UT Southwestern provides the highest-quality care and helps restore patients to full and productive lives. Our transplantation teams are there for patients, from initial evaluation through the life of the organ
Heart Transplant
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Ranked consistently as one of the nation’s top programs of its kind, UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Heart Transplant Program has performed more than 650 heart transplants since 1988.
As a leading transplant center in North Texas, we have the experience and expertise that lead to excellent patient outcomes. Our three-year survival rate surpasses the national average for heart transplantation.
UT Southwestern Medical Center is ranked as one of the nation’s best hospitals for treatment of cardiovascular disease, heart transplants, and other complex heart conditions, according to U.S. News & World Report for 2019–20.
UT Southwestern Medical Center Heart Transplant Program
Meet our Heart Transplant team, see our new state-of-the-art facility, and learn how our world-renowned surgeons and specialists provide comprehensive care for patients with advanced heart failure requiring transplantation.
Leading-Edge Solutions and Exceptional Outcomes
Our team’s specialized skills and training enable us to treat even the most complex cases of heart failure, including patients with other serious medical conditions and those in need of heart-lung or heart-kidney transplantation. UT Southwestern accepts many patients who have been turned away by other centers.
Because we deliver comprehensive, patient-focused transplant medical care, UT Southwestern’s multidisciplinary Heart Transplant team includes cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, cardiac nurses, transplant coordinators, and cardiac imaging specialists, as well as infectious diseases specialists, social workers, home health care providers, nutritionists, pharmacists, transplant and left ventricular assist device (LVAD) coordinators, and financial coordinators.
This team of specialists works together to provide ongoing medical management and facilitate the process for patients and families every step of the way. From support for patients awaiting heart transplantation or LVAD placement to comprehensive outpatient treatment of transplant recipients, including infection prevention, immunosuppression management, and long-term monitoring and care, our team is ready.
Additional support services include patient education, stress management, closely supervised cardiovascular rehabilitation, and support resources. All are designed to help patients stay out of the hospital, improve their well-being, and extend their lives.
Research is also critical to our programs. As an academic medical center, we participate in clinical trials and are involved in research that makes a difference in patient care.
Our center is a Medicare-Approved Heart Transplant Program from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Transplant
Mentorship Program
Transplantation can be an overwhelming and very emotional process. Having someone to talk to who has experienced every stage of the process can help. That’s the idea behind the Transplant Mentorship Program – a supportive community of people who have successfully been through, or are currently going through, the transplant journey. It is an opportunity to ask questions directly of someone who has been there and knows something of what you’re experiencing.
Interested in becoming a mentor?
- Do you have the time and energy to commit to your mentee (usually 30 minutes to 1 hour a week)?
- Do you reply to emails/phone calls in a timely manner (no more than 48 hours)?
- Are you in a good place mentally and emotionally, a place from which you can offer sound advice to another person?
- Are you a good listener?
Interested in being mentored?
- Are you looking for someone who has been through the transplant process and can answer your questions but understand that this person is not a medical professional or psychologist?
- Are you responsive and eager for help?
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Donating is Easy
Patients can sign up to be a transplant donor with Donate Life or through their local Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).
Award-Winning Care
We’re one of the world’s top academic medical centers, with a unique legacy of innovation in patient care and scientific discovery.

Refer a Patient
877-391-1528
Transplant Intake Coordinator: Allison Moore, RN, B.S.N.
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Clinical Heart and Vascular Center
at West Campus Building 3 2001 Inwood Road, 5th FloorDallas, Texas 75390 214-645-8000 Directions Parking Info
UT Southwestern Advanced Heart Failure Clinic - Waco
7125 New Sanger Road, Suite A Suite AWaco, Texas 76712 214-645-5505 Directions
UT Southwestern Advanced Heart Failure Clinic at Christus Trinity Mother Frances Tyler
619 S Fleishel Ave., Medical Arts Plaza, 1st FloorTyler, TX 75701 214-645-5505 Directions
UT Southwestern Advanced Heart Failure Clinic at UT Health Northeast Tyler
11937 US Hwy 271, 4th FloorTyler, Texas 75708 214-645-5505 Directions
UT Southwestern Medical Group at Texas Health Dallas Advanced Heart Failure Clinic
Professional Building 48440 Walnut Hill Lane, Suite 410
Dallas, Texas 75231 214-645-5505 Directions
UT Southwestern Medical Group at Texas Health Fort Worth Advanced Heart Failure Clinic
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital, Heart Center1301 Pennsylvania Ave., 1st Floor
Fort Worth, Texas 76104 817-250-4628 Directions
University Hospital Heart and Lung Clinic
at Professional Office Building 2 5939 Harry Hines Blvd., 6th Floor, Suite 600Dallas, Texas 75390 214-645-5505 Directions Parking Info