For several years, Andrea Barcenas struggled to organize her work schedule around attending medical appointments with her mother, Juana Garcia, and serving as Garcia’s interpreter.

During each appointment, Barcenas would relay in Spanish the important information doctors were providing to her mother in English. When Barcenas couldn’t make it to the appointment, she was left hoping Garcia accurately understood what the doctor was saying.

UI Health performed more kidney, kidney/pancreas and pancreas transplants in 2020 than any other major medical center in the Chicago metropolitan area. The hospital’s combined kidney/pancreas and pancreas transplant programs are the third-largest programs of their kind in the United States.

A kidney transplant is often denied to patients who are obese due to an increased risk of surgical complications, particularly infections. Surgeons at UI Heath — the clinical and academic health enterprise of the University of Illinois Chicago...

Surgeons at UI Health — the University of Illinois Chicago’s clinical and academic health enterprise — have performed the world’s first robotic-assisted double-kidney removal followed immediately by a living-donor kidney transplant in a patient with severe polycystic kidney disease...

Operating robotic scissors, University of Illinois Chicago Chancellor Michael Amiridis snipped a ribbon to officially open the University of Illinois College of Medicine Surgical Innovation & Training Laboratory, or SITL, on Sept. 15. ...

After many years on dialysis and on the transplant list to receive a donor kidney, Lana Schmidt had almost given up hope of surviving another year...