There are 9 article(s) tagged organ transplant:

• September 2026

  • Buckley: Bubba Luckett should soon get two new lungs. The support he’s received is a breath of fresh air.

    Financial assistance has been pouring in for longtime CBHS basketball coach Bubba Luckett as he awaits a likely double lung transplant.

    By Tim Buckley September 27, 2026

• August 2025

  • At 3, he was diagnosed with kidney disease. At 35, he’s telling his story over coffee.

    In a Memphis coffeeshop, Artavius Veasey encourage people of color, who make up about 60% of the 100,000 individuals on the national transplant waiting list, to consider organ donation.

    By Aisling Mäki August 21, 2025

• April 2025

  • Tennessee AG seeks to dissolve Memphis transplant charity

    When the National Foundation for Transplants announced its closure, many patients discovered they could no longer access funds they believed had been raised specifically for their medical needs. 

    By Aisling Mäki April 14, 2025

• February 2024

  • Organ donations, transplants grow in Tennessee and Mid-South

    In 2023, 47 of the nation’s 56 organ procurement organizations, including Tennessee’s, broke records in the recovery of organs for transplant. 

    By Aisling Mäki February 07, 2024

• May 2023

  • Methodist Transplant Institute is focusing on harder-to-place organs

    Methodist Transplant Institute conducted a record 328 organ transplants in 2022, and the institute continues to grow by expanding its donor service area and using harder-to-place organs.

    By Aisling Mäki May 13, 2023

  • Methodist Transplant Institute’s Jason Vanatta has found his calling

    Dr. Jason Vanatta of Methodist Transplant Institute was 13 when he found his calling in 1984, when a child made headlines after she received the world’s first heart-liver transplant at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.

    By Aisling Mäki May 13, 2023

• August 2022

  • George Lopez to speak at Methodist luncheon

    Past speakers have included former first lady Laura Bush, journalist Tom Brokaw, Queen Noor of Jordan, and Memphis native and actress Kathy Bates.

    By Aisling Mäki August 31, 2022

  • Transplant of patient’s ‘ticking time bomb’ uncertain after surgeon’s exit

    After a high-profile surgeon departed Methodist University Hospital’s Transplant Institute — and the live donor liver program is paused — a Memphis musician’s transplant is caught in the middle. 

    By Aisling Mäki August 28, 2022

  • Dr. James Eason no longer leading transplant institute at Methodist

    The esteemed transplant surgeon who made headlines for performing Steve Jobs’ liver transplant is no longer leading the transplant institute named for him. 

    By Aisling Mäki August 12, 2022