Improving transplant care

UW Medicine has launched the Transplant Institute, a consolidated program that will enhance coordination efforts across our transplant programs and take our already outstanding services to a new level. The program will be co-led by interim medical and surgical directors Barbara Jung, MD, and Douglas Wood, MD, respectively.

The program brings together UW Medicine’s organ transplant services: liver, kidney, pancreas and lung (although the lung transplant program’s leadership structure will remain unchanged, it will coordinate with the institute.)

“The Transplant Institute will build on all the work done at UW Medicine to lead in transplantation in the region and beyond and provide us with a structure that is built on partnership so that we can work together even more seamlessly across disciplines. I am very proud of what has been accomplished so far and excited about this next step that will propel us forward,” says Jung.