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Aaron Williams

Aaron Williams

Assistant Professor of Cardiac Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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"These outcomes are at least as good, if not better, than the outcomes of current modalities which have significant limitations including costs and ethical concerns." — Aaron Williams, announcing the JAMA study results

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New heart preservation methods expand who can donate and how far organs can travel

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Named to TIME100 Health list of influential leaders in 2026

For decades, donated hearts had to reach recipients within four hours, and only brain-dead donors qualified. Vanderbilt researchers' REUP technique—a flush of oxygenated blood, del Nido cardioplegia solution, and cardioprotective additives—can preserve hearts from donors after circulatory death for eight hours, with outcomes matching or exceeding existing methods, all at $2,000 per transplant instead of $65,000.

Updated May 31