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.
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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
Mubo Ojo: Thriving beyond diagnosis
I’m a witness that one is able to thrive beyond diagnosis, and it doesn’t have to be the end of our existence.
Kathalina: To my kidney donor
My life is forever changed because someone decided to make the selfless decision of becoming a donor.
Jen DeBouver: Liver recipient
Because of my donor’s selfless decision to be an organ donor, I have a second chance at life and am living life to the fullest.
Webinars
On-demand webinars about issues that matter to patients and their loved ones.
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
New lung allocation policy in effect
Effective March 9, 2023, the OPTN launched a new policy for matching lung transplant candidates with organs from deceased donors.
2022 organ transplants again set annual records
Total kidney transplants exceeded 25,000 for the first year ever; annual records also set for liver, heart and lung transplants.
Medicare Part B benefit available for kidney recipients
Medicare Part B Immunosuppressive Drug Benefit As UNOS Ambassadors, we wanted to let you know about a new benefit available to eligible kidney recipients through Medicare Part B. This is a benefit that has been in the works for years, and we wanted to provide some...
