Division of Organ Transplantation
With kidney and liver transplant success rates well above the national average, our Division of Organ Transplantation has been committed to exceeding expectations of care and compassion for more than twenty-five years. We focus on creating a relationship of trust as we evaluate cases, add patients to the transplant candidate list, and ultimately complete life-saving transplants. Our collaborative team of transplant surgeons, hepatologists, nephrologists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, researchers, and data analysts total over fifty individuals working together to provide a successful path to organ transplantation that offers even the most challenging patients an opportunity for optimal experience and outcome.
Our Division’s commitment to patient care extends far beyond our office walls. We are performing ongoing research a wide range of topics to push the frontiers of transplantation surgery and medicine. We are also actively involved in the national societies and governing boards whose work set the policies that guide the future of transplantation.
Featured Services
Kidney Transplantation
Liver Transplantation
Pancreas Transplantation
Recognitions & Awards
Created Scripps Clinic’s first Bio-Repository; a state-of-the-art facility that serves as a shared resource of biological samples for medical research organizations
Led the field of transplant showing the value of protocol biopsies and demonstrating how most patients do not require maintenance steroids to keep from rejecting their transplants.
Developed the kidney Living Donor Hero Walk for acknowledging the key role living donors play in kidney transplantation when as many as 100 hospital and transplant staff members line the hallway to applaud and cheer for donors as they are wheeled into the operating room.
Working to reduce the organ shortage by participating in one of the first major trials of pumping livers on a machine as a means of preserving them longer outside the body and resuscitating less optimal organs into more highly functioning ones.
Spearheading the Liver Outcome Monitoring Registry (LOMR), an online platform developed to enhance the transplant community’s understanding of the outcomes of marginal organs in liver transplantation and establish the optimal protocols for the use of these organs.
Our division handles the highest complexity procedures for the most challenging medical populations in order to assist our surgical and non-surgical colleagues with a host of diagnostic and therapeutic treatment options for patients.