Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Transplant
Guest post by Sara Geatrakas, RN
As a post-kidney/pancreas-transplant coordinator I have been charged with helping patients thrive after transplant surgery. Healthcare providers can provide all the best medical advice, make all the proper medication adjustments and order all the newest and fanciest tests, but staying strong and healthy after a kidney transplant requires a dedicated and hard-working team, which doesn’t stop at Mount Sinai’s Recanati/Miller Transplant Institute (RMTI). Patients and their families are the most important, vibrant and vital part of this process. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Transplant
Guest post by Cathy Bavaro, living kidney donor.
It was just about a year ago now when I heard my brother Joey say the words, “My doctor is putting me on the Kidney Transplant List.” It was on of the scariest things I had ever heard. What was even scarier to me was the possibility that I may not be a match to give my brother a kidney. All I knew in my heart was if I was lucky enough to be a match, I would be giving my brother my kidney so that this nightmare could be over. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Transplant
Guest post by Sharyn Kreitzer, MSW, Director of Outreach for the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute and Greta Deerson, LMSW, Kidney Transplant Social Worker.
Organ donation recipients are encouraged, through their transplant centers, to contact donor families (even though they do so anonymously) to say thank you. The Donor Family Services team from LiveOnNY acts as an intermediary to determine when both the donor and the recipient are ready to reveal identifying information and they often assist in coordinating a meeting when both donor and recipient are ready. (more…)
Mar 31, 2015 | Inside, Your Health
Patients waiting for a kidney transplant at the Mount Sinai Health System have a supportive new program to help them: the Kidney Coach program at the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute’s (RMTI) Zweig Family Center for Living Donation. The program recruits friends and family members to become coaches who spread the word about their loved one’s dire need for a living donor to improve the chances of finding one. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, School
After completing his residency training at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai more than two decades ago, renowned surgeon Ron Shapiro, MD, has returned to the Mount Sinai Health System as Surgical Director of the Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program at the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute (RMTI). (more…)
As a post-kidney/pancreas-transplant coordinator I have been charged with helping patients thrive after transplant surgery. Healthcare providers can provide all the best medical advice, make all the proper medication adjustments and order all the newest and fanciest tests, but staying strong and healthy after a kidney transplant requires a dedicated and hard-working team, which doesn’t stop at Mount Sinai’s Recanati/Miller Transplant Institute (RMTI). Patients and their families are the most important, vibrant and vital part of this process. (more…)
