As waiting lists for lung transplants grow, so does the demand for robust and trustworthy transplant programs in the United States. Since opening in 2007, University of Iowa Health Care’s lung transplant program has served as a successful model for institutions’ transplant services nationwide. The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) recently validated this tradition […]
Julia Klesney-Tait, MD, PhD, associate professor in Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine, was appointed to the national Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Lung Transplantation Committee. During this three-year appointment Klesney-Tait will represent the interests of Region 8, which includes Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Colorado, and Kansas. The Lung Transplantation Committee is a national committee of […]