February 1, 2010
By Matthew Cooper, M.D. Director of Kidney Transplantation Transplantation is about opportunity. The hardest part about choosing a career in transplantation is knowing the limits of perhaps the most ‘valuable’ valuable resource on this earth – lifesaving organs for those that desperately need them. Every day people die on the waiting list as that opportunity never [...]
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December 15, 2009
By Chris Lindsley Blog Editor The University of Maryland Medical Center recently completed a four-way kidney exchange involving eight patients from four states. Get a real sense for what this exchange was like from the participants involved, including several patients, UMMC’s director of kidney transplantation and its transplant coordinator. 1. Ed Behn, the person responsible [...]
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