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Former patient Robin Majors was among those who attended last week’s 30th anniversary celebration for the Vanderbilt Transplant Center.
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.

Trinity Scott holds a bag containing the portable ventricular assist device that served as a bridge to her eventual heart transplant.
January 23, 2020

Portable VAD gives patient a bridge to heart transplant

For nearly a month, 15-year-old Trinity Scott sported a black canvas messenger bag filled with favorite books, lip gloss or school supplies. Her bag even had a name, “Alice.” But far from any ordinary bag, what was inside was literally keeping her alive.

Three formally dressed men standing side by side indoors, with the central man wearing a purple tie and the men on either side wearing red and patterned ties.
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.

Illustration of a human torso showing the heart and major blood vessels in red through a translucent rib cage and lungs.
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.

Exterior of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, showing the glass entrance canopy, tall modern hospital buildings, colorful children’s hospital sign, and red hospital logo.
January 16, 2020

Pediatric heart, liver transplant programs reach new milestones

Two transplant programs at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt reached milestones in 2019 for performing record numbers of heart and liver transplantations in a calendar year.

Aerial view of a densely wooded city campus and surrounding downtown buildings, with a large institutional complex in the foreground and low-rise neighborhoods extending to the horizon.
January 9, 2020

Deadline extended for transplant infectious diseases fellowship

The Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is seeking applicants for its new Transplant and Immunocompromised Host Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program.