Renal Transplant Program

The renal transplant program at the Medical College of Georgia has two full-time transplant surgeons and two transplant nephrologists who oversee the care of patients receiving deceased and living donor renal transplants as well as simultaneous kidney-pancreas transplants.  This program has been one of the 50 most active transplant centers in the country.  With extramural grant funding, we have increased our staff of coordinators and physician’s assistants which has helped our waiting list grow to over 350 patients in the last two years.   These increased listings will facilitate increasing numbers of transplants at our center over the next 3-5 year period.  We have completed 110 kidney and 3 kidney-pancreas transplants of which 33 were living donor transplants as of January, 2008. We continue to be excited about our Phase II and III clinical trials; particularly with the prospect of using co-stimulation blockade as a replacement for cyclosporine in the immunosuppression regimen along with minimizing the use of corticosteroids.

Revised November 17, 2008.   Please send comments, suggestions or questions about this page to Judy Sanders, jsanders@mcg.edu .