Cedars-Sinai Medical Center - Archive Transplant Research, Plastic Surgery
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2026
July
09,
2026
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06:00 AM
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At her 20-week ultrasound, Marisol Pineda expected a routine glimpse at her soon-to-be third baby boy. Instead, the doctors delivered Pineda and her husband, Javier, some unexpected news. Luka Pineda would be born with a cleft lip and a cleft …
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2025
August
21,
2025
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07:30 AM
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Innovative transplant nephrologist and investigator Stanley Jordan, MD, has received the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Transplantation.Jordan, the director of Nephrology and medical director of the Cedars-Sinai Kidney …
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May
08,
2025
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Dominic Emerson, MD, a leader in heart and lung transplantation as well as robotic surgical techniques, has been named associate director of the Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center. In 2021, Emerson and a team of Cedars-Sinai surgeons …
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April
18,
2025
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09:00 AM
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KTLA 5 recently interviewed Victor Chien, MD, a plastic surgeon in the Jim and Eleanor Randall Department of Surgery at Cedars-Sinai, and Curtis L. Cetrulo Jr., MD, the department’s vice chair of Research, about performing the first FDA-approved …
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March
10,
2025
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06:00 AM
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Last October, the night before Deven Phillips was to undergo her second lymphatic surgery, she received an unexpected call from her surgeon."He casually asked me, ‘Deven, what do you think about a robot doing your surgery?’” Phillips said. “I asked …
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February
28,
2025
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08:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center and the Smidt Heart Institute set a new record in 2024 by completing 682 solid organ transplants—the most the medical center has performed in a year—as patient survival outcomes continued to meet or …
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February
18,
2025
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15:03 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai has successfully performed the first robot-assisted microsurgical head and neck cancer reconstructive surgery in the United States after the robot device received Food and Drug Administration approval for the procedure, marking a …
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2024
December
18,
2024
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Cedars-Sinai is participating in a major national research and surgical effort aimed at curing total blindness through whole eye transplantation, a pioneering approach to restoring vision. The organization has been selected to receive up to $6 …
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April
02,
2024
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Curtis L. Cetrulo Jr., MD, vice chair of Research in the Department of Surgery and director of the Division of Plastic Surgery, has been selected as the General William and Willa Dean Lyon Family Chair in Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery.Cetrulo …
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2023
December
15,
2023
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07:00 AM
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New research from Cedars-Sinai’s Comprehensive Transplant Center found that a monoclonal antibody treatment reduced the risk of COVID-19 in a large group of solid organ transplant patients who were administered the drug as a preventive measure …
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