
Why People Say Yes to Living Donation | EP 42
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Donor Diaries, we sit down with Dr. Amy Waterman, a national leader in transplant health services research and patient engagement at Houston Methodist, to talk abou...
7 Jul 37min

A World Record Kidney: 58 Years and Still Going | EP 41
Send us Fan Mail Denice received her father’s kidney at age 13, decades before modern transplant protocols were common and pediatric dialysis existed. Fifty-eight years later, she is still thriving an...
2 Jun 36min

DOVE: Changing How Veterans Find Kidney Donors | EP 40
Send us Fan Mail Being told you need a kidney transplant is overwhelming. Being told you need to go find your own living donor while managing dialysis can feel impossible. For many veterans, that is e...
5 Mai 31min

The Transplant Games of America: Where Donation Comes Alive | EP 39
Send us Fan Mail You can’t fully understand organ donation until you see what it makes possible. Parents reaching milestones they once thought they might miss. Grandparents meeting grandchildren. Fami...
7 Apr 36min

Workplace Support That Changes Everything | 38
Send us Fan Mail What if a simple HR policy could help save someone’s life? In this episode, Brooke Iarkowski, Transplant Community Program Manager at the American Society of Transplantation, shares h...
3 Mar 34min

From One Kidney To Many | EP 37
Send us Fan Mail One kidney can change many lives—if we let it start a chain. We sit down with Dr. John Friedewald, transplant nephrologist at Northwestern Medicine, to unpack a breakthrough: using a ...
3 Feb 33min

Choosing Life: Renal Warriors Wilson & Amy | EP 36
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Donor Diaries, we sit down with transplant recipient Wilson Du and living kidney donor Amy McCann, two people whose stories intertwine through determination, commun...
6 Jan 34min

Kidney Pledges, Pet Care, and Paychecks: The Unexpected Support System for Living Donors with the APKD | EP 35
Send us Fan Mail Sue Rees returns to share the revolutionary donor protections offered by the Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation (APKD) that are making kidney donation more accessible and equitable f...
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