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Peer-Based Education for Pre-Transplant Patients and Living Donors
On September 12, 2006, the New York Center for Liver Transplantation was awarded a three-year research grant by the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Division of Transplantation (HRSA/DoT) entitled “Increasing Liver Donation through Peer-Developed Education.”  The grant project looks to increase the information available to living liver donors in five of the transplant centers in New York State by using peer-developed educational materials shared by living liver donors. 

The first of its kind, “Increasing Liver Donation through Peer-Developed Education,” will enable pre-transplant patients and their loved ones to have access to resources and educational materials about the impacts of the living liver donation process from the perspectives of past living liver donors.

The proposed project is an outgrowth of a Department of Health mandated program in New York State; where quality-of-life of living liver donors is tracked post donation through a self-administered Living Liver Donor Post-Donation Survey. This project will entail using general information from the survey to develop and implement the educational intervention with pre-transplant patients and living liver donors.



The project has been implemented at five liver programs in New York:
  • Mount Sinai Medical Center
  • New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia
  • New York University Hospitals Center
  • University of Rochester-Strong Memorial Hospital
  • Westchester Medical Center

For more information, please contact Samantha D'Angelo, Project Manager, at (518) 533-7877 ext. 2.