The Chimera

The Patient is Fully Awake… As Planned

First awake kidney transplant performed at Northwestern University

Surgeon Spotlight: Anji Wall, MD, PhD on Bioethics and Transplantation

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

Committee Updates

The Landscape of Liver Transplantation for Patients with Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease in the U.S.

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

The Future of ASTS: Trainees Enjoy Winter Symposium

What is NSQIP Transplant?

Living Donor Committee Participates in Historic Advocacy Day ASTS

Wearable Dialysis, Implantable Dialysis, and Artificial Kidneys

Surgeon Spotlight: Anthony Watkins, MD

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

Surgeon Spotlight: Nicholas Onaca, MD

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

Where are we with tolerance induction in transplantation today? Is it time to ditch the pills yet?

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?

Tracheal Transplantation

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!