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Team Philadelphia is heading to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the 2008 U.S. Transplant Games from July 11-16, 2008! All transplant recipients, donor family members, living donors, family members, friends and transplant professionals from Eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware and Southern New Jersey are welcome to join Team Philadelphia and celebrate the success of transplantation. The Transplant Games is a four-day Olympic-style athletic competition coordinated by the National Kidney Foundation for recipients of organ transplants. The sporting events include: badminton, basketball, bowling, cycling, golf, racquetball, 5K road race, swimming, table tennis, tennis, track & field and volleyball. Since 1990,  the National Kidney Foundation has coordinated the Games open to anyone whose most recent lifesaving solid organ transplant-heart, liver, kidney, lung, intestine, pancreas and/or heterologous bone marrow- and has been functioning for at least six months. As much as the Games is an athletic event that calls attention to the success of organ and tissue transplantation, it is also a celebration of life among recipients, their families, and friends as well as an opportunity to honor our nation’s donors and their family members.

It is anticipated over 7,000 athletes, friends and families, living donors, donor families, health care professionals and spectators will be in attendance at the 2008 U.S. Transplant Games. Athletes have ranged in age from 18 months to 80 years old. Living Donors, donor families and transplant professionals can participate in an array of recognition ceremonies and other special events. The Transplant Games give you the opportunity to meet other transplant recipients, donor families and living donors from around the country, share your transplant story, honor your donor, improve your health and fitness and support the thousands of other patients who are still waiting for their second chance at life.

  Special thanks to Team Philadelphia donors and their families

Team Philadelphia would like to acknowledge and thank all of the donors who gave the gift of life, both living and non-living.  Without their generous gift, many would not be alive today. As V. August Cheatham stated, “ We need to help people capture the energy… the imagination… the miracle of what can happen when someone remembers that in order for there to be a transplant, there needs to be a donor.”  The donors make it all possible for people to live and compete in the U.S. Transplant Games and exemplify the success of transplantation.