UCSF Abdominal Transplant Program

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Mom's Kidney Donation To Ailing Son Means Family Toddler Home For Holidays For 1st Time "This is going to be our first Christmas home since he's been born. Every Christmas time since he's been born, he's been in the hospital. So, I’m excited this is our first Christmas home."

UCSF Abdominal Transplant Program updated their website address.

Our Liver Transplant Program completed another successful Transplant Conference with a record high number of attendance. Special thanks to our speakers for their informative presentations, generating several educational discussions. Thank you also to our sponsors, especially Novartis and Gilead who without their support, this event would not be possible. We enjoyed ending this year with such a memorable conference and look forward to seeing everyone again next year.

We are so happy to hear that baby Kingston is doing so well after his liver transplant. Our transplant team wishes Kingston and his family a wonderful holiday season.

Dr. Nancy Ascher, the first woman in the world to conduct a liver transplant, right here at UCSF, shared a few words of wisdom during International Women’s Month earlier this year.

Follow along this month as we share some of our most inspiring quotes of 2019.

We are so honored to be a part of the Paired Transplant Centers Program sponsored by The Transplantation Society-International Liver Transplantation Society (TTS-ILTS). A team lead by Dr. Maria Matamoros from Hospital Mexico in Costa Rica visited UCSF for a week-long stay to learn first-hand about all aspects of UCSF’s liver transplant program.

UCSF Kidney Transplant Program is being featured as one of the divisions in this year’s pre-recorded broadcast at ASN’s Kidney Week 2019 (November 5-10, 2019). We are showcasing the fantastic work they do in this video. Among quality related items like the size of our program and outcomes, they are highlighting our clinical nephrology fellowship and the collaborative work done between surgeons and nephrologists. Congrats, Kidney Transplant!

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University of California, San Francisco Kidney Transplant Center Challenge is Welcome at the University of California, San Francisco Kidney Transplant Center. University of California, San Francisco Kidney Transplant Cente...

Please join us in welcoming our newest Assistant Professor, Dr. James Gardner to the Division of Transplant Surgery!

Dr. Gardner earned his BA from Harvard University in Biochemical Sciences and both his MD and PhD degrees from UCSF. He then completed his General Surgery Residency at UCSF followed by a two-year clinical fellowship in Transplant Surgery. Dr. Gardner is the first surgeon to be awarded an appointment to the prestigious Physician-Scientist Scholar Program (PSSP), part of the UCSF Sandler Fellows Program.

We are so happy to have him joining our team.

Thank you everyone for joining us this year at our Annual Chris Mudge Pediatric Transplant Picnic at McNears Beach, California on August 3, 2019. Huge thanks to our volunteers and donors for making this event a huge success! Also, thanks for Groove Teknicians (DJ), Sea Trek Kayak and SUP Center, and Spotlight Promotions! Thanks to all our artists for doing such a great job: Lauren Greene (Facepainter), Alapi Bhatt (Henna Artist), and Suzy Q (Balloon Aritst) for creating such a fun atmosphere for the kids. Please enjoy the photos from that day.

Celebrating life with our donor and recipients patients' family.

We are excited to introduce our two new Abdominal Transplant Fellows, Carrie Thiessen and Steve Wisel!

On September 7th, 2019 Donor Network West will host the 9th Annual Donate Life Run/Walk 5K, 10K and Kids Dash. Please join UCSF Health and run or walk the 5K or 10K through Bishop Ranch in San Ramon.

The Donate Life Run/Walk helps to raise awareness of the need for organ and tissue donors in California. All proceeds from the event will benefit the effort to inspire California residents to register on the Donate Life California Organ and Tissue Donor Registry and to honor the donors and their families who have already given the Gift of Life.

To join Team UCSF Health follow these steps:

1) Visit 5k.dnwest.org

2) Click “Register” then "Join a Team" button, then Join as a New Participant. Search for my team (UCSF Health Transplant Services) and continue through the registration process.

UCSF Kidney Transplant hosted our annual “UCSF Kidney Transplant Program Spring Meeting” held on Friday, May 17th and Saturday, May 18th, 2019 at the Silverado Resort in Napa, California.

It was made possible by our sponsors Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation and Sanofi Genzyme and designed to provide a unique opportunity to hear our Kidney Transplant experts. They presented a comprehensive review and update on recent advances in Kidney Transplantation. Leaders in the field shared their medical and surgical expertise with regional physicians and allied health care professionals. Sessions included therapeutic advances in transplant, the management of patients with kidney disease and other contemporary topics.

Another great year for the UCSF Women in Surgery event!

These are such strong quotes from Dr. Ascher. She is someone that isn't afraid to break barriers and she is also such an inspirational role model for women everywhere.

“I love doing what I’m told not to do,” says Nancy Ascher. “When I was first in college, I was told, ‘You may want to go into psychology. Medicine is too long, too hard.’

