Durante varios años, Andrea Barcenas luchó por organizar su horario de trabajo en torno a las visitas médicas de su madre, Juana García, donde ella se desempeñaba como intérprete de su madre.

Barcenas es la unica hija de Garcia que aun vive en Illinois y trata de acompañar a su madre durante sus visitas medicas. Parte de su responsabilidad es ayudarle a traducir del ingles al español toda informacion importante que los médicos le brinden a su madre. En ocasiones cuando Barcenas no la puede acompañar, se queda con la esperanza de que Garcia entienda con precision lo que le dice el medico en ingles.

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...