DECISIONS IN A HEARTBEAT: HOW 2 UVA RESEARCHERS HELP CHILDREN ON TRANSPLANT WAITLIST

Inevitably, the call comes in the dark hours of the morning, the result of something tragic. Dr. Michael McCulloch, an associate professor and pediatric cardiologist at UVA Children’s Heart Center, picks up the phone. A voice on the other end explains, as he knew it would, that a pediatric heart donation is available. Does he want it?

Urgency is never felt so keenly as when it involves organ donorship. Read the full story.