I got to medical school and I was told, ‘Medical school’s great, but you don’t want to go into surgery. Surgery is too hard, too demanding.’

When I got to residency, the word was that transplant was the pinnacle in terms of commitment and technical expertise. So I picked that.”

Ascher went on to become the first woman in the world to conduct a liver transplant, right here at UCSF.

This Women's History Month, join us in saluting trailblazing in health and science.

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We are so proud of this little super hero!

Little Allie’ Celebrates New Lease on Life Little Allie took part in the 23rd Annual University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) Pediatric Transplant Picnic reunion on Saturday, Aug. 4, in San Rafael, along with his grateful parents. Now three-and-one-half years old, Allie now lives with his Coast Guard family in Alameda. He was only on...

The annual Pediatric Transplant Picnic took place on Saturday, August 4th, and was a huge success! Thank you to everyone that came out, our amazing and hard working volunteers, and our generous donors! You all help make this event possible every year!

https://kidneyregistry.org/pages/p471/NKR_2018_Awards_Winners.php

Our kidney and liver transplant program received the Terasaki Medical Innovation award. We successfully completed the world’s first combined liver-kidney exchange. This is the first paired exchange where a liver was swapped for a kidney. We received the award last month at the Annual NKR Award Gala, nominated alongside Emory, Cornell, and UCLA.

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We are excited to introduce our two surgical fellows, Dr. Seiji Yamaguchi and Dr. Zachary Dietch. Welcome to UCSF!

We are so happy to announce the addition of Dr. Shareef Syed to our faculty! Dr. Syed completed his UCSF abdominal transplant fellowship in July, and has joined our transplant faculty. And now there are ten!
Welcome Dr. Syed!

Such a great story!

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Craigslist ad brings together dying Oakland man, kidney donor An Oakland man’s Craigslist ad for a kidney donor led him to a Southern California woman who on Tuesday donated her left kidney to him, but their connection actually started 30 years ago.

Join Team UCSF for the 2018 National Kidney Foundation Walk!

This year, UCSF is participating in the San Francisco Kidney Walk on Sunday June 10, and UCSF is pleased to announce that Reece Fawley, Vice President, Health Plan Strategy & Managed Care,
Chief Contracting Officer, is serving as Chairman.

UCSF has confirmed sponsorship support at the $20,000 level. In addition, Team UCSF has set a team fundraising goal of raising $25,000 (or more) to support kidney patients. We need your help to reach our goal! For any event to be truly successful, we need committed and energetic people to raise excitement and recruit fellow team members. YOU can be that person. Become a Kidney Champion by registering as a kidney walker and recruiting friends, family members, and colleagues to join you. Visit Team UCSF’s webpage to sign up and kick off your fundraising efforts today: http://donate.kidney.org/goto/ucsf.

Should you have any questions about the Kidney Walk, please feel free to contact Carolyn Light at [email protected] or our NKF partner, Angela Smith, at [email protected].

Through the Kidney Walk, UCSF has a chance to come together as a united team to show our support of the kidney patient community!

Together, we can make a difference in the lives of the many patients with kidney disease.

Support UCSF - Keeping it Renal Kidney Walk I'm helping UCSF - Keeping it Renal raise awareness and funds for lifesaving programs that educate and support patients, their families and those at risk for kidney disease. Support National Kidney Foundation today!

Congratulations Drs. Feng and Stock!

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Transplant Surgery - Transplant-Surgeons-Sandy-Feng-and-Peter-Stock-Rank-in-Top-20-of-All-NIH-Funded-Principal-Investigators-for-2017 Transplant surgeons Sandy Feng, M.D., Ph.D. and Peter G. Stock, M.D., Ph.D. continued their stellar records of accomplishment in garnering NIH funding for their cutting-edge clinical research, ranking in the top 20 of all NIH-Funded principal investigators nationally for 2017. Stock ranked 8th and F...

Our very own Dr. Stock!

Joe is celebrating the 1-year anniversary of his kidney ! He became a grandpa this year! https://t.co/lHYFkEvpWq

UCSF Medical Center on Twitter “Joe is celebrating the 1-year anniversary of his kidney ! He became a grandpa this year! ”

Another great story about living donor kidney donation. Cotati woman keeps pledge to donate a kidney

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Cotati woman fine with 1 less kidney; recipient happy with 1 more

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The voice of Fresno State sports donates a kidney to a friend Paul Loeffler is recovering from kidney surgery. He gave one of his kidneys to R. Michel Alexander of Fresno.

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Her mom needed a kidney, so she donated part of her liver to someone else UCSF Medical Center performed a kidney and liver swap on July 20, 2017. Six months later, the fours patient met for the first time.

Selena Gomez Reveals Her Best Friend Gave Her a Kidney Selena Gomez shared a photo of the friends holding hands from their hospital beds as well as photos of her stomach following the surgery