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- NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia Surgeons Perform First "Ex Vivo" Lung Transplants in New York
- NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center Research Presented at American Transplant Congress
- NYC Area's First Partial-Liver Transplant
- International Leader in Liver Disease and Transplantation Joins NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell as Chief of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation
- Experimental Vaccine Sets Sights on Lung Cancer
- Vitamin E Effective for "Silent" Liver Disease
- Operating Room Radiography to Transform Surgery
- Minimally Invasive Adult Liver Donation for Pediatric Transplantation Available Exclusively at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital
- Beyond the Ice: Technique for Preserving Pre-Transplant Livers Promises to Improve Patient Outcomes and Expand the Organ Pool
- NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia Physician-Scientists Present at 2009 American Transplant Congress (ATC) in Boston
- Mysterious Ailments May Be the Result of Undiagnosed Genetic Defects
- NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Physician-Scientists Present at 2009 American Transplant Congress (ATC) in Boston
- Altruistic Donor Makes NYC's First Reported 6-Way Kidney Transplant Possible
- Artificial Liver May Extend Lives
- First Reported Case in the World:7-Year-Old Girl Has Six Organs Removed for Tumor Surgery
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Transplantation
Organ Donation
About Organ Donation
These pages are designed to guide patients and families through the process of organ donation. Many families are faced with difficult decisions when caring for their loved ones who are gravely ill. We hope to provide some guidance.
Organ Transplant
Program brochure
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open PDF)
The need for organ donors is a matter of growing concern. As organ transplantation outcomes continue to improve, the gap between organ donors and those awaiting transplant widens. On average, 18 people die each day in the United States while waiting for organ transplants. You can make a difference by signing up to become an organ donor.
About UNOS
Organ donation in the United States is administered by the United Network for Organ Sharing, a non-profit, scientific and educational organization that administers the nation's only Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN), established by the U.S. Congress in 1984.
Benjamin Samstein, M.D.
discusses statistics and
the future of living donor
liver transplants.
watch video
Additional Information
- View current statistics about the gap in supply and demand for organs in the United States and New York area on this page of the New York Organ Donor Network web site.
- View Referral Information for Medical Professionals (PDF format)
Acknowledgment
The information in these pages about organ donation was created by Jennifer A. Frontera, M.D., an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Neurosurgery and Neurology at Mount Sinai Medical Center. It was also reviewed by Maria Sabeta and Martin Woolf at the New York Organ Donor Network. NewYork-Presbyterian greatly appreciates their assistance.
