Welcome to Team Pittsburgh's Website

New Announcements:

• Games Announcements:
   
  • Make sure to send all of your photos from the Games to teampittsburgh@teampittsburgh.org so they can be posted to the website!
     
  • Check for the latest photos and results from the 2008 U.S. Transplant Games.
     
  • Download the NKF's new online version of Transplant Chronicles. This issue contains hyperlinks that you can click on with your computer mouse to take you to supportive and educational Web sites or to continuations of articles. Download the Spring 2008 Transplant Chronicles.
     
  • Please download the following exercise/warm-up instructions from our trainer, Chris Wells. Download Document 1, Document 2, Document 3, Document 4
    
     
• Team announcements:
   
  • View Photos from the Donor Appreciation Dinner and the 2007 Team Pittsburgh Fashion Show. View them here!
  • The photos from the Bowling Fundraiser at the Pittsburgh Athletic Association have been posted! View them here!
  • The new Team Pittsburgh membership form for the 2008 US Transplant Games is now available. Download form
  • For all of the Team's 2006 History and Photos please visit the 2006 History Page!

There are plenty of Sarris Candy bars available in Shelley's office in C900. Do you know of a location willing to display a case of Team Pittsburgh labeled Sarris Candy bars? This is a big fundraiser for the Team. Milk chocolate, peanut butter, crisp, almond, and pretzel rods are available for only $ 1.00 each.

Who is Team Pittsburgh?

We are the transplant recipient athletes, donor family members, living donors, families, friends, health care professionals, and spectators from Western Pennsylvania & Northern West Virginia communities who will proudly represent this region at the 2008 U.S. Transplant Games.

We may be your family member, friend, neighbor, or co-worker.  We have survived a life-threatening illness or tragedy with high hopes to help others by raising national awareness of both the successes of transplantation and the desperate need for life-saving organ donors through our participation in the upcoming U.S. Transplant Games.  We are committed to this cause in order to help those who await their “gift of life”.  

What are "The Games?"

The U.S. Transplant Games is a four-day athletic competition among recipients of all organ and bone marrow transplants held every two years at sites all over the continental U.S.  The Games consist of 12 sports and 41 events.

As much as this very special event is an athletic competition that calls attention to the success of organ and bone marrow transplantation, it is also an incredible celebration of life among recipients, their families and friends.  Transplant recipients who do not physically qualify to compete are encouraged to join the local team and attend the Games as spectators so they can be a part of this gathering of recipients.  

The purposes of the U.S. Transplant Games are:

• To demonstrate to our nation’s public the collective and individual successes of the life-restoring therapy of organ and bone marrow transplantation
• To use the mass media to promote the success of organ donation and transplantation and to call attention to the dire need for organ donation through events and support activities before, during, and after the event
• To contribute to the successful rehabilitation of our nation's transplant patient community

To involve the entire transplant community--including it’s physicians, health care professionals, patients, donor families and related organizations--in a worldwide collaborative effort for the benefit of organ donation awareness