For decades, our pediatric liver transplant program has provided high quality services to infants, children, and adolescents with end-stage liver disease. 

• 1984 — Dr. Paul Colombani became Chief of Pediatric Transplantation at Hopkins
• 1986 — First adult liver transplant performed at Hopkins.
• 1987 — First pediatric liver transplant performed at Hopkins
• 1992 — First living-related liver transplant performed for pediatric patient
• 1990s — Hopkins is one of only two transplant centers to first use tacrolimus, new anti-rejection drug that produces reduced side-effects
• 1992 - 2010 — Johns Hopkins' strong commitment to survival outcomes is studied.
• 2007 - 2012 — The pediatric liver transplant program shows a 100% five-year survival rate for related living donor liver transplantation

Special features of our program include:

• We have the privilege of caring for patients in the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, consistently named as a top children’s center in the United States.
• We have performed more than 190 transplants, of which more than 50 transplants were living donor procedures.
• We have excellent patient and graft survival rates, comparable to those of any program which is willing to accept sick and complex patients.