Research and education
Innovation, leading-edge technology and research
University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview and University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital are the core teaching hospitals of the University of Minnesota's Medical School. We were the nation’s first officially approved transplant fellow training program. More transplant surgeons have trained here than at any other center in the United States. As part of the nation’s leading academic medical center, research is part of our mission. This allows for leading-edge protocols, surgical techniques, technology, organ donation and recovery techniques and post-transplant care.
For example, we developed and pioneered laparoscopic surgery. This unique procedure greatly reduces the recovery time and pain for living donors of kidneys. Recovery time is often reduced to two or three weeks compared to up to eight weeks for open nephrectomy.
Our transplant surgeons, professors and trainees have held leadership positions in every major transplant-related professional organization. As one of the top and most respected teaching institutions in the nation, we balance responsiveness to patients’ needs and wishes, relationships with referring providers, and access to innovative treatments and technology to deliver superior health outcomes.
