Lung Transplant Program

Our program is a multidisciplinary effort between the medical and surgical programs. Our program is currently led by Gary Visner, DO, who directs the medical team, and Francis Fynn-Thompson, MD, who directs the surgical team.

The program is staffed by a team of specialists that includes:

• transplant surgeons
• transplant physicians
• lung transplant nurse coordinator
• physical therapist
• nutritionist
• social worker
• anesthesiologists
• intensive care physicians
• infectious disease physicians
• cardiologists
• otolaryngologists (ear, nose, and throat physicians)
• psychiatrist/psychologist
• financial coordinator

We offer expertise in transplanting children with a variety of disease processes, including:

• chronic lung disease
• cystic fibrosis (with and without multi-resistant organisms)
• pulmonary fibrosis
• pulmonary hypertension
• pulmonary vein stenosis
• interstitial lung disease and other end-stage lung diseases

Our team also cares for children in need of re-transplantation, as well as those on ventilator support due to severe respiratory failure. Our program collaborates with the adult lung transplant program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, also in Boston.