ISOrTT Registry Sponsors
Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute
The leading resource dedicated to helping people from around the world with end-stage organ failure, the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute was established in 1985 as the Pittsburgh Transplantation Institute. It was renamed in 1996 in honor of Thomas E. Starzl, MD, PhD, whose foresight, perseverance, and commitment made him the modern-day father of organ transplantation.
The mission of the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute is to foster a multidisciplinary approach to the continual improvement of the clinical, scientific, and social aspects of transplantation to improve the lives of patients with end-stage organ failure. The Starzl Transplantation Institute places a strong emphasis on the advancement of basic science and clinically applied research, and the teaching and training of multinational specialists.
The Starzl Transplantation Institute's transplant team has a tradition of caring for some of the most medically compromised patients. Nevertheless, the institute has maintained patient and graft survival rates that are significantly higher than the national average (this statistic comes from an analysis by the United Network for Organ Sharing).
from http://www.upmc.com/Services/TransplantationServices/StarzlInstitute/
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Hillman Center for Pediatric Transplantation
Renowned for its outstanding clinical services, research programs and medical education, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC has helped establish the standards of excellence in pediatric care. From Ambulatory Care to Transplantation and Cardiac Care, talented and committed pediatric experts care for infants, children and adolescents who make more than 500,000 visits to Children's and its many neighborhood locations each year.
Children's also has been named consistently to several elite lists of pediatric health care facilities, including ranking eighth among children's hospitals (FY 2006) in funding provided by the National Institutes of Health, and is named one of the top 10 best pediatric hospitals in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.