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A 5-year-old’s need for a new kidney led to a paired exchange kidney transplant that united three families from across Minnesota.

The National Kidney Registry (NKR) announced the expansion of Donor Shield by increasing the maximum allowable lost wage reimbursement of four weeks to a maximum of six weeks.

The UW Health Transplant Center performed 64 paired kidney exchanges in 2020, more than any other transplant center in the country.

More than 12,000 people in the U.S. are on the national waiting list to receive a donor liver and about 1 in 5 patients, approximately 2,500 people, will die or become too sick before an organ becomes available. The Mayo Clinic explains living liver donation and who is eligible.

During the 2020 calendar year, 262 patients received kidney and/or pancreas transplants at Wake Forest Baptist Health, which is the highest annual total in the 50-year history of Wake Forest Baptist’s Abdominal Organ Transplant Program.

Amy Infanger had a 1 in 3,000 chance of finding a kidney that her body would accept. Thanks to a living donor transplant chain that spanned across the country, she has a new kidney and a new lease on life.

On December 9, 2020, Gianna Graw saved four lives and became the first patient to make a “good samaritan” kidney donation through Hackensack University Medical Center’s partnership with National Kidney Registry (NKR), an organization that facilitates living donor kidney transplants.

Robert Montgomery, MD, DPhil, a pioneering surgeon and director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, has been appointed chair of the Department of Surgery. He will assume his new post on September 1, 2020.

An interview with Garet Hill, entrepreneur, kidney donor, and Founder/CEO of the National Kidney Registry.

Living donor Lisa Emmott and her husband, living donor and organ recipient, Neil Emmott on the importance of organ donor programs.