We are going to revamp the living donor liver program so that we focus on every patient coming to us to find an optimal graft," Baker said. "I really want to make sure that, upfront, as we meet these patients, we are really educating them about the potential for living donation. It is another area where she envisions the potential for incredible growth at U of U Health. It is a win for everyone involved, according to Baker.īaker's career as a transplant surgeon-most recently at the University of Chicago-has been focused on living donor liver transplantation. So, participants find and make a swap for a donor who can offer the best chance for surgical and immunological success. But the donor still wants to be involved in saving a life. "There are opportunities for not only finding a living donor but more importantly finding an optimal living donor through paired donation or swaps."īaker highlighted the university's involvement in several national programs that allow patients and their doctors to bring a donor forward who has an incompatible blood-type or antibody differences with the transplant patient. Growing and developing a strong living kidney donor program will be both challenging and exciting, according to Baker. "I would like to see that number change so that soon, we are doing the majority as living donors because living donation offers the best chance for optimal long-term outcomes for our patients," Baker said. Over two-thirds of those transplants used deceased donor organs while less than a third involved living donor organs. Last year, more than 200 kidney transplants were performed. The kidney transplant program at U of U Health has traditionally had excellent outcomes. After donating a kidney to a patient, the remaining organ will take on the work that both did before the surgery. "I want to completely flip the discussion and say upfront, 'let's talk living donation.' My belief is that everybody has a living donor, it is just a matter of helping them understand where they (the patient) can potentially find one," Baker said.Ī healthy adult does not need both kidneys they are born with to ensure waste is removed from their body and their metabolism is regulated. She is eager to change the focus toward options for living donation. "I think one of the big things that really drew me to University of Utah was the opportunity for growth in living donation, both in livers and kidneys," Baker said. "I believe this may be a reaction to a really deep look into who we are and what we care about as a society that came out of COVID."īaker joined the team at the U of U Health in October 2021 with some specific goals in mind for the transplantation program she will lead into the future. "In transplant, we talk about this a lot because the number of anonymous non-directed donors who are coming forward right now is unprecedented," said Talia Baker, MD, Chief of the Division of Transplantation and Advanced Hepatobiliary Surgery at University of Utah Health. While many people were dealing with death in their families and communities during the COVID pandemic, interest in giving the gift of life through living donor organ transplants was on the rise. New Roads invests heavily in the training of staff, including direct support staff, to ensure the ability to meet the unique treatment needs of clients with complex mental health diagnoses, enabling them to build a road towards a life worth living.This story is sponsored by University of Utah Health. These levels of care include: Residential, Transitional Living, Partial Hospitalization (PHP/day treatment), Intensive Outpatient (IOP), General Outpatient (GOP), and Psychiatric Outpatient. Our programs are results-driven, proven to provide better long-term success. New Roads Behavioral Health offers multiple levels of care, each focused on a specific population. Our evidence-based treatment models combine the latest in mental health treatment with a cultivated community atmosphere, allowing us to guide clients through the mental health recovery process with both efficiency and compassion. We help them build value-based lives, both as individuals and members of a community.
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