TRANSPLANT SURGERY

DIVISION OVERVIEW

Transplant Services at the U.W. Medical Center— together with the Division of Transplant Surgery in the Department of Surgery— encompass the clinical, academic and research elements of abdominal transplantation at the University of Washington.

Transplant Services is principally organized around two multidisciplinary clinical teams: Liver Transplantation, and Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation. Each team is dedicated to providing transplant care with compassion, integrity, and respect for individual dignity.  The Division of Transplant Surgery is nationally and internationally recognized for being on the leading edge of innovative teaching, research and technology related to transplant. We are committed to continuously improving our expertise so that we can offer patients with organ failure an opportunity to pursue a higher quality of life.

Overall, the University of Washington boasts a comprehensive multi-organ transplant program tracing back to 1968. The Evolution of Transplantation at UW details some of the highlights in the development of our programs.

Today, the University of Washington Center for Transplantation encompasses both abdominal (liver, kidney, pancreas) and cardiothoracic (heart and lung) transplantation. We partner with Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center which offers pediatric kidney, liver, and heart transplantation. In addition, the University of Washington Medical Center offers programs in autologous bone marrow transplant and high dose chemotherapy.