A Hero With Wings

As we celebrate Donate Life Month, we shine a light on Jessica Turnbough, who was inspired by an organ donation that saved her childhood friend’s life.

First triple-organ transplant of its kind in the state paves the way for lifesaving multiorgan procedures

March 23, 2021

If surgery were gymnastics, a triple-organ transplant would be a feat worthy of the Olympics. It has everything: Complex and intricate procedure? Check.…

UF Health surgeons perform historic double-lung transplant on COVID-19 survivor

July 30, 2020

A man who battled back from COVID-19 only to face a life-threatening crisis when his lungs began to fail has become the first person in the Southeast to…

Eternally intertwined: Husband, widow donate organs to same man 16 years apart

June 18, 2020

In order for there to be a gift of life, there must be a giver. Living donors are more common for some types of transplant procedures, especially kidney…

A perfect match

If the best gift of all is life, then the second-best must be love. Jessica Scoggins and Daniel Sullivan, both transplant recipients, met through their…

The Gift That Keeps On Giving

Valentine’s Day is a time for loving, sharing and caring. We know what this means in the romantic sense, but what if there were a more meaningful way to…

First patient receives kidney through Sacred Heart Health System and UF Health collaboration

March 15, 2017

A University of Florida Health transplant surgeon has performed Northwest Florida’s first kidney transplant as part of a collaboration between the…

UF College of Medicine names chief of the division of transplantation surgery

July 26, 2016

Kenneth Andreoni, M.D., has been named the new chief of the division of transplantation surgery at the University of Florida College of Medicine. He oversees…