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Contact:
Michael R. Coston
Director of Marketing and Public Relations
Forchelli, Curto, Schwartz, Mineo, Carlino & Cohn, LLP
Phone: 516-248-1700
Email: mcoston@forchellilaw.com
ATTORNEY DONALD JAY SCHWARTZ ADVOCATES
ORGAN DONOR AWARENESS DURING CONFERENCE
Mineola, November 09, 2002 — Donald Jay Schwartz,
Esq., a resident of Oceanside, NY, and a partner at the
Mineola-based law firm, Forchelli, Curto, Deegan, Schwartz, Mineo, Cohn & Terrana, LLP, met recently with
New York State Department of Motor Vehicles Commissioner
Raymond Martinez and New York State Senator Kemp Hannon
during a conference held at the Farmingdale Public Library
to raise organ donor awareness and to consider the institution
of an organ donor link on the NYS Department of Motor Vehicles’
web site.
Schwartz, a member of the Long Island chapter (Garden City,
NY) of TRIO — Transplant Recipients International
Organization — reflected on the importance of public
advocacy, and for creating systems for making organ donations:
“Highlighting the importance of organ and tissue donations,
used in liver, kidney, and heart transplant surgery, a true
gift of life, was the basis for the meeting and I believe
easing the process by providing an online form at www.litrio.com
is crucial to advancing life-saving action.”
Currently, New York organ donors may fill out an enrollment
form on the back of their driver’s license. In 2000,
the state Department of Motor Vehicles and the state Department
of Health created the Organ and Tissue Donor Registry —
a statewide list of potential donors. “Now, with the
capability of an online enrollment through the NYS Motor
Vehicles Department website,” notes Schwartz, “TRIO
and other advocacy groups see the means for a more efficient
and accessible database for registration and connection
between hospitals and families during critical times.”
Donald Jay Schwartz has been motivated to volunteer for
TRIO because his sister, a graduate of Oceanside High School,
was the recipient of a donor liver in 1993 and recently,
as an employee of New York’s Department of State,
has persuaded state officials to mail out donor application
forms to all state employees. Together, sister and brother
continue to involve themselves in what they know, firsthand,
to be the gift of life.
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