Through our affiliation with Gift of Life Donor Program (GLDP), one of the oldest and most active OPOs in the United States, Gift of Life Institute has the unique ability to provide real-time and real-world educational experience to international visitors, having hosted health professionals from over 35 countries including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Mexico, the Philippines, and United Arab Emirates. GLDP evaluates over 3,500 ventilator dependent cases each year. In 2022, Gift of Life Donor Program coordinated the most organ donors and organs for transplant in the United States for the 15th consecutive year, coordinating 690 organ donors, resulting in 1,744 transplants (averaging 61 donors per million). In 2022, GLDP also recovered tissue from over 2,400 donors, including nearly 1,348 musculoskeletal donors, providing learners with many opportunities to observe and participate in the process.

Mini Fellowship in Organ Donation: Combining observational learning with innovative, skill-based training, this two-week fellowship takes place at Gift of Life Donor Program’s headquarters in Philadelphia (401 N. 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123) and is specifically designed to increase the donation professional’s knowledge about donation and best practices of Gift of Life, the highest performing and largest organ procurement organization (OPO) in the U.S. To request an application, please contact Theresa Daly at tdaly@giftoflifeinstitute.org.

Click here to read about Pallavi Kumar’s (Executive Director of MOHAN Foundation, India) experience as a participant in our mini-fellowship program.