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UT Students Host Organ Donor Awareness Day on Campus Wednesday, November 15, 2006 San Jacinto Residence Hall
Students in Dr. Steinhardt's Freshman Leadership Seminar signed up 611organ donors! Find out here how you can become an organ donor too.

Before his speech, Dr. Phil Berry took time to consult with a potential organ donor.	TOSA volunteers worked hard to prepare for the event.
L-r: Speaker Carson Kainer, former Longhorns baseball player; Alexandra Masters, the event's chief organizer; and Michelle Segovia of the Texas Organ Sharing Alliance.	Many prizes were raffled off, including two footballs signed by Horns coach Mack Brown.
Carson Kainer spoke movingly of his experience as an organ donor recipient.	Dr. Berry followed, speaking of his own experience. (photo credit: Robin Beckwith)
Afterwards, Carson gave autographs for the fans. (photo credit: Robin Beckwith)	Members of the Freshman Leadership seminar with Dr. Steinhardt (back row, right) and friends.

When the students in Dr. Mary Steinhardt’s Leadership class were assigned a project to educate fellow students on The University of Texas at Austin campus, they wanted to undertake a task that would help others. One of the students introduced the topic of organ donation and another relayed the story of surgeon and former Texas Medical Association President, Dr. Phil Berry, a liver recipient whom she met at a presentation last year. The doctor contracted Hepatitis B while performing surgery on a patient. The disease ruined his liver and he needed a transplant in order to live. “The class felt compelled to help educate the university students about the organ donor shortage after I told them about Dr. Berry,” stated Alexandra Masters, a freshman at the University of Texas at Austin. For further information, please email or call: Dr. Mary Steinhardt at 512-232-3535 or Michelle Segovia of the Texas Organ Sharing Alliance at 512-554-7795 or 512-459-4848.