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LEARN HOW YOU CAN HELP

Gary needs your help. Diabetes has robbed Gary of his kidneys and he needs a donor now!

For any questions or concerns, you can contact a team member of the Miami Transplant Institute at UHealth/Jackson at 305-355-5000.

ARE YOU A POTENTIAL DONOR?

Find out by going to one of these two transplant centers where Gary is listed:

  1. Miami Transplant Institute. Visit the following website MTIlivingdonor.org

2. Hackensack Meridian Health – Division or Organ Transplantation. Visit the following website https://hmh.donorscreen.org/register/now. Please refer any questions to Maria Dorkofikis, BSN, MSN, CNN, Pre-Transplant Organ Coordinator at 551-996-4856 or via email maria.dorkofikis@hmhn.org or, Marian Charlton, SRN, RN-CCTC, Clinical Manager, Living Donor, Kidney Paired Donation & Outreach Programs 551-996-5617 or via email marian.charlton@hmhn.org

You don’t have to be a perfect match to be Gary’s donor. UM has a Paired Kidney Exchange Program that can identify donor recipient pairs in a similar circumstance and exchange the donor kidney to achieve a compatible match for transplantation. Learn more below.

Miami Transplant Institute’s Paired Kidney Exchange Program

The Miami Transplant Institute’s Paired Kidney Exchange Program is a live donor exchange program maintained by the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital. The goal of the Exchange Program is to increase live kidney donor transplants by identifying compatible donor-recipient pairs. Participants of the Exchange Program include individuals who wish to donate a kidney to a particular potential recipient but cannot do so because of an incompatible blood type or crossmatch test. The Exchange Program seeks to identify donor recipient pairs in a similar circumstance and exchange the donor kidney to achieve a compatible match for transplantation.

Visit the National Kidney Foundation’s website here.