NYC Gazette

NYU Langone Health and LiveOnNY have announced the establishment of the first Advanced Organ Donor Management Fellowship in the United States. This initiative aims to enhance medical education in organ donation, with funding provided by the LiveOnNY Foundation. The $375,000 grant will support a medical trainee for three years as part of NYU Langone’s resident fellowship program.

The fellow will engage in educational activities, clinical rotations, and research within NYU Langone and LiveOnNY across the New York region. The goal is to develop a teaching platform for best practices in organ donation collaboration among various care teams and hospital settings. The fellow will be based at NYU Langone.

“This partnership with LiveOnNY will help build a knowledge ecosystem that can only be achieved through our commitment to continuous learning, which will help both the civic and professional communities transition the act of organ donation from life-ending to life-giving,” said Robert Montgomery, MD, DPhil.

Leonard Achan, RN, MA, ANP stated: “The creation of this groundbreaking fellowship marks a significant step toward advancing the field of organ donation, with the hope that it will one day be recognized as its own discipline.”

The fellowship originated from discussions between Achan and Dr. Montgomery in late 2022 about advancing organ donation as a distinct clinical branch. Similar to how emergency medicine was formalized as a specialty in 1979, this fellowship seeks to transform organ donation through specialized training and innovation.

For more information on applying for the fellowship, contact Jeffrey Thomas at NYU Langone’s Transplant Institute via email at Jeffrey.Thomas@NYULangone.org.

NYU Langone Health is an integrated health system known for high patient outcomes and low mortality rates. It has been ranked by Vizient Inc. as the top comprehensive academic medical center nationwide for three consecutive years. Additionally, U.S. News & World Report recently ranked nine of its clinical specialties among the top five nationally.

The NYU Langone Transplant Institute is recognized for its quality kidney and lung transplantation programs according to federal data. It performs over 600 transplants annually and has high national survival rates for heart and liver transplants.

LiveOnNY is a nonprofit organization focused on saving lives through organ donation within New York City and surrounding counties. Established in 1978, it works closely with hospitals and transplant centers while promoting public awareness about organ donation.