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Well, first and foremost, Johns Hopkins' one of the best hospitals
in the country, if not, the world.
And I think this alone should be a reason why
people should come to Johns Hopkins.
But aside from that, we have a very strong transplant center and
involves all organ types.
Johns Hopkins, because it's a great institution,
has very high standards for excellence.
And as a result,
we're able to recruit some of the best surgeons in all fields.
We have great thoracic transplant surgeons,
heart transplant surgeons, liver transplant surgeons, me included.
And kidney transplant surgeons, as well as pancreas transplant
surgeons, so really encompass the whole field.
As well as pediatrics, we have a great pediatrics hospital here.
And pediatric transplantation is also a strong point of this program.
The other strength of this institution is that other services,
departments, and divisions are equally strong.
So we work with excellent nephrologists,
we work with excellent hepotologists, we work with
excellent cardiologists, and excellent pulmonologists.
We work across the field.
We have great support to deliver the best patient care possible.
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And, well, first and foremost, I think we have a great staff,
and people who are involved in patient care.
This institution breeds people who have a lot of passion for
what they do, and this comes from all levels of patient care.
Whether it's nursing, physician, surgeon.
And as a result, it can transplant benefits from that,
because we have people who really care.
And transplantation is a field where we're saving lives.
And that in itself generates a passion for the field.
And we feel that passion at all levels again.
So the nurses are really into what they do.
The coordinators are into what they do.
And the physicians and surgeons are very dedicated, and
love what they do because of the effect that we have on people.
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Johns Hopkins is really a leader in innovation and research.
And transplantation has benefited from that, for example, the first
laparoscopic donor nephrectomy was done here at Johns Hopkins.
This is a procedure that minimizes
the incisions in taking out a person who wants to donate a kidney.
So instead of getting a big cut or a big scar.
Now we work with small incisions, and we're able to extract the kidney
through small incisions, where we call minimally invasive.
So this was the birth place for it, and now it's become a gold standard.
So this is one of the strengths of this hospital, and
remains a strength of our program.
We're also have developed reputation of being able to transplant patients
that have historically not been able to be transplanted for
reasons such as being sensitized with antibodies, or
having incompatible kidney donors.
And with the innovations that were involved with that,
now include many teams such as the immunology lab, the nature lab,
the hemitology department, with the plasma free system.
We've been able to build an infrastructure to be able to get
these patients transplanted effectively.
As a matter of fact, a recent publication came out in one of
the premiere journals in [INAUDIBLE] Journal Medicine.
That talks about our great successes and long term results with our,
what we call incompatible kidney transplant program.
So this remains as a significant strength at Hopkins for
kidney transplantation.
We have a very strong interventional radiology division,
which also is one of the key players in being able to
take care of these patients with liver cancers.
So we have been able to partner with very,
very strong divisions to be able to offer things
that may be unique here, or better here than other places.
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