With the help of Vanderbilt and other transplant centers, Ukraine has developed a growing transplant program in the country in the last four years.

While the surgery was a milestone for the hospital, for the pediatric patient and her family, it represented an answer to many prayers. 

Vanderbilt’s adult heart, lung, liver and kidney transplant programs individually had record fiscal years, with 150 heart transplants, 90 lung transplants, 180 liver transplants and 333 kidney transplants. In addition, adult transplant teams performed three heart/lung transplants and four kidney/pancreas transplants.

The new policy changed liver allocations from a regional service area to an “acuity circles” system that assigns donor livers as far as 500 nautical miles away based on the acuity of recipients.

LSU baseball fan sporting a new set of lungs after VUMC transplant

Sixty-nine individuals donated their organs at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2023, and they and their families were saluted on April 17 at the annual Donate Life Ceremony.

Peter Reese, MD, PhD, has been named the inaugural director of the Vanderbilt Center for Transplant Science.