NEW YORK, NY -- 12/26/07 --
The National Kidney Registry, a non-profit
organization dedicated to improving the lives of those facing kidney
failure, is pleased to announce the addition of Lloyd Ratner, M.D. to its
Medical Board. Dr. Ratner is Professor of Surgery at Columbia University
and is the Director of Renal and Pancreatic Transplantation at the
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center.
Dr. Ratner has been a leading innovator in living donor transplantation for
the past two decades. He performed the first laparoscopic nephrectomy in
the 1990s and set the stage for its widespread adoption by the transplant
community. Dr. Ratner also started the first paired kidney exchange program
at Johns Hopkins by working through all the legal, financial, ethical and
logistical barriers involved in the paired exchange process. His pioneering
work developing this innovative solution to overcome donor incompatibility
laid the foundation which the National Kidney Registry is building upon.
In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Ratner is also pursuing highly
regarded research on targeted intervention to increase living kidney
donation which is very relevant to the mission of the National Kidney
Registry.
"We are thrilled that Dr. Ratner has joined our medical board. His
significant experience and leadership in paired exchange and living
donation will accelerate the results of the National Kidney Registry," said
Garet Hil, Founder of the Registry.
"I am very enthusiastic to work with the National Kidney Registry. I
believe that working with the Registry will facilitate a significant number
of highly compatible living donor transplants that will lead to improved
patient outcomes," said Dr. Ratner.
About the National Kidney Registry
The National Kidney Registry is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization with a
mission to save and improve the lives of people facing kidney failure by
increasing the quality, speed, and number of living donor transplants in
the world.
About New York-Presbyterian Hospital
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is one of the most comprehensive university
hospitals in the world, with leading specialists in every field of
medicine. We are composed of two renowned medical centers,
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center and
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, and affiliated
with two Ivy League medical institutions, Columbia University College of
Physicians & Surgeons and Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital was voted the best hospital in the greater
New York area in New York Magazine's 2006 Best Hospitals survey. It was
also voted number one in pediatrics, psychiatry, cancer care, obstetrics
and gynecology, and neurology/neuroscience. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
is also ranked higher in more specialties than any other hospital in the
New York area by U.S.News & World Report(TM) and was tied for first place
in the nation for treatment of renal disease.
Contact:
Garet Hil
National Kidney Registry
800-936-1627
Email Contact
www.kidneyregistry.org
