| News From Transplant Week of April 15, 2001 / Vol. 2 No. 15 |
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Head of Beth Israel Deaconess Liver Program Resigns |
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The head of the liver transplantation program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston has resigned a month after the hospital suspended the program following the deaths of 5 of its first 22 patients. Dr. Maureen Martin, who was brought to Beth Israel Deaconess to rebuild the program after the entire liver transplant team headed by Dr. Roger Jenkins left for the Lahey Clinic in 1999, is leaving just 14 months after she arrived. After the fifth patient died, the liver transplant program was suspended on March 17 pending an independent evaluation of the program. Martin, in a statement, said that while she considered the administrative work involved in the review of the program "necessary and wise," she wanted "to continue to focus primarily on caring for patients in need." "I think she really wants to focus on surgery and not so much on administration," said Dr. Michael Rosenblatt, president of Beth Israel. Other Sources: AP |
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