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Jean Adams is always on the move: packing gear, checking maps and plotting her next hike. At the end of 2022, the 59-year-old retiree set the goal of hiking the entire Ice Age Trail in 2023 to show what a kidney donor can accomplish.
University of Wisconsin-MadisonThe UW Health Transplant Center is one of the few transplant centers in the country that has transplanted more than 12,000 kidneys.
University of Wisconsin-MadisonUW Health welcomed its first patients to the new Pleasant T. Rowland Transplant Clinic at University Hospital this morning. The new 10,000-square-foot clinic serves adult patients who are being evaluated for or who have received an organ transplant, as well as those who give the gift of life through living organ donation.
University of Wisconsin-MadisonAji Djamali, MD, Maine Medical Center’s Chair of the Department of Medicine recently donated his kidney to a former patient at the UW Health Transplant Center (UW Health) in Madison, Wisconsin. Djamali, who was a professor of medicine and surgery and transplant nephrologist leading the division of nephrology at UW Health, is making his donation…
University of Wisconsin-MadisonThe UW Health Transplant Center performed 64 paired kidney exchanges in 2020, more than any other transplant center in the country.
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