Transplant Excellence award

UW Medical Center's Kidney Transplant Program has been awarded INTERLINK’s 2025 Chairman’s Award for Transplant Excellence as the top-performing kidney transplant program in the nation. The award is given to programs that had the highest overall quality scores in the U.S. 

Our kidney and liver programs also each received INTERLINK’s ELITE Status Award, having demonstrated superior results across a wide range of validated, risk-adjusted metrics.

Each year INTERLINK, a national managed care company, identifies the nation’s top-performing transplant programs within their Programs of Excellence network. 

Dr. Nicolae Leca, professor (Nephrology) is medical director of the UW Medicine Transplant Institute.