The Matchmaker: Creating New Pathways for Kidney Transplantation
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Dr. Sandip Kapur, Chief of Transplant Surgery and Director of the Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Programs at NewYork-Presbyterian, tells the story of how Weill Cornell Medicine became one of the top kidney transplantation programs in the nation. With their creative, multidisciplinary approach, Dr. Kapur and the transplantation team are able to perform surgeries involving complex, high-risk cases that other centers can’t, so they can get more kidneys to the people who need them.
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