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1988
Dr. William Frist and Dr. Harold Helderman are named surgical and medical directors of the newly developed Vanderbilt Transplant Center, centralizing transplant programs within a single entity
Performs Tennessee’s first living unrelated kidney transplant
Renal Transplant Fellowship established
1989
Performs Tennessee’s first neonatal heart transplant
Performs its first combined kidney/pancreas transplant
1990
Lung transplant program launches
Performs its first single lung transplant
Performs Tennessee’s first allogeneic-unrelated bone marrow transplant
1991
Liver transplant program launches
Performs its first liver transplant
Transplant Infectious Disease Fellowship established
Opening of VUMC’s dedicated myelosuppression unit
1992
Vanderbilt Transplant Center organizes return of the organ donation statement to the Tennessee driver’s license
1993
Dr. C. Wright Pinson appointed surgical director of Vanderbilt Transplant Center when Frist steps down to pursue U.S. Senate seat
Transplant psychiatry program established
1994
Performs Tennessee’s first successful double lung transplant
1995
Vanderbilt establishes Transplant Return-to-Work program, the first of its kind in the U.S.
2000
Vanderbilt establishes Transplant Outcomes Research and Quality of Life program (and is recognized nationally as premier leader in this area)
Performs its first triple-organ transplant of heart, lung and liver (one of only eight performed worldwide)
2003
Performs Tennessee’s first paired exchange kidney transplant
2004
Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt opens
2006
Transplant PGY2 Pharmacy Residency program established
2008
Performs its first simultaneous heart and kidney transplant
Heart Failure/Cardiac Transplant Fellowship established
2010
Berlin device (VAD) used for first time in Tennessee
2011
Dr. Seth Karp recruited from Harvard to serve as center’s director
2012
Kidney transplant program celebrates 50 years and surpasses 4,000 kidney transplants
2013
Heart transplant program is first in Tennessee to use the Heartware miniaturized ventricular assist device (VAD) for long-term support
Vanderbilt ranks among top five VAD programs in the nation
Vanderbilt Transplant Center surpasses a record 400 solid organ transplants in a single year