Donor Diaries
Donor Diaries
Laurie Lee
Why People Say Yes to Living Donation | EP 42
37 minutes Posted Jul 7, 2026 at 5:00 am.
A Bold Case For Donating
Meet Research Leader Amy Waterman
Why Long-Term Donor Data Is Hard
Donor Identity And Community Belonging
The Calls That Changed Her Career
Building Better Systems For Patients
Peer Mentors And Digital Storytelling
Three Donor Motivation Profiles Explained
Legacy, Impact, And Generations Of Good
A Spiritual Lens On Life And Death
Why Donors Donate Again
Storytelling Invitation And Closing
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Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Donor Diaries, we sit down with Dr. Amy Waterman, a national leader in transplant health services research and patient engagement at Houston Methodist, to talk about what we know about living donors, and what we are still learning. Amy has spent her career studying how to help patients and living donors make informed, confident decisions. We talk about why long term living donor research takes decades, why comparison groups matter when studying donor outcom...