Connie Frank Transplant Center at UCSF

May 2024

We’ve been a patient of Dr Francis Yao for over a decade and thanks to UCSF my wife’s health has made an amazing transition from her genetic liver disease. The facility continues to provide great care and the newly designed and updated transplant site is beautiful with more light and a great view of the city.

Apr 2019

Upon spending months at a time with a dear friend with IPF, (Idiom Pulmonary Fibrosis), progressive irreversible scarring of the lung tissue that leads to the need of a lung transplant. She was on .oxygen 24 hrs daily at the time we met in April 2015, her health seemed good other than taking breaks as we would take walks and go to Peet’s for her favorite coffee. I am from the east coast (tourist) basically living local near her. I would leave for weeks or a couple of months at times and return to see a slight change in oxygen needs but her intake levels were dropping. Over the period between March 2018-August 2018 she was declining rabidly needing more than double the amount of oxygen within that timeframe alone. I had departed after being there from Nov 2016 thru her move to another town in Sept 2017 which I was absent only for 6 weeks until August 2018. In contact while I was in Arizona then on to Oklahoma as her health rapidly declined as she relayed to me. She had made it onto he transplant list prior to my departure but I never expected to hear on October 28 she messaged me that she would be admitted to USFC for preparation to on go a lung transplant at Connie Frank Transplant Center. I made my way there, she sent two photos along the way where she was up and visiting with her grandson and walking in the hallways. I arrived a couple of days later to find her in bed and not in the condition of the photos. The next day she was not able to do much but fade in and out of sleep with a tracheotomy installed taking her speech. Her condition was dire the last time I left saying “goodbye” The staff were “out of their way” helpful each and every time I visited. Talking with the Drs involved her condition worsened and I was certain this was my last visit. To my surprise and amazement she pulled out of the transplant and had been stable for a week now. Thanks to this Center my dear friend has the time to see her grandson and children grow. What better place to be when the situation is dire? Thanks Connie Frank Transplant Centers staff for enriching the lives of thousands of patients and families!