{"id":6501,"date":"2023-04-04T06:51:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T13:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=6501"},"modified":"2023-04-04T06:52:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T13:52:04","slug":"from-patient-to-doctor-how-a-transplant-recipient-became-a-transplant-physician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/04\/04\/from-patient-to-doctor-how-a-transplant-recipient-became-a-transplant-physician\/","title":{"rendered":"From Patient to Doctor: How a Transplant Recipient Became a Transplant Physician"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"6501\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><strong>Sara Kathryn Smith \u2014 the medical director of pediatric liver transplantation at Johns Hopkins Children\u2019s Center, brings a unique insight and perspective to the job, as a transplant recipient herself<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Newswise \u2014 At age 17, Sara Kathryn Smith began an unexpected, personal health journey \u2014 a journey that would alter the course of her life and career and, ultimately, provide her a unique set of experiences to help others as a medical professional. Today, Smith serves as the medical director for pediatric liver transplantation at Johns Hopkins Children\u2019s Center. But years ago, she was a liver transplant patient herself.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her liver troubles began one evening during her junior year of high school \u2014 Smith had a pain in her stomach and threw up blood the following morning.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswise.com\/articles\/from-patient-to-doctor-how-a-transplant-recipient-became-a-transplant-physician\">Read the full story<\/a> from Johns Hopkins Medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h6>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"6501\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading Sara Kathryn Smith \u2014 the medical director of pediatric liver transplantation at Johns Hopkins Children\u2019s Center, brings a unique insight and perspective to the job, as a transplant recipient &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/04\/04\/from-patient-to-doctor-how-a-transplant-recipient-became-a-transplant-physician\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From Patient to Doctor: How a Transplant Recipient Became a Transplant Physician&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":4054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_ecp_custom_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,29],"tags":[1804,1806,1808],"post_format":[],"Dislikes":"","Likes":"","simplefavorites_count":"","views":"1214","post_likes_plusCounter":"2","post_dislikes_plusCounter":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6502,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501\/revisions\/6502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6501"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=6501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}