Summary
PROJECT SUMMARY Nearly 100,000 patients with kidney failure in the US await kidney transplantation. Living donation reduces the wait and offers superior survival compared with deceased donation. Yet only 6,000 living kidney donations are achieved every year with a substantial decline in donation among biologically related donors in across race/ethnicity. While prior programs were associated with a 6-fold increase in donor referral, efforts to convert donor candidates to donor nephrectomy have been largely unsuccessful. Access to a transplant center is a key barrier to engagement of donor candi
