
Face and Hand Transplants Raise Ethical Questions for Living Donors
The health care system needs to be prepared to protect potential VCA donors by optimizing the informed consent process
Elisa Gordon is an Associate Professor at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine where she conducts federally funded research on organ transplantation and living donation. She serves as the Vice-Chair of the Ethics Committee of the United Network for Organ Sharing, on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Transplantation, and as Treasurer of the American Society of Bioethics and Humantities. She is also an OpEd Project Public Voices fellow.
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