U~t San Diego Community Spotlight Wsradio.com

Diane Brockington, Executive Director of the John Brockington Foundation, and Founder of Women Encouraging Living Donation (WELD), talks about her Foundation’s mission to increase, encourage and support living organ donations. Brockington is joined by Tammy Wright, Transplant Coordinator for Sharp Healthcare Kidney and Pancreas Transplant, and Virginia Sankey, a kidney donor and advocate for WELD. Wright discusses the need for organ donors in the U.S. and the family voucher program for “live” kidney donation. Sankey discusses the reasons why she chose to donate one of her kidneys to a stranger and the support she received from WELD during the organ transplant process.