Employees June 24, 2010
Transplantation fair builds awareness, encourages donors
Yale-New Haven Hospital and Sukru Emre, MD, director of the Yale-New Haven Transplantation Center, hosted a transplantation and organ donation awareness fair on the New Haven Green on Saturday, May 15 to share information on organ and tissue donation and encourage guests to register as donors. At the event, several former transplant patients shared their first-hand experiences and appealed for people to join the donor registry. An impressive 87 guests signed up to be organ donors at the fair. Pictured at the event are Yale-New Haven Transplantation Center staff members, from left, Maureen Ghiroli, RN, pediatric liver transplant nurse coordinator; Nancy Edgington, kidney transplant social worker; and Precious Williams, kidney transplant associate coordinator.
