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Improving Living Kidney Donation & Transplantation

The National Kidney Registry is dedicated to increasing living kidney donation, ensuring better donor-recipient matches, and providing comprehensive support and protections for living donors.

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Information for Donors

What is Donor Shield?

Timothy Wan, Esq., NKR General Counsel and Chief Litigator

Donor Shield is a comprehensive suite of support and protections offered to living kidney and liver donors by the National Kidney Registry. It includes living donor financial assistance for donation-related expenses not covered by insurance, as well as a wide range of help before, during, and after donation to make the donation process as easy, convenient, and safe as possible.

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Kidney Donor Stories

My Kidney Donation Story: Vince Golden

Vince Golden

I’ve been a registered dietitian for over 20 years, working in an outpatient dialysis clinic and also seeing patients in the earlier stages of kidney disease at a nephrologist’s office. I’ve witnessed firsthand the challenges faced by patients who go through dialysis—the fatigue, the feeling of being run down, and the toll it takes on their lives.

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