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The Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center provides complete care if you need an organ transplant. Our transplant specialists understand the challenges you face and are here to provide compassionate care, along with hope for a longer, healthier life.

  • Comprehensive Transplant Services

    Our center is one of Southern California’s most successful facilities for heart, liver, kidney and pancreas transplantation.

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  • Experts in Transplant Care

    We offer transplant care from providers who are leaders in their specialties and who understand your unique needs.

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  • Highly Sensitized Transplants

    One-third of patients needing a kidney transplant are highly HLA-sensitized. We can provide the lifesaving care you need.

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Become a Living Kidney Donor

Living kidney donation is a life‑changing option for many transplant patients. We offer paired exchanges to help match more donors and recipients.

The Latest From Cedars-Sinai Transplant

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A Year After Transplant, Cured Diabetes Patient Graduates, Celebrates

The choice was ice cream or chocolate cake. After a successful kidney-pancreas transplant at the Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center, Janine Roberson was thrilled to finally...

Double Lung Transplant Gives Arizona Dad Time to See Kids Grow Up

Chris McCain was dying. He knew it. His wife, daughter and son also knew it. Years ago, at age 37, Chris had undergone a double...

Heart Transplant No. 2 Gives Destany Another Chance

When life gets bleak for Destany Epps-Manuel, 36, she knows the only way to go is forward. That’s what she’s been doing since she was...

Protecting Health Span as Important as Protecting Lifespan

Sometimes the side effects of treating a disease aren’t worth the benefits. But how do you know?

Cedars-Sinai Receives up to $6 Million to Develop Eye Transplantation Procedures to Cure Blindness

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...

Perfect Match: Woman Donates Lifesaving Kidney to Her Identical Twin

Identical twins Linda Thomas and Karen Rodman, 56, have shared everything from the moment they were born. The Las Vegas residents live less than five...

Study: Transplant Possible After Immunotherapy for Advanced Liver Cancer Patients

Liver transplant is considered the best treatment for liver cancer, but only available for patients with early-stage disease. Now a study led by Cedars-Sinai Cancer...

OR Talk: Triple Organ Transplant

The Cedars-Sinai transplantation team shares what it is like to perform a rare and challenging triple organ transplant.

New Year, New Heart, New Lease on Life

Charles Schulz and his wife, Flor, sat in their living room on New Year’s Eve 2023, watching TV and counting down the seconds until the...

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Meet Our Doctors

Irene K. Kim, MD

Director, Comprehensive Transplant Center

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Todd V. Brennan, MD, MS, FACS

Director, Pancreas Transplant

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Fardad Esmailian, MD

Surgical Director, Heart Transplant

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Stanley C. Jordan, MD

Director, Division of Nephrology

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Jon A. Kobashigawa, MD

Associate Director, Clinical Affairs

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Alexander Kuo, MD

Medical Director, Liver Transplantation, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

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Dominick J. Megna, MD

Surgical Director, Lung Transplant Program

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Nicholas N. Nissen, MD

Director, Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery

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Alice Peng, MD

Associate Professor, Medicine

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Reinaldo E. Rampolla, MD

Medical Director, Lung Transplant Program

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Steven A. Wisel, MD

Interim Surgical Director, Pancreas Transplantation

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Debunking Myths About Organ Donation

What is the Greatest Myth About Organ Donation? - Irene Kim, MD | Cedars-Sinai
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      Are you considering becoming an organ donor but unsure due to common myths? Dr. Irene Kim, director of the Comprehensive Transplant Center, dispels the misconceptions and sheds light on the facts.

      Transplant Research & Clinical Trials

      Cedars‑Sinai researchers are always investigating new technologies and techniques for transplant care. Our research helps us care for more patients with more complex cases.

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      Bench to Bedside Breakthroughs

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      Peter Heeger, MD, director of the Transplant Immunology Program

      Can Individualized Transplant Care Improve Outcomes?

      Cedars-Sinai transplant investigators seek to determine whether a more granular understanding of HLA matching can lead to personalized therapies and better outcomes.

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      Studies Seek Better RA Screening

      Investigators at the Kao Autoimmunity Institute seek to define better screening and risk assessment for rheumatoid arthritis patients.

      Cedars-Sinai Selects New Associate Director of Comprehensive Transplant Center

      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...

      Cedars-Sinai Sets New Record in Organ Transplantation

      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...

      Cedars-Sinai Receives up to $6 Million to Develop Eye Transplantation Procedures to Cure Blindness

      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...

      Study: Solid Organ Transplant Patients Benefit From COVID-19 Treatment

      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...

      Hitting Stem Cell and CAR T Targets

      The Stem Cell and Bone Marrow Transplant Program at Cedars-Sinai Cancer was recently recognized with two important hallmarks of quality: official accreditation for CAR T-cell...

      Analysis: A Longer View on COVID-19 Antibodies

      A new analysis by Cedars-Sinai investigators is furthering the scientific community’s understanding of COVID-19 immunity by showing that similar levels of COVID-19 antibodies are reached...

      Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center Welcomes New Faculty

       Peter Heeger, MD, Justin Steggerda, MD, Hirsh Trivedi, MD, and Lorenzo Zaffiri, MD, PhD, have all recently joined the Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center. “We are...

      Innovative Training. Elevated Teaching.

      We offer comprehensive specialty training in all aspects of transplantation surgery and care. Our fellows learn from some of the best surgeons in the country as they train to become the next generation of transplant specialists.

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      Call the Comprehensive Transplant Center team directly at 310‑423-2641,
      Monday‑Friday, 8 am-5 pm PT.

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