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.

The Northwestern Medicine Organ Transplant Center performed its 10,000th abdominal organ transplant procedure, becoming the first health system in Illinois to achieve that milestone.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When Margaret Rainey received a kidney from her daughter, she also got her stem cells. She is part of a clinical trial to use stem cell transplantation in place of anti-rejection medication to protect the donated organ.

Bi-racial couple discovers they are a match after search for a kidney for husband.

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.

Jason Wertheim, MD, PhD, is one of five Northwestern University faculty to be awarded with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

Two sisters' tribute to their late father sparked a chain of transplants that changed eight other lives.

About 3,400 people in Illinois await a kidney transplant—many for five years. A Northwestern Medicine team working to make new organs in the lab could cut that wait.

Jacquelyn Charleston has been waiting for a transplant for weeks. A liver from a living or deceased donor could save her life.