On a crisp, clear Sunday morning in early June, a Mount Sinai Health System team of more than 100 strong participated in the 2015 Liver Life Walk at Hudson River Park. Among the enthusiastic participants who walked the three-mile course and raised more than $20,000 to support the American Liver Foundation was Jennifer Long, a patient at Mount Sinai’s Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute. (more…)
Guest post by Kelly Smith, donate life advocate and Cloudy Day Gray blogger.
Before Matilda was born, I didn’t know anything about pediatric organ donation. I had never really considered the fact that children even experienced organ failure. And, I certainly had never considered the fact that the organ donors may need to be children themselves. These aren’t the things that parents want to think about. (more…)
A young woman who underwent a high-stakes liver transplant at The Mount Sinai Hospital in May is now safely back home thanks to an extraordinary collaboration between Stephan Mayer, MD, Director of the Institute for Critical Care Medicine, and Sander Florman, MD, Charles Miller, MD, Professor of Surgery and Director of the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute, and their teams.