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Penn Medicine has opened a Center for Living Donation

In the Media January 1, 2023
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Chelsea Jovanovich (left) received a uterus transplant from donor Cheryl Cichonski-Urban (right) as part of a clinical trial at Penn Medicine. The two became friends after getting to know one another after the February 2020 procedure.Read more Penn Medicine

Penn Medicine has opened a Center for Living Donation, bringing under one roof its services for patients who receive kidney, liver, and uterus transplants with organs donated by living people. Therese Bittermann, MD, MSCE the medical director of Penn’s living donor program for liver transplant comments on this new center.

Penn Medicine’s Center for Living Donation is poised to make major strides in the field of transplantation