Jul 28, 2022 | News, Press, Press Releases
Have you ever wanted to do something to help others but couldn’t decide where to start, how to help, or whom to help? Like most donors, you want your financial donation to make a real difference in someone’s life . . . to have a direct impact, personally. However,...
Jul 25, 2022 | News, Press, Press Releases
Kim Lute is the Regional Marketing Manager for Morehouse School of Medicine’s Cardiovascular Research Institute. Before joining Morehouse, Ms. Lute worked as Peabody and DuPont award-winning journalist for CNN International. She later wrote for the Huffington Post...
Jun 29, 2022 | News, Press, Press Releases
“Sometimes you need to walk away from who you are to find who you are to become. That’s where I am.” — Lisa Schaffner in 2009 about her choice to leave broadcast journalism after over two decades as a news anchor for a position with UNOS. When joining...
Jun 8, 2022 | News, Press, Press Releases
Initially, no other university hospital equipped to perform an ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation) was able to accept and admit 22-year-old Lexi Lester. Like many hospitals facing sporadic bed shortages across the United States, the hospitals contacted for...
May 23, 2022 | News, Press, Press Releases
(Above Photo) Kidney Donor Athletes’ One Kidney Climb. Twenty-two kidney donors climbed to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to promote living donor organ transplants. Our society is accustomed to complete strangers donating gifts to people they do...
May 13, 2022 | News, Press, Press Releases
According to Michigan Medicine’s Inherited Kidney Diseases Clinic, more than 60 genetic diseases are currently known to directly or indirectly affect the kidneys. Inherited kidney conditions range from relatively common conditions to very rare syndromes. The clinic...
