Reach living donors.

DONOR will help you create a social media post that shares details of your organ failure and need for a live organ donor. Your post will contain contact information for your transplant center for readers to start the evaluation process and/or learn more about living donation. By sharing your story with your social media following, you will have a better chance of identifying a potential living organ donor. Patients who used our app in an early study were 6.6 times more likely to have a potential living donor come forward on their behalf.

Sharing your private health information can be scary and intimidating. DONOR was developed to help patients share their story with friends and family using the broad reach of social media. If you do not feel comfortable sharing your story with your loved ones, you absolutely do not have to.

However, we strongly encourage you to share your post. Donor is a resource that can help you find a living donor faster and more easily. This resource can be the key to helping you feel healthier and allowing you to get back to living a normal life.

No, using DONOR does not move you up on the deceased donor transplant waitlist. Instead, the Donor App will help you find a potential living donor through your online social network. With a living donor, you can undergo living donor transplantation immediately, avoiding the deceased donor waiting time.

Each individual case is different, but most patients would benefit from a potential living donor. Talk to your transplant team to discuss your status on the waitlist.

Each individual case is different, but most patients would benefit from a potential living donor. Talk to your transplant team to discuss your concerns.

No. Unfortunately, patients that are listed for multiple organs are currently not eligible candidates for living donor transplantation. Consequently, DONOR would not apply to patients in need of multiple organs.

Absolutely! There is nothing wrong with having more than one potential living organ donor. After identification of a person interested in living donation, your transplant hospital will evaluate each individual thoroughly to ensure that they are eligible to donate and that donation would be safe for them and for you as the recipient.

Sometimes, interested donors may not able to donate for a lot of different reasons, in which case having more than one potential living organ donor may be in your best interest.

Your transplant hospital will collect the information that you have entered into DONOR and use it to better understand how to improve the experience of the site. Your transplant team will try to make sure that everyone who needs to see your information keeps it confidential - but we cannot guarantee that your information will not be redisclosed. Your private health information is kept protected on the DONOR secure server.

That is OK - they can still be a living organ donor! Have them contact your transplant hospital and express their interest in donating an organ. The transplant team will be able to answer all of your specific questions.

That is OK - they can still be a living organ donor and may still help you get a living donor transplant! Paired donation exchange programs exist to help more patients get transplanted. Have the interested donor contact your transplant hospital and express their interest in donating an organ through an exchange program. The transplant team will be able to answer any questions and start the evaluation process.

Live donor organ transplantation is the best treatment option for patients on the organ transplant waitlist. Transplant candidates generally have better results when they received organs from living donors as compared to organs from deceased donors. Often, transplant organs from living donors last longer than those from deceased donors.