Adult Clinical Care

The Stanford Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplant Program offers advanced treatment strategies for patients with gastrointestinal dysfunction due to short bowel syndrome (or "short gut"). At Stanford Health Care, we provide personalized medical, nutrition and surgical therapies to improve intestinal function and meet the lifestyle needs of each patient.

A kidney transplant is a surgical procedure performed to replace a diseased kidney with a healthy kidney from another person. The kidney may come from a deceased organ donor or from a living donor. Family members or individuals who are unrelated but make a good match may be able to donate one of their kidneys. This type of transplant is called a living transplant. Individuals who donate a kidney can live healthy lives with the remaining kidney.

A person receiving a kidney transplant usually receives only one kidney, but, in rare situations, the patient may receive two kidneys from a deceased donor. In most cases, the diseased kidneys are left in place during kidney transplantation. The transplanted kidney is implanted in the lower abdomen on the front side of the body.

When patients require surgery to address pancreatic disease symptoms, Stanford surgeons carefully assess the individual's situation to determine which surgical approach will be the most effective and cause the least amount of discomfort and recovery time.

We have deep expertise in the entire spectrum of pancreatic surgery for benign and malignant disease within the Department of Surgery at Stanford University. Stanford is consistently among the top five medical centers in California in terms of the volume of pancreas operations performed annually.

Stanford began performing autologous islet transplants for patients in 2023. Our team of specialists includes chronic pancreatitis specialist Dr. William Park, HPB Surgeon Dr. Brendan Visser, and Interventional Radiologists Drs. Avnesh Thakor and Alex Vezeridis.