The Kovler Organ Transplantation Center at Northwestern Memorial Hospital offers comprehensive, compassionate care throughout the transplant process. Our transplantation programs include:

•  Kidney Transplantation 
• Pancreas / Islet Cell Transplantation 
• Liver Transplantation 
• Intestine Rehabilitation & Transplantation 
• Living Donor Organ Transplantation
• Hispanic Transplant Program
• Programa de Trasplantes para Hispanos - En español
• Heart Transplantation

In the News

View the recent medical stories featuring our transplantation program.

• Heart Transplant Coordinator Sees Organ Donation Through a Patient's Eyes (Press Release)

• Northwestern Memorial Hospital Ranks as a National Leader in Living Donor Kidney and Living Donor Liver Transplants (Press Release)

• New Transplant Method May Allow Kidney Recipients to Live Life Free of Anti-Rejection Medications (Press Release)

• MSBL Player Donates Kidney to Fellow Member (pdf)
  (HardBall Magazine, Final Issue 2011)

• Just a Liver Transplant Among Neighbors (Chicago Tribune, April 14, 2011)

• A New Push to Let H.I.V. Patients Accept Organs That Are Infected (New York Times, April 11, 2011)

• Woman Gets New Liver From Church Parishioner (WBBM-AM, March 1, 2011)

• Fellow churchgoer becomes Chicago woman’s liver donor (Rockford Register Star, March 1, 2011)

• Altruistic Donors Boost Hopes for Those Waiting for Kidney Transplant (Daily Herald February 3, 2011)

• Patient, Organs Weather Storm (Chicago Tribune, February 2011)

• As U.S. Patients Await Organ Transplants, Potential Donors Struggle for Visas (New York Times, January 2011)

• Three Patients get New Kidneys Thanks to Donor's Generosity (ABC-7, January 5, 2011)

• Chain of Kidney Donations Saves Berwyn Man's Life (Brookfield Suburban Life, January 5, 2011)

• Plainfield Man Says Joy of Donating Kidney Second Only to Seeing His Kids Born (Plainfield Patch, December 10, 2010)

• Transplant Clinic Caters to Hispanics (Chicago Tribune, December 6, 2010)

•  Kidney Swap Creates Special Bond (ABC-7, November 20, 2010

•  Man Gives Life-Saving Gift To Wife (CBS-Evening News, October 3, 2010)

• Strangers Share the Gift of Life: Eight patients meet for first time following a four-way paired kidney exchange (September 22, 2010)

• Northwestern Memorial Opens Transplant Clinic in Joliet (July 2010)

• Sixteen Patients, Eight Kidney Transplants, Three Days, One Life Changing Event (Press Release)

• Cashier receiving customer's kidney today (Chicago Tribune, March 26, 2010)

• Kidney paired donations may expand under pilot program (American Medical News, March 23, 2010)