{"id":11332,"date":"2025-01-10T11:01:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/transplant\/?page_id=11332"},"modified":"2025-04-28T09:29:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T13:29:01","slug":"transplant-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/transplant\/transplant\/transplant-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Transplant News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;height: 437px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 312px\">\n<td style=\"width: 100%;height: 312px\">\n<h4 class=\"entry-title\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/transplant\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/680\/2025\/04\/IMG_7555-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"447\" height=\"947\" \/><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 42px\">\n<td style=\"width: 100%;height: 42px\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/unc-surgeons-launched-a-robotic-kidney-transplant-program-expanding-access-for-high-risk-patients\/\">UNC Surgeons Launched a Robotic Kidney Transplant Program Expanding Access for High-Risk Patients<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 83px\">\n<td style=\"width: 100%;height: 83px\">UNC School of Medicine\u2019s Living Donor Liver Transplant program has been recognized by the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) as a center with expertise to offer Living Donor Liver Transplants. Sorabh Kapoor, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Abdominal Transplantation, will serve as the Surgical Director of the program. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/unc-surgeons-launched-a-robotic-kidney-transplant-program-expanding-access-for-high-risk-patients\/\">read more&#8230;<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;height: 437px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 312px\">\n<td style=\"width: 100%;height: 312px\">\n<h4 class=\"entry-title\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/854\/2025\/01\/Kapoor-and-Desai-Headsho.png\" \/><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 42px\">\n<td style=\"width: 100%;height: 42px\">\n<h4 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.unchealthcare.org\/2024\/12\/unc-school-of-medicines-living-donor-liver-transplant-program-receives-full-approval\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UNC School of Medicine\u2019s Living Donor Liver Transplant Program Receives Full Approval<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 83px\">\n<td style=\"width: 100%;height: 83px\">UNC School of Medicine\u2019s Living Donor Liver Transplant program has been recognized by the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) as a center with expertise to offer Living Donor Liver Transplants. Sorabh Kapoor, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Abdominal Transplantation, will serve as the Surgical Director of the program. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.unchealthcare.org\/2024\/12\/unc-school-of-medicines-living-donor-liver-transplant-program-receives-full-approval\/\">read more&#8230;<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/854\/2025\/01\/IMG_7619-300x289-1.png\" width=\"446\" height=\"405\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%\">\n<h4 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.unchealthcare.org\/2023\/05\/a-daughters-gift-unc-hospitals-performs-first-living-donor-liver-transplant-in-twenty-years\/\">A Daughter\u2019s Gift: UNC Hospitals Performs First Living Donor Liver Transplant in Twenty Years<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%\">Meredith Stiehl received a partial-liver transplant from her daughter Kenan, the first-ever living donor procedure at UNC Hospitals to be conducted in twenty years. Chirag Desai, MD, FACS, led the care team that performed the procedure.. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.unchealthcare.org\/2023\/05\/a-daughters-gift-unc-hospitals-performs-first-living-donor-liver-transplant-in-twenty-years\/\">read more&#8230;<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;height: 455px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 432px\">\n<td style=\"width: 100%;height: 370px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/854\/2025\/01\/pancreatitis_image.jpeg\" width=\"446\" height=\"367\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 42px\">\n<td style=\"width: 100%;height: 42px\">\n<h4 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.unchealthcare.org\/2024\/12\/how-uncs-chronic-pancreatitis-and-autologous-islet-cell-transplant-program-provides-holistic-life-changing-care\/\">How UNC\u2019s Chronic Pancreatitis and Autologous Islet Cell Transplant Program Provides Holistic, Life-Changing Care<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 43px\">\n<td style=\"width: 100%;height: 43px\">The UNC Chronic Pancreatitis and Autologous Islet Cell Transplant Program, led by Chirag S. 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