• Celebrating 10,000 Solid Organ Transplants

• 53 Years of Lifesaving Organ Transplants

  Since our transplant program first began in 1967, the Comprehensive Transplant Center at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center has become a world leader in lifesaving care and transplant research, providing heart, lung, kidney, liver, pancreas and kidney-pancreas transplants.
  
  Our established team of specialty trained transplant experts includes: 
  

  • Disease specialists
  • Transplant surgeons
  • Infectious disease physicians
  • Transplant coordinators
  • Advanced practice providers
  • Social workers
  • Psychiatrists
  • Transplant pharmacists

  Being an academic medical center allows us access to the latest treatments and clinical trials of new immunosuppressive drugs and anti-rejection therapies. Our current standard of care is using prednisone-free immunosuppressive medications, a regimen available to about one quarter of all patients in the United States.
  

• Excellence and Experience

  • #10 transplant program, by volume, in the United States in 2019
  • 10,000 solid organ transplants since 1967 - a milestone achieved by less than 10% of all U.S. transplant centers
  • More than 500 organ transplants performed each year
  • Recognized as one of America's Best Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report for the 27th year in a row
  • Multidisciplinary research collaboration with Nationwide Children’s Hospital at the Center for the Epidemiological Study of Organ Failure and Transplantation (CESOT) to improve outcomes in transplantation worldwide
  • Members of the Acute Liver Failure Study Group, a collaborative network of 28 hospitals that have studied more than 3,000 cases of acute liver failure
  • One of the largest and most experienced kidney-pancreas centers in the world
  • Ability to perform living donor transplants of both the kidney and liver
  • Only experts in central Ohio to perform Auto Islet cell transplantation to cure end state pancreatitis, which left untreated leads to diabetes

  
  

• Transplant Firsts at Ohio State

  1967 — Living donor kidney transplant (Ohio State’s first organ transplant)
  
  1983 — One of the first centers in the U.S. to study cyclosporine, an immunosuppressant that revolutionized transplantation
  
  1984 — Liver transplant (first in Ohio)
  

  1985 — Pancreas transplant
  
  1988 — Combined kidney-pancreas transplant
  
  1986 — Heart transplant
  
  1998 — Lung transplant
  
  1999 — Double lung transplant
  
  1999 — Laparoscopic kidney donor surgery
  
  2005 — Combined heart-double lung transplant kidney paired donation
  
  2006 — One of very few sites in North America approved to process pancreatic islet cells for transplantation that may cure type 1 diabetes
  
  2006 — Fourth institution in the country certified to implant the temporary CardioWest™ Total Artificial Heart, which serves as a bridge to transplant
  
  2011 — Islet cell transplant
  
  2011 — Six-way kidney transplant – largest living donor kidney transplant chain performed in Ohio to date
  
  2016 — Lung-kidney transplant (only 37 performed is U.S. since 1995)
  
  2016 — One of only 20 centers nationwide chosen to participate in the NOVEL clinical trial with XVIVO Perfusion, potentially doubling the donor pool of lungs for transplantation
  
  2017 — Split liver transplant
  
  2018 — Living donor liver transplant (one of two locations able to perform in Ohio)

  2018 — One of a select few transplant centers currently involved in the normo thermic ex-vivo liver perfusion clinical phase study

  2019 — Heart-liver transplant

  2020 — Eight-way kidney transplant – largest single-institution living donor kidney transplant chain performed in Ohio to date

Our Services

• Heart Transplantation
• Lung Transplantation
• Liver Transplantation
• Kidney Transplantation
• Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation
• Pancreas Transplantation
• Auto Islet Transplantation
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