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We offer comprehensive care with compassion and respect to children and teens with end-stage diseases of the heart, liver, kidneys and intestine. Your child’s care will be coordinated by transplant specialists dedicated to giving your family the information — and support — you’ll need all along the way.

  • We are committed to helping your child have a good quality of life and optimal growth — and to helping your entire family have a more active life.

  • Being an organ donor can change the lives of 50 people. Our leadership in the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) helps increase this awareness.

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Leadership

Patrick Healey, MD

Division Chief

Transplant Center

December, 1995

Meet the Transplant Team care team.

Areas of Focus

  • Excellent Outcomes

    For transplants done at Seattle Children’s, survival rates are better than the expected outcomes.

  • National Leadership

    We are one of the nation’s leading pediatric transplant centers, offering nationally known transplant specialists and innovative programs. 

  • Improving Anti-Rejection Protocols

    One of our top research priorities — unlocking the human immune system — is to achieve much higher rates of survival and better quality of life for children receiving transplants.

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Related Research

  • Striking a Delicate Balance

    In the mid-1990s, Dr. Ruth McDonald noticed that children awaiting a kidney transplant did not have the same chances as adults to receive one. She vowed to develop a national organ-allocation policy that would help even the odds.

  • Thinking Outside the Box

    Drs. Jorge Reyes and Simon Horslen share a vision: to make Children's intestine and liver transplant programs the best in the nation.

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  • Center for Immunity and Immunotherapies

    Our mission is to keep children healthy through the gift of immunity.

  • Center for Tissue and Cell Sciences

    Our mission is to restore children's health after injury through repair, regeneration or replacement of tissues, cells and organs.  

Related News and Press Releases

News

Seattle Children's performs milestone transplant
8.6.09 — King 5 TV

Thursday morning, surgeons at Seattle Children’s Hospital performed their 500th organ transplant.

CMV Prophylaxis in Pediatric Transplant Patients
4.16.09 — The Doctor's Channel

Dr. Jorge Reyes discusses the issues surrounding CMV prophylaxis in pediatric transplant

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Innovations in Pediatric Transplant Medicine
3.18.09 — The Doctor's Channel

Dr. Jorge Reyes the innovations of Children’s transplant program that aim to improve patient outcomes.

Press Releases

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Contact Us

Heart
206-987-2015
888-543-7478

Liver and intestine
206-987-1800

Kidney
206-987-2524

More contact information

Learn more about visiting Seattle Children’s Transplant Center:

Heart 

Intestine 

Kidney 

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Carson's Story

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Carson

Each year, hundreds of kids like Carson receive the region’s most advanced pediatric transplant care from Children’s Transplant team. Your support makes it possible.