Transfixed by Transplants
Meet Jefferson transplant surgeon Warren Maley, MD, leads Jefferson’s Live Donor Liver Transplant Program and gives his time and expertise to make transplants available in Bolivia.
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Two Men Sharing a Christmas Gift of Life
Participating in any life-saving transplant is a special event: it provides someone in need with a new chance at a healthy life with his or her loved ones. Doing so on Christmas is particularly gratifying.
Share Your “I Can” Story on Beating Cancer
With the prospects of a liver transplant dimming and told he had just 6 months to live, Larry turned to the liver cancer specialists at Jefferson who helped this veteran fighter pilot overcome his cancer.
A Liver Donation Links and Saves Two Lives
Although she’s just four years old, Assiah Phinisee of Philadelphia is now linked to singer and actor Bobby Rydell, and is a key reason that he is once again performing his hit songs from the 1950s and 60s. That’s because Assiah, who was diagnosed with a rare condition affecting the bile ducts shortly after her more »
Orchestrating Bobby Rydell’s Liver and Kidney Transplants
When South Philly native Bobby Rydell, who rose to prominence as an actor and singer in the 1950s and 60s, needed a liver transplant as well as a new kidney, he turned to the transplant specialists at Jefferson University Hospitals. “Mr. Rydell did not have very long to live,” says Cataldo Doria, MD, PhD, FACS, more »