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Organ Transplant
Liver
Emory Healthcare’s Liver Transplant Program Gave Stacy a New Chance at Life
You wouldn’t know it looking at her today, but a little more than a year ago, Stacy was at Emory University Hospital facing the possibility that she wouldn’t be going home. A diagnosis of...
Living Donor
Living Kidney Donor: Joe Johnson’s Miracle for a Stranger
In life, some things just fall into place. In 2015, Joe Johnson was a 58-year-old retiree, enjoying an easy life of golfing, fishing and aviation (he’s a private pilot). One day, a random online...
Organ Transplant
Powerful, Myth-Busting Facts About Organ Donation
Every 10 minutes, someone is added to the organ transplant waiting list in the United States and it’s estimated that there are more than 100,000 people waiting for a donation. But despite such high...
Heart
A Beating Heart: Groundbreaking Transplant Study Offers New Hope for Patients with End-Stage Heart Failure
There are roughly 3,500 Americans currently waiting for heart transplant surgery. Those are men, women and children struggling with end-stage heart failure and hoping that they will soon get a call notifying them that...
Lung
Athlete, Husband, Double-Lung Transplant Recipient
Nolan Gottlieb is Still Living Life to the Fullest, Despite the Toll of Cystic Fibrosis
The first day Nolan Gottlieb worked out with the men’s basketball team at Anderson University, he had one request for...
Organ Transplant
COVID-19 Vaccine Recommendation for Emory Transplant Center Patients
Emory Transplant Center recognizes that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought many challenges and concerns this past year to our transplant patients. There is now excitement about the two COVID-19 vaccines that have been approved...
Kidney
RaDIANT Study Seeks to Improve Access to Kidney Transplants
The Emory Transplant Center has some of the best kidney transplant patient and graft survival rates of any center in the country. Yet too few end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients, especially those who have...
Organ Transplant
Emory Transplant Center Quality Driven by Lean Methodology
Even in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, experts at the Emory Transplant Center continue to keep quality at the forefront of our daily operations. We use a technique known as Lean methodology to...
