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Living Donor Fundraiser Exceeds $10,000!

September 14, 2011

In follow-up to a post from Marla Blackwell on living kidney donation, we are grateful to report that the 4th annual ‘Night with Nashville’ concert and fundraiser reached a new milestone by raising more than $10,000 on September 8! Guests partied the night away to country tunes from recording artists Megan Mullins and James Wesley, [...]

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Annual Concert “Rocks” for Living Donor Clinic

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By Marla Blackwell Editor’s Note: In 2008, Marla Blackwell donated a kidney to her mother.  During her first visit to UMMC, her social worker put her in touch with Lee Adams, who had donated a kidney the year before.  Adams is also the person who created the UMMC Living Donor Follow-Up Clinic Annual Benefit Concert.  [...]

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The Ultimate Match Game: Donors and Recipients in Triple Kidney Swap Meet for the First Time

July 8, 2011

There were plenty of hugs to go around when six patients involved in a triple kidney swap conducted at the University of Maryland Medical Center met for the first time on July 8, 2011. Each recipient originally came to the hospital with an intended donor: a spouse, a sibling and a church friend. However, when [...]

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Donate Life: A Transplant Surgeon’s Powerful and Personal Plea

Dr. Matthew Cooper April 4, 2011

By Matthew Cooper, M.D. Director of Kidney Transplantation Recent world events are a powerful reminder of life’s uncertainty. Even if everything seems fine today, none of us really knows what dramatic changes or tragic circumstances we might face tomorrow. The more than 110,000 Americans waiting for lifesaving organ transplants feel the pain of an uncertain [...]

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A “Transplant Miracle”

March 10, 2011

Twenty-six-year-old Drew Sollenberger wanted to donate a kidney. Two-year-old Ethan Hatton needed a new kidney to live. Their separate stories became one thanks to the University of Maryland Medical Center, whose doctors removed one of Drew’s kidneys and inserted it in Ethan on January 19, 2011. Watch the videos below to learn the whole story [...]

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Becoming A Non-Directed Kidney Donor

February 1, 2011
Drew Sollenberger

This four-minute video features living kidney donor Drew Sollenberger discussing why he felt it was important for him to become a non-directed donor. A non-directed donor is an individual who expresses a desire to donate one of his or her kidneys, but who does not have a recipient to receive the organ. Dr. Matthew Cooper, [...]

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Father Gives Son the Gift (Kidney) of Life

December 6, 2010
Carlos Chambers

On October 28, 2009, Carlos Chambers received a life-saving kidney transplant that put an end to his need for continuous dialysis treatments and gave him back the strength and energy he had before being diagnosed with kidney failure just a few years ago. What made this life-saving gift even more special to Carlos was that [...]

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Kidney Donor’s 3rd Annual Concert to Benefit Living Organ Donor Clinic on August 13

July 30, 2010
Lee Adams

By Lee Adams Editor’s Note: Lee Adams donated a kidney to her sister’s husband in 2007. Shortly thereafter, she decided she wanted to raise money for organ donation. In August 2008 Lee created a fundraising concert to benefit UMMC’s Living Organ Donor Clinic. The third annual fundraising concert — in Fallng Waters, WV — is [...]

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Kidney Donor A Reluctant But Real Hero

May 11, 2010

Ed Behn lost a close friend to kidney failure in 2008, and his sister-in-law has been head of a dialysis unit for 25 years. In short, Behn has seen the devastating effects of kidney failure. What’s unique about Behn, though, is that he did something about it. Behn decided to donate a kidney to a [...]

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Kidney Transplant Turns Business Acquaintances Into “Family”

April 15, 2010

Tony Brady (right) with kidney donor Ken Kuiper. When Ken Kuiper found out that a business acquaintance he saw once a year was on dialysis and needed a new kidney, he took action. He contacted Fernando “Tony” Brady, and found out they shared the same blood type — O positive. Ken, who is from Florida, [...]

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