LifeLink Foundation is a non-profit organisation recovering organs and tissue for transplantation across Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, with 700+ staff and five divisions.
LifeLink Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit community service organisation dedicated to the recovery of life-saving and life-enhancing organs and tissue for transplantation therapy. Founded by nephrologist Dr. Dana Shires and a group of innovators, the foundation has operated for more than 40 years and now employs more than 700 professionals across five divisions. Its work is conducted in a sensitive, diligent and compassionate manner, and it collaborates closely with the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS).
The foundation's regional divisions coordinate organ and tissue donation across several states and territories: LifeLink of Florida serves west-central Florida, LifeLink of Georgia covers Georgia and parts of South Carolina, and LifeLink of Puerto Rico serves Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. Two further divisions provide supporting services: the LifeLink Transplantation Immunology Laboratory, which delivers immunology services underpinning organ and tissue transplantation, and the LifeLink Tissue Bank, which is responsible for the recovery and processing of life-enhancing tissue for transplantation therapy.
Technical domains at the foundation include organ and tissue recovery, organ donation coordination, transplantation immunology laboratory services, tissue banking, and clinical outcomes research for post-transplant patients. The organisation also supports research efforts aimed at enhancing the supply of transplantable organs and tissues. Having grown from a small founding team to a workforce of more than 700, it is a mission-driven employer with a long record of continuity across the healthcare, transplantation and clinical laboratory sectors.
