Vanderbilt Transplant Center Archive — Page 9 of 15
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February 28, 2020
VUMC uses novel transplant technique to revive donor hearts that had stopped beating
In the first such procedures in Tennessee, Vanderbilt University Medical Center has successfully used technology to bring two donor hearts that stopped beating back to life before transplanting them into patients. -
February 27, 2020
Randy Hatch has dedicated his life to teaching and coaching at-risk young people. After his lifesaving liver transplant, they lined the halls to welcome him back.
His beloved Carroll Academy Jaguars and Lady Jaguars honor him with a message on their shirts: "Donate Life." -
January 23, 2020
Transplant helped tour manager stay on the road
Robin Majors, who is getting ready for his 15th gig as country music star Kenny Chesney’s assistant tour manager, has a very personal reason to celebrate the Vanderbilt Transplant Center’s 30th anniversary. -
January 22, 2020
Transplant Center celebrates 30 years of impacting lives
The Vanderbilt Transplant Center started 30 years ago as a dream to create a multi-organ transplant center housed not all over a campus but in a single location. -
January 16, 2020
VUMC tops in nation for number of heart transplants performed last year
Vanderbilt University Medical Center tied for first place as the busiest heart transplant program by volume in the United States in 2019. -
December 20, 2019
Hepatitis C–positive donors a viable option to expand heart donor pool
Hepatitis C-positive heart donors offer a strategy to safely expand the donor pool and allow more patients to undergo transplant. -
November 21, 2019
Couple’s bequest allows them to reciprocate the gift of life
Larry and Sue Hill, of Norris, Tennessee, decided after Larry’s life-saving kidney transplant at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2012 that they weren’t satisfied just saying thank you and moving on. They wanted to pay it forward.