Community
Find resources to help you with your transplant journey.
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.
Roxanne advocates for the gift of life through organ donation.
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Why I volunteer
Transplant recipients and professionals volunteer to give back, to learn, to develop policy. Learn about UNOS Ambassadors and other volunteer opportunities
Equity in access
Watch recorded presentation to learn how UNOS is working to increase equity in access to transplants.Stories of hope
Terri Lynne Willis: 29 year liver transplant survivor
Born with a rare metabolic disease, Terri was frequently in the hospital as a child. She thinks about her donor every day.
Valerie Bolt: Eleni the brave
I volunteered to be evaluated and when I learned I was eligible to donate, it was truly one of the happiest moments of my life.
Sarah Ridder: A family’s journey with IPF
Many of us did die from IPF but because of two incredibly loving families our mother was spared the loss of two more children. Without these transplants, our life expectancies were no more than three to four months.
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
César López: Don’t take anything for granted
Thank you to all the people that made me enjoy life again, especially my unknown 20-year-old donor.
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.