Transplant Archive — Page 11 of 23
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February 9, 2022
VUMC a national leader in organ, tissue donations
A total of 109 people gave the gift of life as deceased organ donors at Vanderbilt in 2021, resulting in saving 280 lives, more than any other year, and more patients generously gave their gift of organs at Vanderbilt last year than any other single hospital in the United States. -
February 7, 2022
Hospital staff conspires to help transplant patient plan a surprise proposal – to his wife
Love was in the air on the seventh floor of Medical Center East -
January 27, 2022
Relating to transplant patients comes naturally for Sizemore
When Vanderbilt's Kanisha Sizemore, CPhT, helps transplant patients with their medications, she knows what they’re going through. -
January 26, 2022
Team seeks to rehab damaged donor livers for transplant
A Vanderbilt team is studying whether injured human donor livers declined for transplant can be recovered by cross-circulation between the human liver and a xenogeneic host. -
January 20, 2022
Vanderbilt Transplant Center reached new record in 2021
The Vanderbilt Transplant Center established a new record in calendar year 2021 for total solid organ transplants, performing 645 life-saving procedures among its adult and pediatric organ transplant programs. -
January 20, 2022
Erasmus named medical director of the Vanderbilt Lung Transplant Program
David Erasmus, MBChB, MD, assistant professor of Medicine, joined Vanderbilt University Medical Center earlier this month as medical director of the Vanderbilt Lung Transplant Program. -
January 13, 2022
Eighteen years ago Kanisha Sizemore got a new kidney and pancreas. With her job in the Transplant Pharmacy she gives patients hope and perspective.
“Being a transplant recipient is a blessing, but it is also life changing in several ways."