The liver transplant program at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago is a collaborative effort between the Division of Hepatology and the Division of Abdominal Transplant. The program provides comprehensive transplant services for both adults and children with end-stage liver disease.

Since its inception in 1985, Rush's liver transplant program has been one of the most active programs of its kind in the nation. We offer transplantation to patients with liver failure due to such common causes as autoimmune hepatitis, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, primary biliary cirrhosis, primary sclerosing cholangitis, liver cancer, alpha-one anti-trypsin deficiency, hemochromatosis, Budd-Chiari syndrome and many others. We also offer transplantation to patients considered too sick or too high risk by other centers. These patients may be older, they may have advanced malignancy or a thrombosed portal vein, or they may have received a previous transplant or had multiple previous surgeries. Our team of surgeons is very experienced in these complex cases, as well as in more routine cases. Finally, our team of transplant physicians offers living donor liver transplantation to patients with liver failure who are deteriorating rapidly or who have cancer.

For more information about the liver transplant program at Rush, or to find out if you are eligible for a liver transplant, contact us:

University Transplant
1725 West Harrison Street, Suite 161
Chicago, Illinois 60612
Phone: (312) 942-4252 Fax: (312) 942-3055

Our highly skilled transplant team is known for handling the most complex patient cases and is committed to caring for high-risk recipients.

• Forrest Dodson, MD, director of transplantation, liver transplant surgeon
• Edie Chan, MD, assistant professor of surgery, liver transplant surgeon
• Mariano S. Dy-Liacco, MD, assistant professor of surgery; liver, kidney, kidney/pancreas and pancreas transplant surgeon