Tuesday, February 13, 2001

WILMINGTON, NC -- National, state and local individuals will discuss their personal experiences as surgeon, donor, recipient and family members in the panel discussion “Organ Donation: The Power to Save Lives” at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 20, in the UNCW Cameron Hall Auditorium.

Panelists include Jane Smith, the Fayetteville teacher who made national headlines for donating a kidney to a student; Dr. Jimmy Light, director of transplant services at Washington Hospital Center; Michelle Peele, a donor mother who wrote the book Glimpses of God which described her and her daughter’s experience; Renee Miller, communications coordinator at Carolina Donor Services in Durham; John Rice, a kidney recipient and husband of UNCW staff member Helen Rice; and Sharon Duff, a UNCW student whose mother received a heart transplant.



This free event, which is part of the national College Donor Awareness Project “It’s What’s Inside That Counts,” is sponsored by the UNCW Office of the Provost and the Wellness Services Department in the Division of Student Affairs. UNCW is one of two universities this academic year participating in the College Donor Awareness Project, an informational campaign about organ and tissue donation aimed at young people.



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For more information, contact Deborah Haywood at ext. 4137.