Did you know?

• To date 71,000 people in America are on a waiting list for an organ
• 16 people die every day waiting for an organ.
• Every 14 minutes a new name is added to a transplant waiting list.
• Successful organ transplants can extend a recipient's life by 20+ yrs.
• In 1999, the number of donors was at a 12 year low.
• Currently, there is a 3 to 1 ratio of between waiting patients and life-saving organ donations

You could help save lives!

WHEN:
November 5 — November 16

WHERE:
West Mall from 10a-2p

HOW:
Just come by the Dean's Scholars table in the West Mall and SIGN up. Then, keep the card in your wallet. Its takes only a few seconds to sign up and give someone the opportunity for a lifetime.

Sponsored by:

The Dean's Scholars Honors Program of the College of Natural Sciences is looking
to create a database of potential UT donors in efforts to combat the growing need for organ donors.

For more Information on Organ Donation and Tissue Transplantation, visit these sites:

Organ Donation
http://www.organdonor.gov/
Created by the US Health Resources and Services Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services.

TransWeb: Transplantation and Donation
http://www.transweb.org/default.htm
Information on organ and tissue transplantation and donation. It includes answers to common questions, information about donation, new developments in transplantation, and much more.

Life Gift Organ Donation Center
http://www.lifegift.org/
LifeGift's mission is to provide community benefit by ethically, effectively and efficiently recovering appropriately transplantable organs and tissue to give the gift of life.

United Network for Organ Sharing
http://www.unos.org/frame_Default.asp
UNOS is the private, non-profit organization dedicated to saving lives by marshalling the medical, scientific, public policy and technological resources needed to facilitate every organ transplant performed in the United States.

"Family hopes to trade for a type-O kidney"
http://www.pressgazettenews.com/archive/articles/0009/0930ckidney.html
He has three missions: save his sister's life, save another person who needs a kidney and raise awareness of the need for organ donors.

California Transplant Donor Network (CTDN)
http://www.ctdn.org/
CTDN is the liason between people needing organ and tissue transplants and those donating organs and tissues after death.