2017 Dr. Jeffrey Veale

DR. JEFFREY VEALE

A special guest to the Donate Life Float, transplant surgeon Dr. Jeff Veale will join the Nick Damon Kidney Chain

Dr. Veale is one of the busiest transplant surgeons in the United States, and as Associate Professor at UCLA, is the Director of the Kidney Transplant Exchange Program. As a federally funded NIH researcher, his innovative work in transplantation has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The New England Journal of Medicine. It is an honor that a number of Dr. Veale’s donor/recipient pairs of different backgrounds who were a “match” for kidney transplantation will be participating as Walkers in the 2017 Donate Life Rose Parade Float.

Dr. Veale’s Story

Dr. Jeffrey Veale is one of the busiest transplant surgeons in the United States, and as Associate Professor at UCLA, is the Director of the Kidney Transplant Exchange Program. www.transplants.ucla.edu/kidneyexchange.

Dr. Veale is a federally funded NIH researcher, and his innovative work in transplantation has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The New England Journal of Medicine.

Currently, Dr. Veale is spearheading the campaign that "to a surgeon a kidney is always pink", as he has personally witnessed numerous strangers donate their kidney and save the life of another person of different skin color, gender, or religion.

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It is an honor that a number of Dr. Veale’s donor/recipient pairs of different skin color who were a "match" for kidney transplantation will be featured in the 2017 Rose Bowl Parade.