Multi-Organ Transplant Program

A generation ago, a patient with a failing heart, kidneys, pancreas or liver had little chance of survival. Fortunately, today that has all changed. The Multi-Organ Transplant Program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences offers these patients needing an organ transplant outstanding hope for living a longer, healthy life. UAMS now performs heart, liver, kidney and kidney-pancreas transplants.

A History of Firsts

Our experience in organ transplants is unsurpassed in Arkansas. The state’s first kidney transplant was performed at UAMS in 1964. The state’s first kidney-pancreas transplant was performed at UAMS in 1991. Our heart transplant program began in 1992, and in 2005, UAMS made history again by performing the state’s first liver transplant.

Consolidated Transplant Services for Exceptional Care

Today, all of our transplant services are integrated into the Multi-Organ Transplant Program, which ensures the very best care and service before, during and after an organ transplant.

Every patient benefits from the extensive expertise of dozens of specialists, including transplant physicians, surgeons and coordinators, oncologists, radiologists and anesthesiologists. Our nursing staff, physical therapists, dietitians and support staff provide compassionate, highly skilled care. Our social workers, psychologists and financial counselors stand ready to help.

Our patients benefit tremendously from the combined knowledge and experience of our excellent faculty physicians. Our research and educational programs ensure that our patients have access to the very latest treatment methods and technologies. All transplant patients are grouped together in private rooms on one floor of the hospital and are attended by a nursing staff dedicated exclusively to the care of transplant patients.