With living donor liver transplants, surgery is scheduled in advance. The recipient can get a liver before becoming too sick, often within weeks if they have a compatible living donor.

Lynne Warner Stevenson, MD, the Lisa M. Jacobson Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, was awarded the Heart Failure Lifetime Achievement Award.

The family-friendly event, organized by the American Heart Association and sponsored in part by VUMC, will be held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20 at GEODIS Park.

This marks a second record-shattering year for solid organ transplants for Vanderbilt Health, surpassing last year’s previous record with an additional 109 lives saved. 

ECMO, or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, is a life-sustaining mechanical system that takes over for the hearts and lungs of critically ill patients, allowing them to rest and recover.

Her care illustrates the multidisciplinary expertise of the Vanderbilt Women’s Heart Center, Cardiac OB/High-Risk Pregnancy Team and maternal-fetal medicine specialists.