Chief of Transplantation Services at Baylor Regional Transplant Institute Installed as President of National Organization

Contact: Maria Carpenter, 214-820-4827
Email: mariaca@baylorhealth.edu

(DALLAS, TEXAS, May 14, 2007) – Göran Bo Gustaf Klintmalm, M.D., chairman and chief of Baylor Regional Transplant Institute and chief of transplantation services at Baylor University Medical Center and Baylor All Saints Medical Center, has been installed as the 34th president of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. In this position, he will actively guide the organization's involvement in transplantation research, education, training and advocacy.

"I am honored to help lead the American Society of Transplant Surgeons as we make advances in this rapidly growing field," said Dr. Klintmalm. "With the promises of immunotherapy, gene therapy and nanotechnology, transplantation is poised to make great strides in the next ten years." Dr. Klintmalm's installation as president occurred on May 8 at the American College of Transplant Surgeon's seventh annual joint transplant meeting.

The American Society of Transplant Surgeons' membership includes more than 1,050 transplant surgeons, physicians, scientists and allied health professionals from throughout the world. As the nation's oldest transplant organization, the society's mission is to lead the way in the 21st century in:

• Fostering and advancing the practice and science of transplantation for the benefit of patients and society
• Guiding those who make the policy decisions that influence the practice and science of transplantation
• Increasing organ donation
• Defining and promoting training and the career-long education of transplant surgeons, scientists and physicians
• Advancing the professional development and careers of transplant surgeons, scientists and physicians.

Dr. Klintmalm has been a leader in the field of transplantation for the past 20 years. He has served on more than 25 national medical committees and has participated in more than 200 research projects. In addition, Dr. Klintmalm has been appointed to 13 editorial boards and has been published in more than 300 peer reviewed papers.

Dr. Klintmalm has served as the director of Transplantation Services at Baylor Dallas since 1985. The hospital is one of only a few hospitals in the nation whose surgeons and physicians on the medical staff have performed more than 7,000 transplants, making Baylor one of the largest multi-specialty transplant centers in the country. According to the United Network of Organ Sharing, Baylor's transplant survival rates exceed the national standard. Baylor offers transplant programs for blood and marrow; heart and lung; kidney and pancreas; and liver.

Dr. Klintmalm is also the chairman and chief of the Baylor Regional Transplant Institute and director of the Dallas Liver Transplant Program.

About Baylor Dallas
Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas, a 997-bed not-for-profit academic hospital, is a major patient care and research center in the southwest. The nationally acclaimed medical center serves as flagship hospital for Baylor Health Care System and has earned Magnet status for "Excellence in Nursing Services" from the American Nurses Credentialing Center - the organization's highest level of recognition.

In addition to its level one trauma center, Baylor Dallas is also home to many nationally ranked centers of excellence including transplant, cardiovascular services, orthopaedics, oncology, digestive diseases, neurosciences and gynecology. In 2006, U.S. News & World Report recognized Baylor Dallas for the 14th consecutive year in its "America's Best Hospitals" guide.

About Baylor All Saints
The not-for-profit Baylor All Saints Medical Centers serve more than 100,000 people annually through two hospitals, numerous primary care physician centers and practices, a rehabilitation and fitness center, and a variety of medical specialties. Programs of excellence in cardiology, transplantation, neurosciences, oncology and women's services form the heart of the hospitals' services. All Saints joined Baylor Health Care System in January 2002. All Saints Health Foundation, a separately incorporated not-for-profit organization, raises and manages charitable funds to support Baylor All Saints Medical Centers. For fiscal year 2006, Baylor Health Care System reported $406 million in community benefit to the Texas Department of State Health Services.

Physicians are members of the medical staff at one of Baylor Health Care System's subsidiary, community or affiliated medical centers and are neither employees nor agents of those medical centers, Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas, Baylor All Saints Medical Center or Baylor Health Care System.