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All are invited to a special dinner taking place Wednesday, November 6th, 2013 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the world’s first successful lung transplant at Toronto General Hospital.
The evening will be hosted by Dr. Keshavjee, Director of The Toronto Lung Transplant Program and Surgeon General of The University Health Network. Dr. Keshavjee is the surgeon who performed my lung transplant over 11 years ago and I look forward to attending this celebration.
On November 7th, 1983 Dr. Joel Cooper performed the world’s first successful lung transplant.
Dr. Joel Cooper is now Chief of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. At the time of the first successful lung transplant Dr. Cooper was head of thoracic surgery at University of Toronto.
I had the pleasure of meeting and chatting with Dr. Joel Cooper and he was kind enough to tell me the story of the first successful lung transplant. Until that time only 44 lung transplants had been attempted worldwide and none of the patients lived more than a few weeks. Dr. Cooper had been experimenting with a new drug for treating organ rejection, cyclosporine, and results on tests with dogs were promising. The patient, Tom Hall, 58, was dying from pulmonary fibrosis and had little time left to live. He agreed to be patient number 45 and the rest is history. Previously, the only drug available to doctors was prednisone, but what they didn’t know was that although it was a powerful anti-rejection drug it was also a powerful anti-inflamatory drug and prevented the airway connections from healing after transplant. But cyclosporine worked and still works today (I take it twice daily myself).
