Clinical Program

Lung Transplant Program

About the 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:

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.


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