Feature Article - Kidney News magazine

As a freelance medical writer for Kidney News magazine, a publication of the American Society of Nephrology (ASN), Lisa Schwartz interviewed Dr. Anna Gaddy, a nephrologist who saw the need for more living kidney donors and decided to become one herself.

Dr. Gaddy did not know the person who would be receiving her spare kidney, which continues to spark the conversation about the importance of living organ donation and how directed and nondirected living kidney donations save the lives of those with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and kidney failure.