First awake kidney transplant performed at Northwestern University

Hear from Dr. Anji Wall on her journey in transplant and bioethics!

Listen to a discussion between Dr. Srinath Chinnakotla, and Dr. Vinayak Rohan.

Dr. Watkins is a transplant surgeon and surgical director of kidney transplant at the Transplant Institute at Tampa General Hospital

Dr. Onaca was born and raised in Romania. He attended medical school at Carol Davilla University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, Romania before completing his general surgery residency at the Chaim Sheba Medical Center in Israel, where he also spent 18 months in the militar

Over two decades have elapsed since the beginnings of pilot clinical trials of combined hematopoietic cell and organ transplantation to induce tolerance in clinical living-donor kidney transplantation, at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1998 and at Stanford in 2000. Northwestern joined the effort in 2009. What is the status of tolerance induction trials today?

Recently, Eric Genden, MD, MHCA, FACS and his team reported the first vascularized tracheal transplantation for a patient with a life-threatening 9.0 cm combined cricoid-tracheal airway stenosis. Read more about this surgical innovation!

Learn more about Amit Mathur, MD, MS, FACS.

The altruistic nature of live organ donation demands that we continue to seek better, safer, and less traumatic modalities for our donors. This has been achieved nationwide with living donor kidney transplant, through the adoption of laparoscopic and robotic donor nephrectomies at almost every level.

Surgical powerhouse, Dr. Carlos Esquivel, MD, PhD, discusses his professional influences, his greatest achievements, and shares the best advice he received in his career.