Methodist Transplant Center (The Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas)

Methodist Transplant Center

The Methodist Transplant Center is dedicated to providing our patients with the best service possible, through excellent patient care, research and education. Our physicians and staff are prepared to meet all your needs, from transplant evaluation to long-term follow-up care after transplant. State-of-the-art facilities and technology will ensure you receive leading edge care at Methodist.

For more information about the Methodist Transplant Center or to schedule an appointment, please call 713.441.5451 or toll free at 888.393.3986.

Methodist Transplant Center
6550 Fannin Street, Smith Tower, Suite 1201
Houston, TX 77030
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News from the Methodist Transplant Center

The Helping Hearts will be having their annual fund-raiser golf tournament on August 30, 2008

The Helping Hearts will be having their annual fund-raiser golf tournament on August, 30, 2008 at the Wildcat Golf Club. The Helping Hearts is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing help to people before, during, and after a heart transplant. The Helping Hearts meet the second Tuesday of each month beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the Blanco Room at The Methodist Hospital and the Heart/Lung/LVAD Support Group meets every Thursday at 4 p.m. in D463 (Dunn Bldg. 4th floor classroom).

For more information, please contact The Helping Hearts president, Judy Williams at 281.476.1009 or via cell phone at 713.818.6184. The Wildcat Golf Club is located at 12000 Almeda Road, Houston, Texas 77045, 713.413.3400.

Methodist opens new patient resource center with the generous support of the JLH Foundation

Methodist Transplant Center honored the JLH Foundation for their generous support of its patients and their families by naming its new patient resource center in honor of John. L Hern. Mr. Hearn established the JLH Foundation to help transplant patients. The resource center will provide knowledge and a shared community of support for transplant patients and their families. Read more...

Dr. A. Osama Gaber, Director of the Methodist Transplant Center appointed presiding officer of state kidney disease task force

Dr. A. Osama Gaber, director of transplantation at The Methodist Hospital, was appointed by Governor Rick Perry as presiding officer of Texas’ new Chronic Kidney Disease Task Force.

The task force was organized when legislation passed by the Texas House of Representatives required the state to develop a cost effective plan to prevent and screen for chronic kidney disease. Gaber is one of several physicians, scientists, state legislators and representatives from numerous other industries who will make up the team. The group’s first meeting was Monday, May 12. Read more...

Former Congressman Charlie Wilson was discharged from Methodist after undergoing a lifesaving heart transplant

Wilson, 74, received a donor heart Sept. 24, 2007 after spending nearly two months on the transplant list. The former congressman, from Lufkin, served his district from 1973-1997. As a powerful member of the Defense Appropriations Committee, Wilson helped funnel billions of dollars in U.S. aid to Afghan fighters during the Soviet-Afghan war, which ultimately led to the fall of the Soviet Union. His exploits were chronicled in the best-selling book Charlie Wilson’s War, and in a movie starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts. Read more...

Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Polish president Lech Walesa undergoes tests for heart failure

Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Polish president Lech Walesa is at the Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center in Houston this week undergoing tests for heart failure.

“We're doing everything we can to make sure Mr. Walesa doesn't need a transplant right away. We have high hopes that we will be able to restore function in his heart by other means, thereby relieving him of symptoms like chest pain, fatigue and shortness of breath. Our goal, of course, is to prevent or postpone the need for transplant, and we have many tools at our disposal," said Dr. Guillermo Torre, heart failure specialist at the Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center and section chief of cardiac transplantation at Methodist."