Gift of Life Historical Timeline: Leadership and Success
Now and throughout its 50 years of service, Gift of Life Donor Program has continued to be internationally recognized for leadership, clinical excellence and innovation in donation and transplantation. Here are some of our historic achievements and milestones, as well as some of the groundbreaking advances in the field. While science continues to advance, it is essential human kindness and generosity that makes life-saving transplants possible.
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In 1974, the Greater Delaware Valley Society of Transplant Surgeons established the Delaware Valley Transplant Program (DVTP), later to become known as Gift of Life Donor Program.
Since its founding, Gift of Life has been widely recognized as a leader in the fast-changing field of organ and tissue donation and transplantation. We’ve pioneered legislative policies, embraced clinical innovations and developed best practices that are the gold standard for coordinating life-saving and life-enhancing gifts.
Gift of Life Donor Program is one of the nation’s leading organ procurement organizations (OPO), coordinating more than 59,000 organs and more than two million tissue transplants since 1974 thanks to our generous community, dedicated hospital partners, tireless world-class staff and enthusiastic volunteer ambassadors.