Vanderbilt Health was part of an international expedition of eight lung transplant patients, along with doctors and staff, who recently climbed Aconcagua, a mountain in Argentina that is the highest …
Matt Batcheldor
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Lung Transplantation
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The Vanderbilt Transplant Center is now the second largest lung transplant center in the United States by volume, with 149 lung transplants in 2025, the most ever in one year …
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Lung Transplantation
1,000 lungs and countless more breaths: Vanderbilt Transplant Center commemorates landmark
January 20, 2022 Erasmus named medical director of the Vanderbilt Lung Transplant Program David Erasmus, MBChB, MD, assistant professor of Medicine, joined Vanderbilt University Medical Center earlier this month as …
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Heart Transplantation
New donor organ storage method helps reduce rates of severe primary graft dysfunction
February 2, 2024 Novel device helps extend window of time to preserve hearts donated after cardiac death In the first such procedure, Vanderbilt University Medical Center has transplanted a DCD …
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Vanderbilt Transplant Center nation’s largest after performing record number of solid organ transplants in 2025
March 24, 2022 Mohammad to direct Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Center Saeed Mohammad, MD, MS, has been named director of the Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Center at Monroe Carell Jr. …
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Heart Transplantation
Vanderbilt Health performs record number of adult and pediatric heart transplants during 2025
January 20, 2022 Vanderbilt Transplant Center reached new record in 2021 The Vanderbilt Transplant Center established a new record in calendar year 2021 for total solid organ transplants, performing 645 …
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December 14, 2023 VUMC performs its first combined lung and liver transplant Connie Rankin of Memphis, Tennessee, received Vanderbilt’s first combined lung and liver transplant, which involved dozens of specialists, …
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Lung Transplantation
The long journey of the transplant takes her from Aloha State to a volunteer state
November 22, 2024 Konrad hoetzenecker named Director of Surgery for Vanderbilt Lung Transplant Program Hoetzenecker comes to Vanderbilt from the University of Vienna in Austria and is a professor of …
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Heart Transplantation
A team from the Philippines visits to observe heart and lung transplant programs
October 24, 2013 Transplant centers are seeing a surge in volume One of the largest organ transplant programs in the southeast, Vanderbilt Transplant Centers is at a pace that surpasses …
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July 23, 2024 Vanderbilt Transplant Center Finishes fiscal year with a record 809 solid organ transplant Vanderbilt's Adult Heart, Lung, Liver and Kidney Transplant Program individually recorded record years with …