Media Outlets Across the Country Highlight Memorable First Meeting between Altruistic Kidney Donor and Recipient

It was a special day at Temple University Hospital on Friday, April 25 as 17-year-old Evelyn Bautista and 21-year-old Megan Bosack met for the first time – a significant milestone since the two didn’t know each other’s identities when Megan donated her kidney to Evelyn on April 7. Megan had been living with Nutcracker Syndrome and Evelyn had been living with kidney disease. Multiple media outlets attended the meeting of Evelyn and Megan, including CBS News Philadelphia, 6abc, Fox29 the Philadelphia Inquirer and PhillyVoice. The coverage featured interviews with Evelyn and Megan; Evelyn’s mother; Megan’s parents; Living Donor Coordinator John Mulligan; Kenneth Chavin, MD, MBA, PhD, FACS, Director of the Abdominal Organ Transplant Program at TUH; and Antonio Di Carlo, MD, CM, FACS, FRCSC, Chief of Abdominal Organ Transplant Surgery at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and Surgical Director of Kidney, Liver and Pancreas Transplantation and Living Donation at TUH. NBC10 also covered the meeting. Bucksco.Today picked up the Philadelphia Inquirer article, and the CBS News Philadelphia segment has been picked up by stations across the country, including in Providence, RI; Baton Rouge, LA, Fargo, ND; Bangor, ME; Myrtle Beach, SC; Orlando, FL; Burlington, VT; Birmingham, AL; Pittsburgh; and Wilkes-Barre.