| News From Transplant Week of Oct. 6, 2002 / Vol. 3 No. 40 |
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Black Female Surgeon Takes Over South Alabama Transplant Program |
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Dr. Velma Scantlebury, who more than a decade ago became the first female African-American transplant surgeon, has left the University of Pittsburgh to become director of the transplant program at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine. Scantlebury performed more than 200 living donor kidney transplants and more than 500 cadaveric kidney transplants during her 16 years at the University of Pittsburgh. She is taking over a relatively new transplant program that has performed only some 70 kidney transplants, but where roughly half of the patients awaiting transplants are African Americans. "It's a terrible loss for us," said Dr. Ron Shapiro, director of the University of Pittsburgh kidney transplant program. "But on the other hand, from her point of view, this is a fabulous opportunity. This is a move that was inevitable for someone of her ability." Other
sources: University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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