About becoming a donor
Currently, 2,000 fellow Tennesseans are waiting for a life-saving organ transplant. Nationally, over 108,000 Americans are on the wait list. That's enough to fill Vanderbilt Stadium almost three times.
Tennesseans can register to be an organ and tissue donor by simply checking yes on your driver's license application or registering at tndonorregistry.org. Be sure to talk to your family about saving lives.
Dawn is the Public Education Coordinator for Tennessee Donor Services in Chattanooga. She works to spread the message of donation and enlighten the public about the importance and benefits of this lifesaving gift. Dawn answers basic questions about transplants, the donation process and becoming a donor. Learn more about the Tennessee Donor Registry and how you can help. To learn more about Tennessee Donor Services, please visit: 
Gerry started smoking when he was just a boy, long before there was any knowledge of associated health risks. He couldn’t know then that it would nearly cost him being able to walk his daughter down the aisle or see her graduate from medical school. However, thanks to the generosity of others, he was able to do just that. Today, Gerry is grateful for every day and each of the donors who gave him such a precious gift, the Gift of Life.
Madan Jagasia, M.D., is the Director of the Outpatient Transplant Program at the Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center. Dr. Jagasia explains bone marrow and blood stem cell transplantation and what diseases are treated with these types of transplantation. Learn more about the new research being done in this area and how someone can register as a potential bone or stem cell donor. To learn more about blood and marrow transplant, please visit: Donate Life Vanderbilt
Donate Life Vanderbilt 3rd Annual Flag Raising Ceremony and Gift of Life Celebration 4 p.m. Thursday, April 19, to be held at the flag pole across from Langford Auditorium, in the Medical Center courtyard
If you have been affected by organ and tissue donation and would like to share your story, please contact Meredith Potts at meredith.potts@vanderbilt.edu.
