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Below are a few news stories and videos featuring the UCLA Kidney Exchange program

'Gift certificate' enables kidney donation when convenient and transplant when needed

'Gift certificate' enables kidney donation when convenient and transplant when needed.  

An innovative organ donation gift certificate program initiated at UCLA has started to spread to other transplant programs across the United States. Read more »


A Kidney Is Always Pink! Dr. Jeffrey Veale On The Young Turks

A Kidney Is Always Pink! Dr. Jeffrey Veale On The Young Turks

Ana Kasparian of Young Turks interviews Dr. Jeffrey Veale and discuss how the Kidney Exchange program brings people from different backgrounds together regardless of the color of their skins. Read more »


Dr. Jeffrey Veale Featured on Hallmark Channel

Featured on Hallmark Channel: Dr. Jeffrey Veale Raises Awareness for "Paying it Forward" Through the Selfless Act of Kidney Donation.

Video on Hallmark Channel »


UCLA Patients Featured in The Chain Documentary


Paying It Forward: Woman’s Donated Kidney Will Not Only Save Sister’s Life, But Dozens More

An effort to save one life has led to a chain of events that changed 22 others. CBS2’s Lisa Sigell was there Tuesday as two sisters rolled into surgery at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center: one to save the life of a total stranger, the other to receive the gift of a new life through a program called a kidney chain. Link to full story on cbslocal.com »


Featured on The Doctors: Life-Saving Kidney Swap

Giving the gift of life: A man and woman who donated kidneys to save each other's spouses meet for the first time on The Doctors' stage!


Featured on The Doctors: One Man’s Kidney Donation Launched a Life-saving Chain Reaction

The Doctors TV featured the UCLA Kidney Exchange Program along with donors and recipients from the Nick Damon Kidney Chain. Dr. Jeffrey Veale explains the process and how to get involved.

Video courtesy of The Doctors TV »


Dr. Veale on The Doctors Show

How a Kidney Chain Works

Full story on The Doctors TV »


Featured on NBC LA: UCLA Kidney Exchange Program "Opens Floodgates" to Transplants for Hundreds of Patients

Link to full story on NBC »


Featured on KTLA 5: Kidney Transplant Donors Reunite With Recipients in Westwood

Link to full story on KTLA »


Featured on CBS LA: UCLA Kidney Transplant Recipients, Donors Unite For Holiday Celebration

Link to full story on CBS »


Featured on Tavis Talks with Tavis Smiley

Tavis Smiley interviews four patients involved in a massive kidney swap and the doctor who organized it.

Link to Tavis Talks radio interview » 


Featured in the New York Times: 60 Lives, 30 Kidneys, All Linked

N.Y. Times Showcases Massive Kidney-Exchange Chain
The Feb. 19 New York Times ran a front-page article on the longest paired U.S. kidney exchange chain to date, involving 30 kidneys and 60 people across the country.  Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center's kidney transplant team handled 16 of the patients, the largest number of all hospitals participating.  Dr. Jeffrey Veale, assistant professor-in-residence of urology and director of UCLA's donor exchange program, was quoted. Link to full article on the New York Times »


Featured on ABC:  'Kidney Chains' Connect donors, patients

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Featured on the Wall Street Journal: 'Daisy Chain' Strategy Increases Kidney Donors

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Two altruistic donors launch rare kidney transplant chains at UCLA

Harry Damon, the firefighter from Grand Rapids, Mich., and Nicole Lanstrum, who was born and raised in rural Iowa, initiated two kidney transplant chains last week at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center that freed at least six kidney patients — four at UCLA and two in San Francisco — from lives on dialysis. And because their generosity helped initiate similar chains at other transplant centers, the lives of many others will be restored. Lead full story on uclahealth.org » 


First NY-to-LA living-donor transplant chain results in triple kidney transplant

The lives of three Los Angeles-area kidney transplant patients were transformed by one of the West Coast's first three-way living-donor kidney transplant chains, made possible through the generosity of a non-directed, altruistic kidney donor from New York City, it was announced today at a joint news conference. Read full story »


UCLA Medical Center Performs Its First Living Donor Kidney "Swap"

Visit our Frequently Asked Questions page to learn more about the kidney exchange program and to learn how you can get started. 


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 'Gift certificate' enables kidney donation when convenient and transplant when needed.

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