Help us support these growing programs
Each day, patients’ lives are transformed by the Center for Thoracic Transplantation and the Center for Thoracic and Esophageal Disease at St. Joseph’s Hospital. These successful programs are the result of a dedicated and talented medical team, a supportive hospital staff, a group of committed and determined patients, and the donors whose gifts to St. Joseph’s Foundation made the centers possible.
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Dr. Ross Bremner explains how donors to St. Joseph’s Foundation have contributed to the lung programs at the hospital.
The Center for Thoracic Transplantation and the Center for Thoracic and Esophageal Disease care for patients with lung cancer, advanced COPD/emphysema, bronchiectasis, pulmonary fibrosis, Barrett’s esophagus, esophageal cancer, and other diseases.
Meet Ross Bremner, MD, PhD, Director of the Center for Thoracic Transplantation
Center for Thoracic Transplantation
Lung transplant surgery, a viable treatment option for patients with end-stage, high-risk lung diseases, is among the most complicated surgical procedures. Lung transplant patients must receive lifelong care after the lung transplant operation, including daily medications to prevent organ rejection.
As the Valley’s only lung transplant program, St. Joseph’s Center for Thoracic Transplantation has achieved very strong survival rates with the one-year survival rate well above the national average. A continued emphasis on quality assurance and quality improvement is central to the program, reflected in the post-transplant length-of-stay average of only 12 days.
Center for Thoracic and Esophageal Disease
This Center specializes in a multidisciplinary approach to evaluating, diagnosing and treating individuals with known or suspected diseases of the lung, chest or esophagus. Physicians seek early diagnosis and treatment of conditions of the lung and esophagus with treatment approaches that include minimally invasive and robotic procedures, video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) and maximally invasive surgical techniques.
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Dr. Ross Bremner discusses current research in the Center's labs.
Support these centers
St. Joseph’s Foundation is seeking to support patient care, medical education and research at the Center for Thoracic and Esophageal Disease and the Center for Thoracic Transplantation. For more information about the Centers or to make a donation, call the Foundation at 602-406-3041 or donate online.
