Becker's Healthcare January 9, 2026
Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine has built one of the country’s most ambitious transplant programs. Whether performing the first double lung-liver transplant in the U.S., eliminating all traces of colorectal cancer for a terminal patient through a liver transplant, providing an anesthesia-free kidney transplant or developing a lung transplantation method specifically for COVID-19 patients, innovation is infused into every aspect of care.
“If history looks back on Northwestern Medicine during this era of transplantation and says, ‘Wow, they did a lot of transplants,’ of course we’ll be happy. We saved a lot of lives,” Satish Nadig, MD, PhD, chief of organ transplantation, told Becker’s. “What would make us happier is if history looked back and said, ‘Northwestern changed the paradigm of...
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