Transplant Community Coalition June 2022 Newsletter

CALL TO ACTION

We’re Listening: Take our Survey!

We are excited to share that we have launched a survey opportunity to better understand the unmet needs of the transplant and donation community. Please consider taking a few minutes to complete this brief survey to help inform our resource development.

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MEMBER FEATURE

A COTA Dad Gives Son a Portion of His Liver

June is a month full of family and fun, especially on the third weekend of the month when families gather to celebrate dads. Father’s Day has become a special holiday for the Cole family of Upper Marlboro, Maryland. But this year it has even greater significance as the family of three will celebrate Father’s Day together, thanks to a life-saving liver transplant from Daddy Brandon to Baby Cairo just 18 months ago.

Read the story from the Children’s Organ Transplant Association

This machine could make many more livers available for transplant

Swiss researchers have created a tool that could store a liver for up to 10 days outside a body and still keep it viable for transplant — transforming a decades-old process.

Read the Washington Post Article

FEATURED EVENT

Transplant Games of America: San Diego 2022

Every two years the Transplant Games of America gathers together thousands of transplant recipients, living donors, donor families, individuals on the waiting list, caregivers, transplant professionals, supporters and spectators for the world’s largest celebration of life. During this truly unique and inspiring week, attendees engage with one another to share their stories, honor living donors and donor families, and highlight the importance of organ, eye, and tissue donation. In addition, living donors and recipients showcase the success of transplantation by competing in over twenty athletic and recreational competitions.

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