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Life-saving operations
Penn State Hershey Medical Center teams up with local family for its first-ever double live organ transplant
Upon meeting the Bradbury family, you immediately notice the love they have for each other. After hearing how they came together to save the life of one of their own, you can admire their courage.
A relatively close-knit family from the Hazelton area, they became a Penn State Hershey Medical Center first through a simultaneous, dual living donor organ transplant on a single person.
On March 15, 2011, 60-year old Timothy Bradbury received a kidney from his wife, Mary Ellen, and nearly half of the liver from his youngest son, James.
In the continental United States, the transplant of a liver and kidney from different living donors to a single recipient has been performed just 10 other times since 1987.
Penn State Hershey Medical Center is certified by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) for live donor liver transplantation. Dr. Zakiyah Kadry leads an interdisciplinary team of transplant surgeons, anesthesiologists, hepatologists, pre- and post-transplant coordinators, nurses, social workers, transplant pharmacists, and nutritionists who are all actively involved in transplant patients’ care.
2011 Commencement – Penn State College of Medicine
Our 41st annual commencement ceremony was held on Sunday, May 15, at Founders Hall, Milton Hershey School. Degrees were conferred on 151 medical students and 66 graduate students.
View some photos of the graduates during the ceremony and the celebration that followed.
THON Photo Slideshow
The 2011 proceeds from THON—the Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon—once again topped a previous record and raised a staggering $9.56 million to benefit The Four Diamonds Fund at Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital. The 46-hour event that ran from Friday evening through Sunday afternoon is the culmination of a yearlong fundraising effort by thousands of Penn State students at campuses across the state.
Some other THON numbers that are equally as impressive as the final tally:
- 708 students were selected as dancers.
- 11 bands provided entertainment to help sustain the dancers’ energy throughout the weekend.
- 240 families supported by The Four Diamonds Fund at Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital participated in THON weekend.
- 10,409 THON donation cans were distributed throughout the year.
Here is a sampling of photos from the weekend event that helps Children’s Hospital faculty and staff meet their daily mission of providing top-notch, comprehensive care to children and their families and finding tomorrow’s cures for pediatric cancers.
Slide show photos were contributed by faculty, staff, students, Penn State friends, and Four Diamonds families, including: Michael Verderame, Andrea Horne, Savannah Smith, Jackie Miller, Judy Hoch, Conrad Gast, Jeffrey Drexel, Celeste Negley, Cheryl Kretz, Lauren Lubus, Beth Garrigan, Matt, Steph, and Lindsay Smith, Shayne Beecher, Debbie Eslinger, Darik Kirschman, Tammy Cope, Rachel Pantalone, Sharon Otstott, Kim Keim, Cunningham, The Bush family, Steph Beyer, Connie Strayer, Chrissy Derr, Anne Morrow, Laura Trimble and Kathy Setlock.
Additional photos from throughout the weekend are available at http://live.psu.edu. For photos from Friday, visit http://live.psu.edu/stilllife/2431; from Saturday, visit http://live.psu.edu/stilllife/2433 and from Sunday visit http://live.psu.edu/stilllife/2434. Collected photos from throughout the weekend can be found at http://live.psu.edu/stilllife/2432.
