Kidney transplant program

Innovative care for kidney transplantation

Providing the best transplant care means offering you innovative therapies and personalized treatment plans. Our extensive experience with robotic surgery, including our active participation in the trials that led to its approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), makes Advocate Health Care the premier choice for minimally invasive kidney transplantation surgeries. And, our paired kidney donor exchange program lets transplantation proceed where opposing blood types or other incompatibilities would otherwise prevent it.

What sets us apart:

• Top doctors: Multidisciplinary approach to care from experts in transplantation surgery, mechanical device implantation and a variety of medical specialties
• Excellent reputation: Top-ranked by Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients; participant in Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network and United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)
• State-of-the-art techniques: Minimally invasive robotic, laparoscopic and sutureless procedures mean shorter recovery times, less risk, and better outcomes for organ recipients and donors
• Comprehensive support: Expert care before, during and after your transplant surgery

A physician referral is required.

To refer a patient or to learn more, call 708-684-7100.

Why choose Advocate

Pioneers of micro-invasive kidney transplants

Advocate surgeons are nationally recognized for being the first to use a revolutionary procedure, called a micro-invasive living donor nephrectomy, that the American College of Surgeons has since adopted as a teaching tool. With it, surgeons can remove donor kidneys through an incision that's only 2.5 inches long. As a result, donor patients can go home the day after surgery, return to daily life quickly and experience less pain and scarring.

Multidisciplinary kidney transplant team

Our team of experts includes highly trained surgeons, transplant nephrologists, transplant nurse coordinators, pharmacists, dieticians, social workers, psychologists and many other specialties. Patients have 24/7 access to the transplant team, which provides one-to-one patient education. There is consistent communication by the transplant team with the patient, family, referring physicians, general nephrologists, dialysis centers and other providers. The team's focus is providing compassionate, personalized care and careful follow-up. Members of our multilingual staff are fluent in a number of languages, including Spanish, Hindi, Polish and French.

Call a nurse coordinator at 708-684-7100 to get answers to your questions, gather information or make an appointment.

Meet two of our top doctors

Dr. Darshika Chhabra, nephrology

Dr. Daniel O'Brien, general surgery

Experts in complex procedures

Our surgeons have the advanced training and experience to perform combined heart and kidney transplants; re-transplants; and bloodless transplants, as may be required by religious tradition (e.g., Jehovah's Witnesses).

Convenient, comprehensive care

Advocate is the only kidney transplant center in the south and southwest suburbs of Chicago. Plus, we have multiple convenient clinic locations for easy access to world-class care. You can receive top-ranked kidney care and avoid the traffic congestion in Chicago.

• Evaluation for a kidney transplant takes only two days of testing
• Recipients and donors have their choice of satellite clinic locations, for evaluations and follow-up care
• Free parking at all locations
• Free valet parking at Christ Medical Center
• Program approved for Medicare reimbursement by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Chicagoland locations

Transplant center:

Advocate Christ Medical Center
Physician Office Building
4400 W 95th Street, Suite 112
Oak Lawn, IL 60453

Satellite clinic locations:

(For recipient and donor evaluations and follow-up care)

Refer a patient or learn more

Contact our transplant coordinator to refer a patient or to learn more about our program

Call 708-684-7100