MEDIA ADVISORY
March 19, 2008

First annual Donate Life Walk for Awareness

Walk held Saturday, April 19 at Sparks Marina

WHAT:     Raise awareness about the importance of organ and tissue donation and help Team Nevada gear up for the 2008 U.S. Transplant Games by participating in the first annual Donate Life Walk for Awareness on Saturday, April 19 at the Sparks Marina. The two-mile fun walk, which will also feature live music, is hosted by the University of Nevada School of Medicine Organ Donor Program, Team Nevada, the Transplant Network and Sierra Nevada Tissue Bank.

     The individual registration fee is $25 while groups of 10 or more people may register for $15 per person. Each participant will receive a t-shirt, goody bag and raffle ticket. There will be many great raffle items including a Lemond Spin Bike valued at $1,250. Proceeds from the walk will be donated to Team Nevada to aid in their participation at the U.S. Transplant Games to take place in Pittsburgh, PA in July.

     To learn more about Team Nevada or for registration information, please visit www.transplantteamnevada.com.

WHEN:         8:30 a.m.
                         Saturday, April 19

WHERE:      Sparks Marina
                         Located along Interstate-80 just off North McCarran Boulevard
                         Sparks, Nevada

CONTACT:  Emily Wofford Cobb
                         Communications Manager
                         O: (775) 784-6006

                         M: (775) 338-5119
                         ecobb@medicine.nevada.edu

As the state’s only public medical school, the University of Nevada School of Medicine has been a leader in healthcare, medical education and research in Nevada since 1969. The School of Medicine includes 16 clinical departments including family medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, internal medicine, surgery, and psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and five nationally recognized departments in basic science including microbiology and biomedical engineering. The more than 185 doctors of University Health System, the school’s clinical practice, offer care in more than 40 medical specialties and subspecialties with eight physician offices in the Reno/Sparks area and seven in Las Vegas. The school is committed to a best practices approach to medicine and is dedicated to exceptional healthcare for Nevada now and in the future. For more information visit www.medicine.nevada.edu.