Important milestones in our care include:
- Performing the world's first deceased donor pancreas transplant (1966)
- Founded the first nationally accredited transplant fellowship training program (1970)
- Performing the world's first living donor pancreas transplant (1979)
- Performing the world's first total pancreatectomy with islet cell autotransplant (1977)
- Performing Minnesota's first adult heart (1978) and infant (1986) heart transplants
- Established the world's first non-directed living kidney donor program (1999)
- Established the first living kidney donor outcomes database in the United States
- Performing the Midwest's first 'breathing lung' transplant (2013)
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