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Providing new hope and improved quality of life for children with life-threatening illnesses, the Siragusa Transplantation Center offers world-renown specialists and the latest technologies for comprehensive care in five pediatric programs for newborns to young adults. Patients are cared for by uniquely qualified teams with state-of-the-art resources for multisystem organ failure and other complicated conditions. A multidisciplinary approach to care before, during and after transplant gives patients and families a continuous care path and clear communications, which is vital when patients are ready for the next phase of therapy.

The center performs on average 50 solid organ and 75 stem cell transplants each year and includes:

• One of the world’s largest and most highly regarded pediatric liver transplant programs.
• The first pediatric heart transplant programs in Illinois.
• One of the first multidisciplinary pediatric intestinal rehabilitation and transplantation programs dedicated entirely to the care of children.
• The largest pediatric kidney transplant programs in Illinois
• One of the largest pediatric stem cell transplantation programs in the U.S. and one of the only to perform stem cell transplants on an outpatient basis.

Key to success is the center's skilled, experienced leadership and collaborative approach. The center is co-directed by pediatric medical and surgical specialists, both of whom have pioneered procedures now used around the world.

• Pediatric surgeon Riccardo Superina, MD, holds dual credentials in both pediatric surgery and transplantation surgery, making him one of few such experienced physicians in the country today.  He is an internationally recognized leader in pediatric surgery, dedicated to advancing surgery in pediatric transplantation, pediatric liver disorders, living-donor and reduced-size, split-liver transplantation, liver disease (biliary atresia), hepato-biliary surgery, and bowel transplantation.
• Pediatric hepatologist Peter Whitington, MD, played a leading role in developing the intricate surgical techniques that have made living-donor pediatric liver transplants possible.  He currently serves as the site Principal Investigator of the Biliary Atresia Research Consortium (BARC), a multi-year, multi-center study funded by the National Institutes for Health on the cause and treatment of biliary atresia. This research aims to improve future care of children with biliary atresia, currently the leading indicator for pediatric liver transplants in the United States.

To learn more, call 773.880.6363 or e-mail us today.