Organ Donation documentary now available for screenings

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The Rabbinical Assembly Committee on Jewish Law and Standards officially adopted his rabbinic responsum, ‘The Obligation to Preserve Life and the Question of Post-Mortem Organ and Tissue Donation.’ In that paper, Rabbi Prouser identifies a religious obligation to provide organs for life-saving transplant procedures.

Three-time Olympic snowboarder and the only organ transplant recipient to win a medal in any Olympic Games. Only 18 months after his transplant, Chris took home a bronze medal in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. The following year, he founded the Chris Klug Foundation to help save lives and promote a healthy, active lifestyle post-transplant. 

Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, two-time organ recipient, editor of When Altruism Isn’t Enough: The Case for Compensating Kidney Donors (AEI Press, 2009). Author or co-author of several books, including Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience which was a finalist for the 2013 Los Angeles TimesBook Prize in Science.

President of the Center for Health, Ethics and Social Policy in Washington DC. Visiting Scholar at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania,  regularly contributes pieces to The Nation and The Huffington Post. Calls this film "one of the most important documentaries on organ donation policy that I've ever seen."  

Renowned leader in the field of organ transplantation, has introduced procedures to improve donor organ preservation, published more than 1,000 articles and book chapters, serves on the editorial board for several medical journals and was the former editor-in-chief for Liver Transplantation.

Matthew Alton Cartwright is an attorney who has served as the United States Representative for Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district since 2013. He is the Sponsor of the Organ Donor Clarification Act.