For the second year in a row, the organ transplant program at UW Hospital and Clinics ranks first in the nation for numbers of kidney transplants and combination kidney-pancreas transplants performed.
According to figures compiled by the United Network of Organ Sharing, UW surgeons transplanted 346 kidneys in calendar year 2006 — 18 more than the University of Alabama-Birmingham, the second-place center — and 36 simultaneous kidney-pancreases.
The national rankings are just one of several milestones UW’s transplant program expects to hit this year. Within the next month, Dr. Hans Sollinger, chairman of the organ transplantation program, said the program will perform its 1,000th simultaneous kidney-pancreas transplant, a national record.