1,300 attend OSU Transplant Reunion

COLUMBUS

More than 1,300 guests and volunteers recently gathered for the 11th annual Comprehensive Transplant Center Buckeye Pinwheel Planting and Transplant Reunion honoring former transplant patients, organ donors and living kidney and liver donors.

Held on the front plaza of Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, festivities began with a pinwheel dedication ceremony featuring a transplant recipient and organ donor family, followed by the planting of more than 9,700 red and silver pinwheels.

Each pinwheel represented an organ transplant performed at the Wexner Medical Center since its first organ transplant, a kidney, in 1967.

Ohio State’s Comprehensive Transplant Center, the region’s only adult transplant center and one of the top 15 transplant programs by volume in the United States, is celebrating 52 years of organ transplants.

Doctors have performed more than 9,700 lifesaving transplants, including heart, lung, kidney, liver and pancreas transplants. To register as an organ donor, visit: wexnermedical.osu.edu/Buckeye4Life.