
Awake Kidney Transplantation: A Revolution in Transplant Care
Surgeons at Northwestern Medicine performed a kidney transplant on a patient who remained awake during the surgery without general anesthesia and was discharged home less than 24 hours after surgery. It's the first awake kidney transplant performed at Northwestern Medicine.

California Doctor Receives First Combined Lung-liver Transplant for Advanced Lung Cancer in U.S.
Gary Gibbon, MD, a pulmonologist and allergist from Santa Monica, traveled to Chicago for a first-of-its-kind transplant procedure, becoming the first person in the U.S. to receive a double-lung and liver transplant for advanced lung cancer.

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.