Pay-It-Forward Kidney Transplant Program

Town Hall Offers Answers About Kidney Donation

To learn more about Loyola’s newly introduced Pay-It-Forward Kidney Transplant Program - a living-donor program that allows recipients with incompatible donors to take part in national donor chains, cutting patient wait times for kidney transplant - plan to attend a special Town Hall meeting at the Stritch School of Medicine, room 170 on the Loyola Medical Center campus, 2160 S. First Ave., Maywood.

Convenient parking is available in parking lot "A".

Town Hall meetings will be held at 5:30 p.m. on the third Tuesday of every month:

• January 18
• February 15
• March 15
• April 19
• May 17
• June 21
• July 19
• August 16
• September 20
• October 18
• November 15
• December 20

This program is intended for kidney donors, recipients, family members and would-be Good Samaritan donors who want more information about this new program.   If you are not able to attend, but you saw the news coverage about this program and are interested to learn more, please call our kidney transplant coordinator at (708) 216-3453 weekdays for information. 

Loyola in the News:

For the first time, altruistic donor Christina Lamb meets transplant recipient Robert Rylko at the press conference introducing the Pay-It-Forward Donation Kidney Transplant Program.

• Pay-It-Forward kidney transplant program press conference video
• "Loyola program a radical shift in living donor kidney transplants"
• The Chicago Tribune
• NBC Channel 5
• WGN Channel 9
• WLS Channel 7
• Fox Channel 32