MatchingDonors.com Newsletter - Organ Donor, Organ Transplant, Organ Donor Services,

We now have currently 10130 registered potential organ donors registered on MatchingDonors.com!!

The newly launched MatchingDonors.com Lead Program has already generated hundreds of leads worth million dollars in production to transplant centers, hospitals and practices. Both patients in this newsletter, Rahwa Daniels and Tom Martinez used our lead program to choose JohnÂ’s Hopkins and Dr. Robert Montgomery their transplant center. If you are transplant doctor or represent a transplant center that wishes to receive leads of our patients and donors needing a transplant center please call Jeff McEvoy at 1-800-385-0422 extension # 9. He will help you sign up your transplant center to receive our leads.

If you are a patient or donor that needs to find a transplant center feel free to call David at 781-821-2204 extension # 8 so he can help you find a prescreened transplant center that takes part in our lead program.

MatchingDonors.com now has over 10,000 registered donors, and many patients get their transplant through MatchingDonors.com within six months of signing up on MatchingDonors.com.

Super Bowl bound Tom Brady owes a lot of his success to Tom Martinez, the 68-year-old QB coach from California who’s mentored No. 12 since he was a boy. So it’s no surprise that the star pupil is trying to help his teacher, who’s in failing health and needs a kidney transplant by asking people through the Internet to go to MatchingDonors.com to be tested to see if they are a potential compatible kidney donor to Tom Martinez. "Tom’s a great guy and has given us great visibility," says Paul Dooley, CEO of Canton-based MatchingDonors.com, which is trying to find a kidney for Martinez. CBS aired a segment on Martinez and Brady on Thanksgiving Day, and afterward several potential donors stepped forward. Alas, none was a match for Martinez. "It’s ok If they’re not a match for Tom, they might be a match for someone else," said Dooley. In case you’re wondering, Martinez last tutored Brady during a practice at Gillette Stadium in September. Ever since, the coach has not been well enough to travel. Boston Globe. Here is Tom Brady's information that he had put out on the Internet:

If you are interested in joining MatchingDonors.com as a patient feel free to give our Director of Patient Relations-Wally a call at 781-821-2204 ext # 3. He'd be happy tyo give you many references to call of our patients and donors that had surgeries through MatchingDonors.com.

MatchingDonors.com Organ Donation Website Registry Names "Everybody Can Save a Life!" Video Contest Winners.

MatchingDonors.com taps Zooppa's community of filmmakers to help patients find willing organ donors.

We at MatchingDonors.com would like to thank Jon Bon Jovi and Endrick LeKay for the great job they just did on their "Superman Tonight" music video, showing MatchingDonor.com's donor Endrick holding up a sign saying "I gave a complete stranger my kidney." and for all the other things Jon Bon Jovi and Endrick have in the works for MatchingDonors.com. In the next few months Endrick will also be donating a portion of his liver to a woman he found on MatchingDonors.com. see his video here http://www.bonjovi.com/video/all/heroes_of_superman_tonight__endrick , see the Superman Tonight video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9k-k8609go

MATCHINGDONORS PAIRED KIDNEY EXCHANGE PROGRAM. MatchingDonors.com now has the world’s largest database of available altruistic donors willing to take part in an incompatible paired kidney exchange. There are currently 2221 registered Potential Donors on MatchingDonors.com willing to be altruistic incompatible donors. Press here to view more about our program.

Also, starting this winter MatchingDonors.com will be having a national television, radio, newspaper, magazine and billboard advertising campaign with many celebrity endorsements. The celebrities will be from, movies, television, sports, politics and the music industry. Companies will be able to pay to be noticed as the sponsor these advertisements and 100% of the proceeds from the sale of these sponsorships will go to patient services from MatchingDonors.com.

See above a great story that NBC'S TODAY SHOW and Natalie Morales just did about MatchingDonors.com.

We hope everything is going well with you. Things are as busy as always, and going great at MatchingDonors.com.

Thanks,

Paul Dooley

CEO-Founder

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A Hero on a Mission

Bob's efforts to help our patients and donors never stop. We are extremely proud of Bob and all he has done. Here's Bob's most recent picture- he looks great! Bob's advocacy has been personally responsible for saving the lives of a number of our patients.

On October 20, 2004 Bob Hickey was the first patient transplanted on MatchingDonors.com. His unselfish efforts in assisting all of our patients and fighting for their rights has made him a Hero to all of us. Any patient can always feel free to contact Bob and ask for his input and experience and even get help on writing a profile. Our most successful patients are those who speak with Bob about his experiences. Bob has created a web site that every patient, donor and anyone interested in organ donation should view. His contact information is also available on his web site View Bob's web site his contact information is:

Innovative Strategies P.O. Box 506 Eagle CO 81631 Tel. 970-372-6690 rfhickey@innovativestrategies.org

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If you have an upcoming surgery please call us at 781-821-2204 so we can help you with arrangements, and to also get the news of your surgery out (if you wish).
If you do any press or news don't forget to thank your doctors and hospital by name and the surgical team; they deserve praise.

Tips on using MatchingDonors.com

To get the most out MatchingDonors.com you should:

We performed an analysis of the patients that are getting donors and transplants the quickest on MatchingDonors.com and they all said to get the best response from your MatchingDonors.com account you must do the following:

1. Send your profile out to every donor in our database every day. Do this by pressing on the EDIT/UPDATE PATIENT PROFILE button on the top of this page, then scroll to the bottom of the next page and press on the SUBMIT/UPDATE button. Do this at least every Monday and Thursday until you find your matched donor. Every time you do this your profile will be sent out to every donor in our database - through their search agent. Your profile will also go towards the top of the patient searchable list.

2. Contact donors through your search agent at least once a day. Every day you will receive a list of donor's profiles from your "Search Agents"; these are very active donors that want to be contacted. This is the list of the past three day's new and updated donors. Check your list at least once per day by going to the top of your "Patient Desktop" and pressing on the "Press here to view your daily donor matches at anytime" link. Donors add and deactivate their profiles continuously during the day, so check the list as often as you can. If you want to save this list of donors you can e-mail it to yourself. This is the most likely place for patients to find their donors. This list is available at the top of your patient desktop when you sign into your account. This is the best way for patients to find donors since patients can't search for donors any other way. You do not have a searchable list of donors where you can search every donor in the database. When you respond to donors through the search agent your messages to them and their subsequent messages to you will be in your In-Box above.

3. Contact all donors that you can by telephone, if they only have an e-mail address send them your profile and telephone number, asking them to call you. Some of the donors that you receive by the Search Agent or contact you may not be a compatible blood type. These are still great donors that may be willing to do a paired exchange in order to get your organ donated to you. We have had tremendous success with paired exchanges. If you do not want to do a paired exchange you do not need to contact these donors.

4. Contact MatchingDonors.com within three days of finding a donor that has had a blood test and matched to you to start the process of us trying to help you and your donor with travel arrangements.

5. Please, you must be responsible. Do not deal with any donors, or hospitals, outside of your own country; we will not support them. Do not give any money to any donor for any reason, all money to donors for any reason must be paid through your hospital. Do not give your e-mail address to anyone and do not contact any donor at their personal e-mail for any reason-all e-mails must go through your MatchingDonors.com In-Box. If you do not abide by these rules you will be permanently removed from the website. We have law officials checking the correspondences from patients and donors on a regular basis. You can also report the profile of any donor that you think should be reported to MatchingDonors.com for abuse of the system- just press on the donor's profile, then press on the "report profile" button.