Voices of Better Medicine: Northwestern Medicine Hispanic Access Transplant Program
Juan Caicedo Ramirez, MD, director of the Northwestern Medicine Hispanic Transplant Program, discusses the program, transplant care disparities Hispanic people often face, and how we can address those disparities.
Voices of Better Medicine: Living Donor Organ Transplantation
Juan Caicedo Ramirez, MD, surgical director of the Northwestern Medicine Liver Transplant Program, discusses the living donor organ transplant process, the Northwestern Medicine Living Donor Program and what a patient can expect when they get a liver transplant.
This Chicago doctor donated her kidney to a woman in Virginia she’d never met
Aleksandra Gmurczyk, MD, a nephrologist and assistant professor of Nephrology and Hypertension at Northwestern Medicine, donated her own kidney to help someone waiting for a transplant — and to inspire others to do the same.
Diversity in Transplant Care
In recognition of Donate Life month, chief of Cardiology Dr. Clyde Yancy moderated a discussion with transplant surgeon Dr. Dinee Simpson and Director of the Hispanic Transplant Program, Dr. Juan Carlos Caicedo, about how our health system is making strides towards diversity in transplant care.