Jacksonville Transplant Alliance

The Jacksonville Transplant Alliance is a community of individuals and transplant-related organizations in the Northeast Florida area who are dedicated to providing donor education through social media, community events, and educational forums.

Our goal is to increase the number of registered donors and to help transplant recipients, their families, donor family members, and others within our community become greater ambassadors of tissue and organ donation.  Together, we can save lives, shorten the waiting time for those awaiting organ transplant, and help those in need of a life-changing tissue or cornea transplant.

Register online to be an organ, eye, and tissue donor. Go to www.DonateLifeFlorida.org or www.RegisterMe.org 

The Jacksonville Transplant Alliance board of directors is happy to announce three new board members! 

• Leslie Workman, a living kidney donor, will be joining the board to help us better understand living donation and help us fulfill our goal of working for all donors and recipients.  Thank you, Leslie, for your selfless gift of kidney donation!

• Tamara Brooks, a transplant social worker from Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, will be taking over for Alex Blinder as our representative from Mayo.  We are excited to have Tamara as part of our team, but are sad to lose Alex, who is leaving to spend more time with her family.

• Valerie Callahan, Executive Director of Gabriel House of Care is also joining us, replacing Marguerite Tragnitz as our representative from Gabriel House.  We welcome Valerie and the immense experience she brings with her working with transplant patients.  Her insights and knowledge will prove invaluable as we move forward during the new year.

Thank you to all our volunteer board members for their dedication and service not just to JTA, not just to the organizations they work for, but also to all the transplant patients, living donors, and donor families in the Northeast Florida area.

Observed every year on February 14th, National Donor Day is an observance dedicated to spreading awareness and education about organ, eye and tissue donation. By educating and sharing the Donate Life message, we can each take small steps every day to help save and heal more lives, and honor the donor’s legacy of generosity and compassion. 

National Donor Day is a time to focus on all types of donation—organ, eye, tissue, blood, platelets and marrow. Join us by participating in local events, sharing social media messages and encouraging others to register as donors.

National Donor Day is also a day to recognize those who have given and received the gift of life through organ, eye and tissue donation, are currently waiting for a lifesaving transplant, and those who died waiting because an organ was not donated in time.

In addition to registering to be an organ, eye and tissue donor or contributing to the DLA cause, you can also download Donate Life America's National Donor Day images and Donor Day Valentine’s Cards to raise awareness about donation throughout social media—link these images to other resources for your friends and followers to utilize within your local and online communities.

The Donate Life America Tribute Wall is one way to honor loved ones on National Donor Day. You can also read through their Stories of Hope; inspiring organ, eye and tissue donor and recipient stories.