Our Transplant Services

At RWJBarnabas Health, our patients have access to nationally recognized organ transplant and procurement programs for adults and children. With focuses in heart, lung, kidney, and pancreas transplantation, the RWJBarnabas Health teams utilize transplant techniques offered at only a few of the world’s leading transplant centers. Each team is led by transplant physicians and transplant surgeons, who work closely with experienced, registered transplant coordinators, social workers and support staff. Our programs offer hope and the gift of life to many who may once have been considered ineligible for transplant. RWJBarnabas Health is a world-class leader in transplant research, clinical trials, anti-rejection medications and many other clinical advances that support patient care.

• RWJBarnabas Health is home to one of the nation’s top ten heart transplant programs, with locations in Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital New Brunswick.
• Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center is home to the fifth largest kidney transplant programs in the country with a strong focus on research. Transplanting both adults and children, Cooperman Barnabas is a national leader in creating complex kidney exchanges. With close to 400 transplant surgeries performed each year, it is the 8^th largest living donor kidney transplant program in the U.S.
• The Advanced Heart Failure Treatment Transplant Program at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center has performed more than 1,150 heart transplants, one of less than twenty centers in the country to reach this milestone.
• The Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Center at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick has an expert multi-disciplinary team, led by board-certified physicians from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, with extensive resources to support the region’s most critically ill patients who may not qualify for transplant at other centers. The center is home to the state’s largest pancreas transplant program, as well as a pediatric kidney transplant program at The Bristol-Myer’s Squibb Children’s Hospital.
• Newark Beth Israel Medical Center is home to New Jersey’s only Lung Transplant program, part of the hospital’s Advanced Lung Diseases and Transplant program.

Patient Stories

Kaitlin Siegel, kidney transplant recipient
“I just feel 1,000 times better. I’m getting back to my normal life, and it’s crazy how much better I feel. Even right after the surgery, I did not have much pain after. I just felt great very quickly.”

Naiya Atkins, heart transplant recipient
Naiya says she feels like a walking miracle and is blessed to be surrounded by all the doctors, nurses and medical staff at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center.

Nandan Savalia, heart transplant recipient
“My team of doctors did a great job. There is a reason that many in the hospital say that Dr. Ikegami has the hand of God.”

Brian Lydell, kidney recipient
“I tell him he’s Superman and he can do no wrong. It’s such a great gesture that it’s hard to put into words and say something that would do it justice."

Eileen Tumminelli, lung transplant recipient
“It is a gift of life. Everyone in my family is now signed up as an organ donor.”

Tony M, lung transplant recipient
“They gave me a second chance for life…and held my hand when it needed to be held."

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