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VCU Health performs nation’s first fully robotic living donor liver transplant
Mar 28, 2025

VCU Health performs nation’s first fully robotic living donor liver transplant

Richmond-based VCU Health Hume-Lee Transplant Center made history this month by becoming the first center in the United States to perform a fully robotic liver transplant using a liver from a living donor. VCU Health said the procedure, which was led by the interim surgical director of liver transplant Seung Duk Lee, used the da […]

Jun 29, 2022

UNOS CEO announces departure

Richmond-based UNOS, the United Network for Organ Sharing, will begin seeking a new chief executive at the end of September, the nonprofit announced Tuesday. CEO Brian Shepard will leave after nearly a decade with the UNOS, which administers the nation’s organ procurement and transplantation network. UNOS’s chief operating officer, Maureen McBride, will serve as interim […]

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