Talking Transplant

Having an organ transplant is a big thing for someone to go through and for most people there is a lot of fear and uncertainty in the lead up. One factor we haven’t spoken about yet is how do you tackle that uncertainty and illness while being a parent. How much do you tell your child? What’s the best way to explain to them you are about to receive a transplant? 

To help us navigate this we speak to Dr Donovan Moncur. Donovan is a...

From private planes to facilitate retrieval, to special machines keeping the organ alive, to finding out if having a bank of organs ready to go is somewhere we will be in our lifetime – in this episode we cover it all.

We dive into the technology that makes organ retrieval and transplant possible. Joining us is Dr John Whitlam, the Clinical Team for Kidney Transplant at Austin Health and Dr Graham Starkey, one of our talented Live...

Have you ever had to wait for something? Have you had to wait for months and months and in some cases years? For those who are on the transplant waiting list, this is their everyday. The question though is how do you wait for something that may not come?

In this episode we hear first hand from double liver transplant patient Peter Quinn on how he waited five months for his first liver after being given only between six weeks and s...

When Linda and her family woke up one day last year, the last thing they imagined they would be doing is saying goodbye to their son Glenn and making the decision to donate his organs but that’s exactly what happened. Despite Glenn no longer being here, he was able to transform the lives of at least three people.

In the first episode of Talking Transplant, we are joined by Linda and Associate Professor Helen Opdam, one of our Inte...