Potentially, this expands the donor pool considerably".
Instead of vacuuming up finite resources, celebrity campaigns seem to widen the donor pool.
But, unsurprisingly, an excess of critical-theory-reading photography majors doesn't make for a promising donor pool.
As the organ shortage has intensified, practical ways have evolved to expand the donor pool, many initially controversial.
Such programs have the potential to increase significantly the donor pool and the success of transplants, because the surgery can be done before the patient is deathly ill.
In order to increase the donor pool, Dr. Waltzer said, his department is setting up a program for potential donors and recipients from different families.
The center has a donor pool of about 100 women, she said, and planned to perform 500 procedures in its first year.
Finding matches for ethnic minorities is particularly hard, doctors and researchers say, because there are too many people of similar background in the existing donor pool.
La Présentation, he said, "lacks staff, lacks cash flow, lacks a substantial audience, lacks a significant donor pool to pull off a signature event".
The first-order distributive consequences of these pay-for-play radio deals has to do with which Washington institution gets to tap which audience's potential donor pool.
Dina R. Rosenthal, the director of the Staten Island Children's Museum, said its donor pool is relatively small, mainly Staten Islanders and typically people of more modest means.
