The Miami Transplant Institute Offers the Miracle of Life

Miracles are made daily at the Miami Transplant Institute–an affiliation between Jackson Health System and UHealth—the University of Miami Health System.

As one of the world’s leading transplant centers, we provide children and adults with compassionate, skilled, and experienced care you can trust.

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America’s #1 Transplant Center, Two Years In A Row

First in second chances. Skilled transplant surgeons. Shorter waiting times. Access to the latest life-sustaining technology.

These are among the many reasons you and your family should choose the experienced team at the Miami Transplant Institute.

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About Our Transplant Programs

The Miami Transplant Institute offers life-saving transplant, support, and rehabilitation programs to children and adults facing organ failure—backed with the world-class resources of Jackson Health System and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

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Kidney Transplant

Saving more lives with our Living Donor Kidney Program and our Paired Kidney Exchange Program.
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Kidney-Pancreas and Pancreas Transplant

If complications from diabetes have led to kidney failure, these complex surgeries can save your life.
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Liver Transplant

Staying in the forefront of transplant medicine with new treatment options for patients of all ages.
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Intestinal Rehabilitation

Our multidisciplinary team saves lives by treating digestive tract disorders without transplants.
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Intestinal or Multivisceral Transplant

National leadership in treating disorders of the abdomen and intestinal tract.
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Heart Transplant or Ventricular Assist Device Program

Our team saves lives by implanting new organs and ventricular assist devices.
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Lung or Heart-Lung Transplant

Staying in the forefront of transplant medicine with new treatment options for patients of all ages.
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Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Program

Our team saves lives by providing temporary support to failing hearts and lungs.

See The Lives We’ve Changed

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Miami Transplant Institute’s 500th Intestinal Transplant Recipient is a Young Woman From Arkansas

During her junior year of high school in 1997, Stephanie Jira was thriving at being a healthy teenage girl. Like most kids her age, the Arkansas native was wrapped up in college applications and thinking about her future. Unexpectedly, though, Jira began to have trouble keeping food down after meals.

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The Miami Transplant Institute Performs its First Living Donor Robotic Procedure

A MTI multidisciplinary team performed its first successful living kidney donor transplant using the da Vinci Surgical System. Viviana Manzo donated her kidney to her longtime friend who suffered from End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD).

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Naples Twin Celebrating Her Third Transplant Anniversary after Rare Diagnosis of Alagille Syndrome

For first-time parents, JoAnna and Kris, having twin girls was a dream come true. But three months after delivering healthy twin girls, the new parents noticed that one of their daughters was developing differently than her sister.

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A Second, Multi-Organ Transplant during COVID Gives 5-year-old Chance at Life

After years of long and frequent hospital stays, not being able to eat, and digestive and intestinal issues that required two multi-organ transplants — 5-year-old Elijah Marrow is enjoying the freedom to run around freely and eat pizza.

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Orlando Toddler Leaves Hospital After Long Battle of Liver Disease

When Danilia “Amor” Aquino was born prematurely at 26 weeks in Orlando, she was showing early signs of liver disease. A few months later, she was diagnosed with biliary atresia, a rare, genetic, life-threatening liver disease that only appears in infants.

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Meet Our Skilled Multidisciplinary Team

Our renowned transplantation surgeons and physicians provide life-saving care for even the most complex medical problems.

Our multidisciplinary team has deep experience with a full range of organ transplants, including heart, lung, heart-lung, kidney, pancreas, kidney-pancreas, liver, intestinal, and multivisceral transplants, as well as intestinal rehabilitation, and life-saving support for failing hearts and lungs.
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Meet Our Skilled Multidisciplinary Team

Our renowned transplantation surgeons and physicians provide life-saving care for even the most complex medical problems.

Our multidisciplinary team has deep experience with a full range of organ transplants, including heart, lung, heart-lung, kidney, pancreas, kidney-pancreas, liver, intestinal, and multivisceral transplants, as well as intestinal rehabilitation, and life-saving support for failing hearts and lungs.
Meet Our Team