Transplant administrator",
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