printable versionA celebration of transplants
Two-year-old Ava Davis and her mother Roxanne reunite with David Rosenthal (left), director of the pediatric heart failure program at Packard Children's Hospital, and Abdulaziz Alkhaldi (right), a fellow in pediatric cardiothoracic surgery, at the annual Heart, Heart-Lung and Lung Transplant Patient Reunion Party. The May 17 celebration included hundreds of adult and pediatric transplant recipients from Stanford and Packard Children's hospitals, along with those on the waiting list, families, friends and caregivers. Ava Davis will celebrate the first anniversary of her heart transplant on June 1. The party also included a salute to Stanford's Norman Shumway by Sharon Hunt, professor of cardiovascular medicine. Shumway, who died Feb. 10 at the age of 83, performed the first successful human heart transplant in the United States in 1968 at Stanford.