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Less-Invasive Liver-Donor Surgery May Shorten Transplant Waiting List
"Dr. Benjamin Samstein, a leader in laparoscopic liver-donor surgery, says his aim is to greatly increase access to liver transplants."
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The Greatest Gift: One Organ Donation Touches The Lives Of Many
"Like most New Yorkers, Sal Lopizzo never gave organ donation much thought."
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Columbia’s Department of Surgery Establishes the Newmyer Family Fellowship for Innovation in Surgery
The Department of Surgery at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) is very pleased to announce a gift to create the Newmyer Family Fellowship for Innovation in Surgery, with gratitude...
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In a turf battle for organs, a policy review rattles the national transplant system
"Tethered to a breathing machine at a Manhattan hospital, 21-year-old Miriam Holman would die without a lung transplant. But her odds of finding a suitable organ were especially low in New York,...
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The Transplant Forum (watch video)
This is the place that you come when nothing else works anywhere else. They find solutions and they back you up 24-7. I would never go anywhere else.
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The second annual Transplant Forum Benefit
On October 19, 2017, the Transplant Forum at CUMC hosted 230 guests at Bryant Park Grill to celebrate the transplant journey and to raise funds for transplant research across all organ areas at...
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Columbia Engineers and Clinicians First to Build a Functional Vascularized Lung Scaffold
New approach to bioengineering lungs selectively treats epithelium that lines the lung airway, while preserving lung vasculature; this transformative technique could lead to improved care of...
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Research
How Xenotransplantation Works
Dr. Adam Griesemer, a principal investigator in the Large Animal Xenotransplantation Laboratory at the Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, discusses the promise of this latest advance in...
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MEDICAL MARVELS: From a heart transplant to a thriving life
A woman in the prime of her life arrived at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in dire condition.
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6-year-old completes triathlon after 3 open-heart surgeries
Read more about young Jack Foley whose open heart surgeries were performed by Dr. Emile Bacha, chief of congenital and pediatric cardiac surgery at Columbia University Medical Center.
