{"id":3221,"date":"2021-10-18T16:24:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T16:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medschool.prd.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/?p=3221"},"modified":"2021-10-22T20:32:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T20:32:30","slug":"vanderbilt-transplant-center-the-focus-of-national-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/vanderbilt-transplant-center-the-focus-of-national-tv-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanderbilt Transplant Center the focus of national TV series"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new documentary television series follows the life-saving stories of organ transplant patients at the Vanderbilt Transplant Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The series, \u201cLast Chance Transplant,\u201d is produced by Robin Roberts, anchor of ABC\u2019s \u201cGood Morning America.\u201d Roberts is a double stem-cell transplant patient passionate about the topic, and her production company, Rock\u2019n Robin Productions, is a partner in the series along with 44 Blue Productions.<\/p>\n

The series consists of three, one-hour episodes and premiered Sept. 22 on discovery+, the streaming platform of Discovery Inc., which is also home to a host of TV networks including Animal Planet, HGTV, and the Discovery Channel. Each episode of Last Chance Transplant features two patients.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are so proud to be part of this project to raise awareness of the importance of organ donation and the life-saving opportunity provided by each transplant,\u201d said Seth Karp, MD, chair of the Section of Surgical Sciences, H. William Scott Jr. Professor and director of the Vanderbilt Transplant Center.<\/p>\n

The project provides the opportunity to educate a national audience about how being an organ donor can impact the lives of others. Each episode includes a message from Roberts encouraging viewers to register to become organ donors.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy journey with MDS and my bone marrow transplant was one of the toughest fights of my life,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cThanks to my sister and bone marrow donor Sally-Ann as well as my doctors, nurses, family and friends, I was able to focus on the fight and not the fright. I am honored to share the stories of six courageous individuals as they await a life-saving transplant and the team of people who lift them up along the way. Their determination is truly inspiring.\u201d<\/p>\n

For months, film crews followed six very sick patients who were each waiting for a life-saving organ donor for a liver, kidney, heart or lungs, or in some cases, multiple organs. One of the featured patients received the world\u2019s first heart and double-lung transplant during the COVID-19 pandemic. Another transplant featured what is possibly the world\u2019s first heart and liver transplant in an adult Down syndrome patient.<\/p>\n

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A new documentary television series follows the life-saving stories of organ transplant patients at the Vanderbilt Transplant Center. The series, \u201cLast Chance Transplant,\u201d is produced by Robin Roberts, anchor of ABC\u2019s \u201cGood Morning America.\u201d Roberts is a double stem-cell transplant patient passionate about the topic, and her production company, Rock\u2019n Robin Productions, is a partner…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":222,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vm-around-the-medical-center","category-vm-fall-2021"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcDnub-PX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3349,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions\/3349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}