BARRY A. WOLFMAN, CEO and Managing Director, The George Washington University Hospital (Washington, D.C.)
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“The D.C. area has one of the highest incidences of end-stage renal disease in the country. ESRD leads to the need for dialysis or a kidney transplant. GW Hospital recognized this urgent issue and in 2015 opened the GW Transplant Institute. We have expanded access to transplantation by using novel therapies, such as paired kidney exchanges and lowering antibody levels through desensitization. We have also made a concentrated effort to reach our community by visiting dialysis centers and establishing unique community-based partnerships. We partnered with the Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program to reduce the number of minorities needing transplants. In addition, we partnered with a local two-time kidney recipient to establish the Ron & Joy Paul Kidney Center at GW, which launches an education campaign this year to increase the number of living donors and bring awareness to kidney disease and treatment options.
Within one year, the GW Transplant Institute has performed more than three times the number of kidney transplants than we had expected to perform. We have already changed the lives of many living with kidney disease in the DC area, and we are positioned to do even more in the future.”
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