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Kidney Transplant

Leaders in kidney disease treatment

If your child needs a kidney transplant, our track record is sure to make you feel more secure about a transplant at University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital. Nearly 1,000 children, more than in any other hospital, have received a kidney transplant at our hospital—one of the highest number of pediatric kidney transplants in the world. In the 1970s, the University of Minnesota Amplatz Children's Hospital became the first in the nation to develop successful strategies for long-term hemodialysis and kidney transplant in children. Our experience allows us to take on the most complex cases.

What makes us different?
The pediatric Kidney Transplant Program at University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital is one of the most successful in the world.

  • Our pediatric nephrologists, urologists and surgeons have more than 30 years of experience. Your child is in excellent hands because:
          o We have some of the highest reported infant kidney transplant success rates in the world.
          o Our surgeons have performed more than 170 kidney transplants in children under age 2.
          o After transplant, babies in our program improve quickly in growth, height, and weight and brain development.
  • Because our living donor kidney program is one of the largest in the country, your child’s chances of receiving a kidney sooner are good.
  • In 2010, U.S. News and World Report ranked our kidney care program for children among the top 10 in the country.

Treating children worldwide

More than one-third of our kidney transplant patients come to University of Minnesota Amplatz Children's Hospital from distant areas in the United States, as well as other countries. Our doctors understand your concerns and will be ready to continue working with you and your referring doctors when you return home--no matter where you live. 

Pediatric Kidney Transplant Program fact sheet. (PDF)

Pediatric Heart Transplant Medicine

Rebecca Ameduri, MD
Elizabeth Braunlin, MD, PhD

Pediatric Heart Transplant Surgery

Roosevelt Bryant III, MD
James St. Louis, MD

Pediatric Intestinal Transplant Medicine

Nissa Erickson, MD
Deborah Goldman, MD
Sarah Jane Schwarzenberg, MD

Pediatric Intestinal Transplant Surgery

Srinath Chinnakotla, MD
William Payne, MD
Timothy Pruett, MD

Pediatric Islet Transplant Medicine

Melena Bellin, MD
Sarah Jane Schwarzenberg, MD
Boris Sudel, MD

Pediatric Islet Transplant Surgery

Gregory Beilman, MD
Srinath Chinnakotla, MD
Ty Dunn, MD, MS, FACS
Timothy Pruett, MD

Pediatric Kidney Transplant Medicine

Blanche Chavers, MD
Clifford Kashtan, MD
Avi Katz, MD
Michael Mauer, MD
Lydia Najera, MD
Thomas Nevins, MD
Michelle Rheault, MD
Priya Verghese, MD, MPH

Pediatric Kidney Transplant Surgery

Srinath Chinnakotla, MD
Ty Dunn, MD, MS, FACS
Erik Finger, MD, PhD
Raja Kandaswamy, MD
William Payne, MD
Timothy Pruett, MD

Pediatric Liver Transplant Medicine

Nissa Erickson, MD
Deborah Goldman, MD
Sarah Jane Schwarzenberg, MD
Boris Sudel, MD

Pediatric Liver Transplant Surgery

Srinath Chinnakotla, MD
Raja Kandaswamy, MD
William Payne, MD
Timothy Pruett, MD

Pediatric Pancreas Transplant Medicine

Melena Bellin, MD
Marie Cook, RN, CNP, MPH, CCTC
Sarah Jane Schwarzenberg, MD

Pediatric Pancreas Transplant Surgery

Gregory Beilman, MD
Srinath Chinnakotla, MD
Ty Dunn, MD, MS, FACS
Timothy Pruett, MD

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