Seattle Children’s Transplant Center
Your Child and Family Are Our Sole Focus
The prospect of an organ transplant can be frightening and feel overwhelming. The transplant team at Seattle Children’s is dedicated to helping your entire family understand the transplant process, develop new skills to cope with your child’s illness and hospital stay, and deal with insurance and financial matters.
We will involve your child or teen in their care in ways that match their age and understanding. Additionally, our team works hard to improve your child’s quality of life after transplant. We are committed to helping your child and family return to an active life together doing the things you love most.
Meet Your Transplant Center Team
A successful transplant is a team effort. At Seattle Children's, the same team of dedicated experts will work with you to care for your child before, during and after transplant. Learn more about our Transplant Center team.
Andre A S Dick, MD, MPH
Senior Vice President and Surgeon-in-Chief; Surgical Director, Kidney Transplant
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Michael McMullan, MD
Division Chief, Congenital Cardiac Surgery; Surgical Director, Cardiac Transplant; Director, Mechanical Cardiac Support and ECLS Services
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Jodi M Smith, MD, MPH
Medical Director, Kidney Transplant; Associate Center Director and Medical Director of the Research Integration Hub
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Pamela Valentino, MD
Medical Director, Liver Transplant Program; Liver and Intestinal Failure Clinical Center Director
View ProfileOur Transplant Center Services
Heart Transplant Program
Our Heart Transplant Program has some of the highest post-transplant survival rates in the nation and has performed more than 270 transplants since our program was established in 1994. Seattle Children's is consistently ranked one of the nation’s best cardiology and cardiac surgery programs in the nation.
Learn more about Seattle Children's Heart Transplant Program.
Intestine Transplant Program
For children with irreversible intestinal failure, Seattle Children’s has the only program in the Pacific Northwest – and one of only a handful in the country – that has specialists who can perform intestine transplants. Our intestine transplant team performs transplants in children needing new intestines or both liver and intestines.
We are not accepting new patients at this time.
Kidney Transplant Program
Our Kidney Transplant Program has provided compassionate, state-of-the-art care to children who have kidney disease since 1984. Seattle Children's is one of the top five kidney transplant centers by volume in the United States, and has excellent clinical outcomes.
Learn more about Seattle Children's Kidney Transplant Program.
Liver Transplant Program
As the only pediatric liver transplant program in the Pacific Northwest, Seattle Children’s provides care before, during and after transplant. Our experts have been performing liver transplant surgery since 1990 and have some of the best outcomes in the nation, including a 100% one-year survival rate.
Learn more about Seattle Children's Liver Transplant Program.
Our Results Are Among the Best in the Nation
Success Stories
We celebrate the success of our transplant patients and the advances in care and research that increase the quality of life for our patients.
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Achieving Racial Equity in Transplants
“I tell patient families that it’s important to never lose hope,” says Dr. Evelyn Hsu, who leads Seattle Children’s Liver Transplant Program. “As a transplant physician, it gives you a great amount of optimism when you see a child doing so well after receiving a transplant. But we cannot stay complacent. We need to work harder in fighting for the children still in need and who deserve to live a full and healthy life.”
Transplant Center Research
Advancements in our research increase children’s access for transplants.
Our patients get better care before, during and after they receive a new organ as a result of research by our Seattle Children’s Transplant Center team. The same doctors who care for children needing organ transplants also do research to find better ways of treating them and will use innovative treatments to improve your child’s quality of life while they wait for a donor liver.
Research helps us improve how we care for patients. We could not do it without the families who take part in research studies.
Getting Care at the Transplant Center
Paying for Care
Learn about paying for care at Seattle Children’s, including insurance coverage, billing and financial assistance.