LOPA announced as a 2024 Partnership in Excellence Award recipient.

LOPA’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Brett Gordon, and two of LOPA’s Community Educators and Multiethnic Specialists, Kristie Gauthreaux and Shainne Williams, recently had the opportunity to attend the 32nd Annual Association for Multicultural Affairs in Transplantation (AMAT) Conference in San Diego, California.

LOPA (Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency) is participating in National Multiethnic Donor Awareness Month (NMDAM) to increase awareness for organ donation in multiethnic communities. 

Organ donation & transplantation professional to lead statewide agency of 250+ clinical, operations and administrative employees.

While most coroner’s offices throughout the state work with LOPA to offer families the opportunity to help save and enhance the lives of others through tissue donation, the East Baton Rouge Coroner’s Office continues to provide more referrals than any other parish. Since taking office in 2012, Dr. Clark has honored over 650 individual donor heroes and their families through the gifts of tissue and eye donation.

LOPA (Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency) announced the release of a new children’s book, entitled “Ava’s Wish.”

Agency positioned to lead the nation in growth and innovation in the field of organ donation.

Connected by Life features news and issues surrounding organ donation and transplantation.

“Aliye’s Law” promotes organ, tissue and eye donation education as a required component of Louisiana’s high school curriculum.

Innovative initiative fills gap for families whose loved ones donate the gift of life.

This milestone comes almost a decade after the HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act enabled people living with HIV to donate their organs to those on the transplant waiting list living with HIV.

A national consortium of organ procurement organizations shares its commitment to driving change and saving the lives of more than 100,000 Americans awaiting a life saving organ donation.

We have received lots of questions about how COVID impacts donation and transplantation. Please read the information below which addresses the questions we most commonly hear.