By Bibiana Correa, Temple News
Before finally getting a kidney transplant in 2016, Halil Kasimoglu’s mom was on the waiting list for six years.
After watching this process, Kasimoglu, a third-year pharmacy student, decided to join Organ Donation Advocacy in 2018.
“There isn’t a lot of information about organ donation and how patients struggle to even get a glimpse of hope, to even get transplants,” said Kasimoglu, now the organization’s president. “What I can do for so little is just by even talking to people and giving them information makes me just proud of what I’m doing.”
ODA is a student organization at Temple University’s School of Pharmacy that raises awareness and debunks myths about organ donation. On Feb. 21, they won the American Society of Transplantation’s Organ Donation Challenge grant of $125.
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