The Health Alliance Hospitals Celebrate 65 Years of Kidney Transplantation
Contact: Pat Samson or Emily Evans (513) 585-7200 05/31/2002
Cincinnati--The University Hospital and The Christ Hospital will together celebrate 65 years of kidney transplantation at The Marriott Kingsgate Conference Center on Sunday, June 2, 2002, from 2 to 4 p.m. The University Hospital will celebrate 35 years while The Christ Hospital will celebrate 30 years. Transplant recipients, family members, physicians and staff are expected to attend. Representative Greg Jolivette (R-Hamilton), Ohio House of Representatives, will deliver the keynote address. Rep. Jolivette has been instrumental in lobbying the Donor Leave Act and the Organ Donor Registry Bill into law in Ohio.
In 1967, J. Wesley Alexander, M.D., founded the kidney transplant program at The University Hospital. The first kidney transplant at University was a living donor kidney transplant performed on Dec. 11, 1967. The University Hospital holds several world records for kidney transplant survival including the world's longest surviving living-related transplant recipient with diabetes and the world's longest functioning combined kidney and pancreas transplant. More than 1,300 kidney transplants have been performed since the program's inception.
The first kidney transplant at The Christ Hospital was performed on Jan. 30, 1972. This program is one of the most successful in the country and is renowned for its success and achievements in living kidney transplantation. The Christ Hospital has performed more than 1,050 kidney transplants.
Together, these programs have been recognized nationally and internationally for their excellence and contributions in the field of transplantation. In fact, during the 2002 American Transplant Congress Meeting in Washington D.C., the University of Cincinnati transplant programs had the largest number of scientific presentations among transplant programs in the United States.
The University Hospital and The Christ Hospital are part of the Health Alliance, an integrated health care delivery system that also includes The St. Luke Hospitals, The Jewish Hospital, The Fort Hamilton Hospital and the physicians of Alliance Primary Care. </p><br>
Cincinnati--The University Hospital and The Christ Hospital will together celebrate 65 years of kidney transplantation at The Marriott Kingsgate Conference Center on Sunday, June 2, 2002, from 2 to 4 p.m. The University Hospital will celebrate 35 years while The Christ Hospital will celebrate 30 years. Transplant recipients, family members, physicians and staff are expected to attend. Representative Greg Jolivette (R-Hamilton), Ohio House of Representatives, will deliver the keynote address. Rep. Jolivette has been instrumental in lobbying the Donor Leave Act and the Organ Donor Registry Bill into law in Ohio.
