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National Kidney Registry Announces Lloyd Ratner, M.D. To Join Medical Board

Posted on: Wednesday, 26 December 2007, 12:00 CST

The National Kidney Registry, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of those facing kidney failure, is pleased to announce the addition of Lloyd Ratner, M.D. to its Medical Board. Dr. Ratner is Professor of Surgery at Columbia University and is the Director of Renal and Pancreatic Transplantation at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center.

Dr. Ratner has been a leading innovator in living donor transplantation for the past two decades. He performed the first laparoscopic nephrectomy in the 1990s and set the stage for its widespread adoption by the transplant community. Dr. Ratner also started the first paired kidney exchange program at Johns Hopkins by working through all the legal, financial, ethical and logistical barriers involved in the paired exchange process. His pioneering work developing this innovative solution to overcome donor incompatibility laid the foundation which the National Kidney Registry is building upon.

In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Ratner is also pursuing highly regarded research on targeted intervention to increase living kidney donation which is very relevant to the mission of the National Kidney Registry.

"We are thrilled that Dr. Ratner has joined our medical board. His significant experience and leadership in paired exchange and living donation will accelerate the results of the National Kidney Registry," said Garet Hil, Founder of the Registry.

"I am very enthusiastic to work with the National Kidney Registry. I believe that working with the Registry will facilitate a significant number of highly compatible living donor transplants that will lead to improved patient outcomes," said Dr. Ratner.

About the National Kidney Registry

The National Kidney Registry is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization with a mission to save and improve the lives of people facing kidney failure by increasing the quality, speed, and number of living donor transplants in the world.

About New York-Presbyterian Hospital

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is one of the most comprehensive university hospitals in the world, with leading specialists in every field of medicine. We are composed of two renowned medical centers, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, and affiliated with two Ivy League medical institutions, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and Weill Medical College of Cornell University.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital was voted the best hospital in the greater New York area in New York Magazine's 2006 Best Hospitals survey. It was also voted number one in pediatrics, psychiatry, cancer care, obstetrics and gynecology, and neurology/neuroscience. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is also ranked higher in more specialties than any other hospital in the New York area by U.S.News & World Report(TM) and was tied for first place in the nation for treatment of renal disease.

 Contact: Garet Hil National Kidney Registry 800-936-1627 Email Contactwww.kidneyregistry.org

SOURCE: National Kidney Registry

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