Transplant Services at University of Colorado Hospital

University of Colorado Hospital has one of the largest and most respected transplant programs in the nation.

Pioneers in Transplant

There have been many historic transplant stories at The University of Colorado Hospital and by the physicians and researchers of the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine. Among them:

  • First-ever liver transplant in the world. (1963)
  • First successful double lung transplant on a cystic fibrosis patient in Colorado .
  • Colorado ’s first solitary pancreas transplant to eliminate diabetes in a patient.
  • First in utero stem cell transplant to save a fetus with a rare blood disorder.
  • Opened a liver cell bank – one of the first in the country – to further research into new liver transplant procedures.
  • First living-related liver transplant in Colorado .
  • First living-related liver transplant on an adult with fulminant liver failure.
  • Region’s first liver transplant from a non-related donor.
  • One of the first in the nation to perform living-donor transplant surgery. 

Superior Outcomes

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Our patients’ outcomes in kidney, liver, heart, lung and other solid-organ transplants are among the best you can get.

University of Colorado Hospital lung transplant patients live longer than the national 5-year average.

United Network Organ Sharing (UNOS) data shows our Liver Transplant Program has one of the lowest one-year mortality rates in patient survival for centers performing 60+ liver transplants per year.

Transplant Specialties

Featured Doctors

Dr. Igal Kam, transplant surgeon, has been named in 5280 magazine as one of Denver 's Top Doctors for 11 years.

Dr. Han Myint is the director of the Blood & Marrow Transplant program.

Frederick L. Grover, MD is chair of the surgery department and has been the directing surgeon for the lung transplant program since its beginning in 1991. His work has helped make the UCH Lung Transplant Program one of the top in the nation.

Martin R. Zamora, MD has been the directing pulmonologist for the lung transplant program since its beginning in 1991 and is a United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) certified lung transplant doctor.

Michael J. Weyant, MD is extensively trained in the techniques of lung transplantation and end stage lung disease. He is very active in both treatment and research relating to lung transplantation.

Dennis M. Lyu, MD trained under Dr. Zamora, lung transplant program director, as a lung transplant pulmonologist and is active in research that supports the excellent care our lung transplant program.