Community
Find resources to help you with your transplant journey.
Roxanne advocates for the gift of life through organ donation.
Join our community of organ transplant candidates, recipients, living donors, families and friends who are interested in learning more about the transplant experience. We’ll provide you with tools and information to help you and your loved ones before, during and after your transplant.
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Why I volunteer
Transplant recipients and transplant professionals volunteer to give back, to learn, to develop policy—all contributing to our national transplant system's strength and growth.
Learn about UNOS Ambassadors and other volunteer opportunities
Stories of hope
Jace: A liver transplant in the midst of a pandemic
After his first birthday he was listed on the transplant registry and after a few months of waiting Jace received his new liver September 10th 2020 because of a deceased donor.
Walter McCants Junior: Dialysis and post transplant
I had a successful transplant in December 2007. It’s been 13 years and so far so good.
Noah Thibodeau: “Live like Noah”
Because he chose to be an organ donor, he has saved the lives of four people
Support groups
Connect with other patients like you.
Contact your donor family
There are important things to know when you decide to contact your donor family.
UNOS Ambassador
Promote organ donation and transplantation.
In the news
Noah Thibodeau: “Live like Noah”
Because he chose to be an organ donor, he has saved the lives of four people
The Gallery at UNOS: Nov. 5 virtual opening of Looking Back
Experience Debra O’Hearn’s journey from diagnosis to survival through her lens.
Matthew Kuchera: The gift of life during COVID-19
To everyone suffering from kidney disease, is on dialysis, waiting for the gift of life, anything. Do not give up hope! You fight the fight hard and understand miracles do happen.