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Meet Helen Han, MD

Dr. Han is a transplant hepatologist who specializes in treating patients with liver diseases. Here’s what you won’t find on her…

How You Can Qualify to Be a Living Kidney Donor

What you need to know about donating a kidney A kidney transplant, which helps patients with kidney disease, including advanced…

How to Get Added to a Lung Transplant Waiting List

A Keck Medicine of USC expert explains the eligibility and evaluation processes. If you or a loved one is dealing…

Fit for Donation: Health Requirements to Be a Living Organ Donor

When living organ donors need to improve their health, Keck Medicine of USC’s Donate Well Program helps them shape up.…

Meet Takashi Harano, MD

Dr. Harano is a thoracic surgeon who specializes in lung transplantations at Keck Medicine of USC.  Here’s what you won’t…

How to Get Added to the Heart Transplant List

An expert details how you can get added to the heart transplant list at a qualified center such as Keck…

Why Heart Transplants Are So Rewarding and So Challenging Today

Demand for heart transplants still outstrips supply, but other advancements are improving the practice, says transplant cardiologist Ajay S. Vaidya,…

How to Be a Liver Donor

Learn how part of your liver could save someone’s life. Did you know that you can save someone’s life by…

Can a New Tool Better Screen Liver Transplant Candidates?

Keck Medicine of USC researchers are testing if a standardized screening process is more equitable for candidates — and more…

Rare Kidney-Liver Paired Exchange Performed at Keck Medicine of USC

Keck Medicine of USC transplant experts helped one set of siblings save another. A rare living-donor transplant exchange performed by…

Four Siblings, Two Donor Organs and Two Saved Lives

An incredible story of hope, family and medical innovation The problem seemed insurmountable. A young woman born with an incurable…

Liver Transplant Patient Celebrates Anniversary

Benigna Carrillo received the first liver transplant performed by USC doctors. On her transplant's 27th anniversary, she reflects on her…