Transplant Program Honors Living Donors at Gala
Department of Surgery | University of Colorado School of Medicine Sep 20, 2019
An organ donor speaks at the "Night of Champions" gala
UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital honored living organ donors at its "Night of Champions" gala on September 19, 2019, at Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum. The event brought together donors, recipients, and medical staff in a celebration of one of the most generous and heroic things one person can do for another.
Click the link below to read or watch the story on Fox 31 News (Denver), including remarks from the Department of Surgery's Elizabeth Pomfret, MD, Chief of Transplant Surgery, and the story of organ donor Michelle Hall, who gave part of her liver to a sick child she had never even met.
Article (with Video):
Colorado's living organ donors celebrated as heroes for saving lives (Fox 31 News)