Living Donor

In a rare procedure involving four patients, a surgical team at NewYork-Presbyterian completed a first-of-its-kind transplant in which a recipient got a new liver from a living donor, and their original liver — which did not work properly for them due to a metabolic disorder but was otherwise functional — was split to help two people.

Considering becoming a living organ donor? Transplant experts share a step-by-step process on what’s involved in giving the gift of life.

A pediatric liver specialist shares how she is inspired to volunteer in the Dominican Republic to help bring transplant care to underserved children.

Nurse Practitioner Jo Marie Palazzo was always inspired by the way her mother, Theresa Bullicer, put family first. So, when Theresa needed a kidney transplant, Jo Marie didn’t hesitate to become her living donor.

When Lauren Crupi went into kidney failure and needed a transplant, her colleague and fellow teacher Mike Daneman stepped up.

When Ethan Glaser needed a liver transplant as a toddler, his father, Chad, stepped up to become his living donor. Twenty years later Ethan is thriving, and they marked the anniversary of the donation with a trip to remember.

In a first-of-its-kind “domino” transplant in infants, cardiac surgeons at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of Children's Hospital of New York performed a heart transplant in one baby, and then transplanted valves from her old heart into another infant — saving two lives and paving the way to save more.

In recognition of National Donate Life Blue & Green Day, organ transplant recipients and donors share the lifesaving impact of organ donation.

When a rare liver disease left Lauren Toby in need of a transplant, her husband, DJ, stepped up to be her living donor.

An NYPD officer needed a kidney transplant. Hundreds of miles away, a woman named Sophia Jackson saw the story on the news and decided to help. Now Jackson is inspiring others with her story of altruistic organ donation.