Full house for this afternoon’s AmericanTransplantCongress xenotransplant session, a highlight —> Dr. Shaked sharing Penn Transplant Institute experience

Congratulations to Emily Blumberg (PENN ID) on being selected as this month's featured educator by IDSA Medical Education Community of Practice! tinyurl.com/22jbkjxu

Thinking about #Transplant #Nephrology? Our training program at Penn Transplant Institute can help you achieve your goals in a great environment! pennmedicine.org/departments-an…

Lancaster resident Mallory Redcay was told she would probably never give birth due to a #kidney disease diagnosis as a child. This March, she delivered a healthy baby girl following a kidney #transplant at HUP. Penn Transplant Institute spr.ly/6010iuiSQ

Are you a #Transplant nephrologist who loves #MedEd, #PatientCare, #Philly and being part of a top notch team? Apply to join Penn Kidney Penn Transplant Institute! apply.interfolio.com/150334

Therese Bittermann, MD, Penn Medicine discusses her Liver Transplantation Journal (LTxJournal)-published literature review exploring challenges and advantages of #LivingDonor #LiverTransplant for alcohol-associated #hepatitis in our Q&A here: buff.ly/3z8n8a3 #SoMeDocs Penn Transplant Institute #LiverDonation

ICYMI: Leah Lambe, Manager, Gift of Life Donor Program at Penn, and Taneka Curtis, Manager, Perioperative Services, were honored on Sunday at the Philadelphia Union game as Healthcare Heroes for their work on increasing awareness of the organ donation process.

Researchers Penn Medicine, including transplant surgeon Dr Peter Abt, demonstrate a significant reduction in wait list mortality among liver transplant candidates willing to accept HCV NAT+ donors. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A new report published in ⁦American Journal of Transplantation⁩ by Nic Muñoz, MD, Emily Minus, @ElizabethSonnenberg and Dr. Peter Abt quantifies the underreporting of liver machine perfusion in US national data. amjtransplant.org/article/S1600-…

🩺 Penn Medicine spotlight: The Penn Medicine Liver Transplant Team evaluated Chenelle Watson (second from left) for a needed liver transplant. Her husband Marlon (left) was a suitable living donor and able to donate a portion of his liver for this life saving procedure. Dr.

On this day in 1966, Dr. Clyde Barker performed the first transplant at PTI. 59 years, and over 14,500 transplants later, we are honored to continue to provide compassionate, innovative, and excellent care. Check out this story about our first transplant: bit.ly/3jxvGex

Cheryl Cichonski-Urban donated her uterus as part of Penn’s first living donor uterus transplant over 5 years ago. Cheryl wrote about her experience for The Guardian. Learn more about her unique experience: bit.ly/4h0Vegb

ft. Vishnu Potluri, Salma Shaikhouni, Roy Bloom, Srijan Tandukar (Penn Kidney), Siqi Zhang, Douglas Schaubel (UPenn CCEB), Emily Blumberg (@Penn_ID) & Sunita Nasta (Penn Medicine - Abramson Cancer Center) Penn Transplant Institute acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/AN…

In April, Penn Transplant Institute performed a record-breaking 67 transplants. No better way to mark #DonateLifeMonth than by saving more lives in one month than ever before. Consider becoming an organ donor and give the gift of life: spr.ly/6018N8a9E

Simulating the impact of survival benefit-based liver transplant organ allocation ft. Zeke Emanuel (UPenn Medical Ethics & Health Policy), David Kaplan & Peter Reese (@PennGIHep) Penn Transplant Institute journals.lww.com/hep/abstract/9…

Uterus transplant is still a rare procedure—but for the six moms who have had eight babies to date through Penn’s program, it means the world. The group gathered with their donors, families, and care teams at a special brunch to celebrate the program. spr.ly/6012NXtkp

🚨New Specialty Podcast Episode🚨 "Overcoming Barriers: Revitalizing Pancreas Transplantation in the U.S." Drs. Jon Odorico & Ron Parsons join Dr. Alissar El Chediak to unpack why pancreas transplant volumes are falling--and how we can reverse the trend. ajthighlights.podbean.com/e/overcoming-b…

Don’t miss the current International Liver Transplant Society’s (ILTS) podcast, “Xenotherapies in Liver Disease and Transplantation” featuring an interview with Dr. Abraham Shaked, an expert in liver transplantation and xenotherapies. spoti.fi/3SD8PR8

Penn Transplant Institute Penn Transplant is happy to announce matching Dane Thompson MD, PhD, MBA Dane Thompson MD PhD MBA from the Zucker SOM at Hofstra Northwell to our fellowship. A great cohort of applicants this year and we are thrilled to get to train Dr Thompson. PennSurgery Penn Medicine

.Penn Medicine's 1st bilateral hand transplant since the COVID pandemic has a life-changing impact for a a 28-year-old patient ft. L. Scott Levin (Penn Orthopaedics), Benjamin Chang, Stephen Kovach (PennPlasticSurgery) & Abraham Shaked (Penn Transplant Institute) tinyurl.com/mtnb3392