YOU HAVE THE POWER TO SAVE LIVES. PLEDGE AND REGISTER TODAY

Follow us to learn more about organ donation and our national efforts to raise awareness about the critical need for donated organs. We are finding inspiration in unexpected places.

BECAUSE ORGAN & TISSUE DONATION MATTERS

There are over 113,000 Americans waiting for a life-saving transplant. Registering takes only a few minutes. Please encourage your family, friends and colleagues to pledge the "gift of life" by signing up at your State's donor registry. Click HERE to learn how. Californians, please visit Donate Life California.

Our Pledge Life Memorial, "Celebrate Life...Remembrance". We are pledging to HONOR, remember and celebrate the lives of donors, transplant recipients, donation and transplant community members. Will you PLEDGE with us to do the same?
DL Life Logo April 27,2012 - - - - 113,953 AMERICANS ARE CANDIDATES ON THE UNOS TRANSPLANT WAIT LIST DL Life Logo 91,996 waiting for a kidney DL Life Logo 16,098 waiting for a liver DL Life Logo 1,269 waiting for a pancreasDL Life Logo 2,153 waiting for a Kidney-PancreasDL Life Logo 3,172 waiting for a heartDL Life Logo 1,632 waiting for a lungDL Life Logo 52 waiting for a heart-lungDL Life Logo 278 waiting for small bowelDL Life Logo One organ donor has the opportunity to save up to 8 lives DL Life Logo One tissue donor has the opportunity to save and -or enhance the lives of 50 or more individuals DL Life Logo You have the power to SAVE Lives by becoming an organ, eye and tissue donor, so what are you waiting for? To learn how to register click HEREDL Life Logo

Monday, March 29, 2010

NATIONAL DONATE LIFE MONTH-FLORIDA-JOIN UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA IN CELEBRATING NATION PUBLIC HEALTH WEEK - ORGAN DONOR AWARENESS

The University of South Florida College of Public Health will host a variety of free activities for the USF community and the public during National Public Health Week, April 5-11.

The week kicks off 4:30 p.m. on Monday, April 5, with a Global Health Career Night, including an informal panel discussion led by local experts in global health and tropical medicine, and a 6 p.m. screening of the video "Karl M. Johnson, MD: Life and Legend of a Leader in Tropical Virology." The event will be held in the COPH Sam Bell Auditorium.

The community is invited to participate in a blood drive (Florida Blood Services), and register for the National Marrow Donor Program and/or organ, tissue and/or eye donation (Donate Life Florida) during Give Life Day, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday, April 8, at the College of Public Health.

The week culminates Friday, April 9, with tours of the College of Public Health's environmental and occupational health research laboratories by the college's doctoral students.

0 COMMENTS: