Surgeon who launched kidney transplant program in St. Louis hospitals dies at 78

Charles Anderson, MD, the surgeon who brought kidney transplants to St. Louis, died Nov. 7 at the age of 78, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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Dr. Anderson completed his undergraduate degree at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University and earned his medical degree from New Haven, Conn.-based Yale University.

In 1973, he created the kidney transplant program at what was then called Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. Ten years later, he formed a similar program at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.

“He always said that he never worked a day in his life because he loved what he did,” said Dr. Anderson’s daughter, Kristin Anderson Redington.

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