Nice work by @stanford #PhDstudent Grace Guan -Great cross departmental collaboration (including Prof Itai Ashlagi). Transplant surgeons already account for inaccuracies in the Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI) calculation - Clinical Transplantation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ct…

Our Stanford Children's Pediatric Hepatologist Dr. Peace Dike project to address racial and ethnic disparities in pediatric liver transplantation featured here: lpfch.org/researcher-spo…

Her work is made possible by a Stanford Maternal and Child Health Research Institute pilot grant.

In celebration of Donate Life Month, a flag raising ceremony honored those who've given the ultimate gift of life through organ donation. Jaxon, a brave kidney transplant recipient, raised the flag in gratitude to his living donor, Sarah. bit.ly/3PYDZ4y
#DonateLifeMonth

Strong work by the Stanford Children's StanfordAbdTxp team - making this #kidneyexchange happen. Thomas Pham and Dr. Patel and more! How a Social Media Post Led a Teen to Find a ‘Kidney Buddy’ for Life - tinyurl.com/2a6hrjhk

Stanford Kidney Txp tinyurl.com/mry2ety5

For Donate Life Month we honor Ocean, his family and his donor. We first met Ocean, who has #biliaryatresia , at Hawaii outreach clinic. He brought so much joy to all at Stanford Children's, but even more joy to hug him goodbye and get him home! StanfordAbdTxp Society of Pediatric Liver Transplantation (SPLIT) BARE

Amazing work by our @StanfordAbdtxp team!
healthier.stanfordchildrens.org/en/new-liver-g…

Congratulations to @opnotes & StanfordAbdTxp graduate, Dr. Aleah Brubaker, et al for paper on extending benefits of #livertransplant to more patients. Utilization of Normothermic Machine Perfusion to Rescue Liver Allografts in Unallocated Unstable Donors ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Check out, and help us share our Spring Newsletter tinyurl.com/49uec5te!
We highlight exciting news:
1⃣Arrival of new faculty
2⃣The expansion of our hepatology program
3⃣A recent paper in Nature from the Torok lab
4⃣Celebrating multiple grants, awards and promotions
#GITwitter

Did you know more than 23,000 Californians alone are on the organ transplant waitlist?

Stanford Health Care and Stanford Children's raised awareness during tonight’s game.

You can get more educated by visiting stanfordhealthcare.org/donatelife and transplant.stanfordchildrens.org.

During African American Heritage Night, seven Stanford Children's transplant patients stood with their favorite @Warriors’ players for the National Anthem. The “Anthem Buddies” took center stage, highlighting the profound impact of organ donation.
#DonateLife bit.ly/49xbh2q

Thank you to Stanford Medicine and Stanford Cardinal 🌲🤓 for Organ Donor Appreciation night at the @Stanford Women's basketball game recognizing donor impact on recipients who live life to the fullest and the nurse coordinators who make the transplants happen. Stanford Surgery StanfordAbdTxp

Congratulations to at all the teams at Stanford Children's that made this story happen, and the thank you for the gifts of life from organ donors that made it possible. #kidneytransplant , #livertransplant #hearttransplant Stanford Surgery Carlos O Esquivel

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“I can now imagine a world where the number of transplants is not limited by the number of donors.” StanfordAbdTxp Chief Marc Melcher discusses exogenic organs at #PCSA2024 🐷🫀

“The combination of liver with a different organ leads to better survival of the other organ in children” StanfordAbdTxp Postdoc Dr. Tetsuya Tajima presents “Dual organ transplantation in children in the United States” #PCSA2024

We are proud of our #surgicalPA , Laura Yamagata, PA-C, linkedin.com/in/laura-yamag…, who earned the ASTS Advanced Transplant Provider Certificate of Educational Achievement! She joins Sarah Conlon, another Stanford PA in achieving this. #TransplantCare #ASTSCertified ASTS

Dr. Tetsuya Tajima looks at risk factors for EBV in DNAemia in Pediatric Transplantation StanfordAbdTxp @SMkrams #ASC2024

Learn more about the training you can get Stanford University Stanford UniversitySurgery Stanford UniversityAbdTxp ASTS Fellowship. Application portal open. Get great training in adult and pediatric abdominal transplantation. transplantation.stanford.edu/Training/Fello…

Released a new version of my MELD Calculator app to include the MELD 3 calculation. Let me know if there are bugs or if you have suggested improvements. apps.apple.com/us/app/meld-ca…

Dr. Stephan Busque speaking at #ASTSwinter about the StanfordAbdTxp tolerance experience. Varia Kirchner moderating this session about the future of transplant.

Dr Aleah Brubaker speaking at #ASTSwinter Symposium as a Liver Machine Perfusion Expert. Stanford Surgery and StanfordAbdTxp grad!