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Rodney Cochran received a heart transplant at the WashU Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Transplant Center in 2024. In 2025, Rodney won a bronze medal in cycling at the World Transplant Games.


Trust Your Future with Organ Transplant Experts

Second chances start with WashU Medicine expertise

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A transplant isn't just a procedure. It's more time. More memories. More life. At the WashU Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Transplant Center, our world-class organ transplant team is committed to giving people more.

Excellence in transplant care, centered on you

  • The most experienced surgeons in the region: WashU Medicine physicians have performed more than 14,000 transplants, making us one of the largest programs in the nation. In Missouri, 7 out of 10 transplant patients choose us for their care.
  • Exceptional outcomes: Our care is focused on helping you achieve the best results possible, so you can feel—and live—better.
  • Care for even the most complex cases of organ failure: Our specialists provide advanced surgical and medical care for kidney, heart, lung, liver, and pancreas failure, offering hope to patients who may not have options elsewhere.
  • Dedicated support from transplant coordinators: From evaluation and surgery to long-term follow-up, you’ll have a coordinator by your side. They'll guide you, answer your questions, and connect you with the multidisciplinary team committed to your health and well-being.
  • Innovation focused on you: WashU Medicine physicians are leaders in using advanced technology, innovative surgical techniques, and specialized treatments to help patients receive lifesaving transplants.

Conditions we treat

We evaluate patients for heart, lung, liver, kidney, and pancreas transplants. Patients who need transplants often have advanced organ failure and complex conditions including:

  • End-stage kidney disease
  • Advanced heart failure
  • Chronic lung disease
  • Liver failure and cirrhosis
  • Pancreatic disorders requiring transplant

Nationally ranked specialty care

Barnes-Jewish Hospital and WashU Medicine physicians offer a level of expertise that distinguishes them nationally. The hospital is ranked in Cardiology, Heart & Vascular Surgery, and Pulmonology & Lung Surgery by U.S. News & World Report.


Our team

The WashU Medicine and Barnes-Jewish transplant team delivers the region’s most advanced transplant care—where leading research, specialized expertise, and personalized treatment come together. From evaluation through long-term follow-up, the transplant team is focused on your health, recovery, and quality of life.

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Learn how we’re moving medicine forward

 
Erica Beger and her father, Perry Beger, after her donation surgery and his kidney transplant

Donating a Kidney, Saving a Life

When a daughter donated one of her kidneys to her father, she gave him more than an organ

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Jeffrey Crippin, MD, gastroenterologist and hepatologist, discusses treatment options with a patient.

The Liver: A Powerhouse that Regenerates

Understanding the liver’s vital functions, why it can regenerate, and how that makes living-donor transplants possible

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Members of the early lung-transplant team at Barnes-Jewish Hospital included (from left to right): Washington University Physicians Elbert Trulock, MD; Joel Cooper, MD; John Frattini, MD; and Neil Ettinger, MD.

Lung Transplant: The Path to 2,000 Surgeries

The history—and science—behind one of the country’s most experienced lung transplant programs

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