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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.

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Summer 2022 public comment is open Aug. 3 to Sept. 28

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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.

Stories of hope

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Jerry Cahill: To the Brink and back after lung, liver, and kidney transplants

A young man’s life allowed me to continue mine. How could I do anything but honor his kindness and love by living my life to the fullest?

Jaclyn Smith: I woke up in another world

There’s so much more to my story and I’d love to one day try to bring awareness to ICU delirium and how serious it can be.

Wes Hawkins: A second chance at life with PRIDE

Without my transplant and donor, I wouldn’t be here to write this, and I would have died living a lie. This month will be the first Pride Month I get to openly celebrate and enjoy.