Transplant Talk: Gearing Up for a Second (or Third!) Transplant

Recorded: April 24, 2025

Have you been told that a second transplant may be on your horizon? Are you curious about what the process is like, and what you can expect from it?

Then this Transplant Talk is for you!  We have assembled a phenomenal patient and caregiver panel who will be sharing their personal experience preparing for, receiving, and recovering from a second (or third!) transplant.  

Meet our Panel!

Jen Weber has had 3 double lung transplants, most recently in 2023 at Duke University hospital in Durham, NC. She lives and enjoys life in Indiana, where her first two transplants in 2010 and 2012 took place at Indiana University- Methodist Hospital. Her first transplant was due to Cystic Fibrosis. 

Linda Willis received a bilateral lung transplant in 2004 from UCSF due to Familial Pulmonary Fibrosis.  Approximately twenty years after her lung transplant, she received a kidney transplant thanks to her husband and the paired kidney exchange process facilitated by the National Kidney Registry at UCSF.  

Nathan Lawrenson has been a caregiver to his wife Tricia, a CFer and three-time double lung transplant recipient, for more than twenty years.  He started and moderates an online support group for caregivers of lung transplant patients of Duke University Hospital. Nathan and Tricia live on the Outer Banks of North Carolina with their two children, where Nathan manages a professional kitchen making the world’s greatest ice cream sandwiches.