Vanderbilt Transplant Center
The nation's largest transplant center.
Tennessee's only full-service transplant center. World-record heart volume, leading lung, liver, kidney, pancreas, and dual-organ programs.
Tennessee's only full-service transplant center
In 2025, Vanderbilt performed 960 solid organ transplants — the most ever completed by a single center in the United States. We offer adult and pediatric programs for heart, lung, liver, kidney, pancreas, and dual-organ transplants including heart-kidney, heart-liver, heart-lung, kidney-pancreas, and liver-kidney.
Common questions
Transplant referrals & evaluation
Physicians can refer patients online via the Vanderbilt referral portal or by calling (615) 343-4444. Our intake team coordinates records review, insurance verification, and multidisciplinary evaluation.
Vanderbilt performs heart-kidney, heart-liver, heart-lung, kidney-pancreas, and liver-kidney transplants in a single operation for complex patients in multi-organ failure.
In addition to our primary center in Nashville, Vanderbilt maintains heart and organ transplant clinic locations in Knoxville, Chattanooga, Madison, and Newburgh.