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National Minority Donor Awareness Month

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“National Minority Donor Awareness Month is a collaborative initiative of the National Organ, Eye and Tissue Donation Multicultural Action Group (NMAG) to save and improve the quality of life of diverse communities by creating a positive culture for organ, eye and tissue donation. National Minority Donor Awareness Month stems from National Minority Donor Awareness Week, founded in 1996 by the National Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program (MOTTEP) to bring heightened awareness to donation and transplantation in multicultural communities – focusing primarily on African American, Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander and Native American communities.”

Learn more about upcoming events, here.

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‘Amazing’ recovery of donations, transplant rate seen during pandemic

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Organ donation and kidney transplants have made an “amazing” recovery from the worst days of the pandemic, a speaker said here, with more than 33,000 kidney transplants performed in 2020.

“There were some parts of the Northeast where there were zero living donor transplants done for weeks,” Matthew Cooper, MD, director of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation at Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute and professor of surgery at Georgetown University School of Medicine, said during a presentation at the virtual National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings. “It was amazing how the country regained … the key was getting organs to areas where transplants could happen.”

Read the full article, here.

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NASCAR Driver Races to Shine Light on Organ Donations

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“A NASCAR driver is racing to call attention to an issue close to his heart – organ donations.
Joey Gase raced Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth in the Autotrader Echopark Automotive 500.
Gase’s hood was covered with handprints from the families of organ donors — and those whose lives they saved.”

Watch the interview and read the full story, here.

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