Dr. Robert Montgomery made history last September when he became the first surgeon to successfully transplant a pig kidney into a living person. It’s a victory that’s especially sweet for the 62-year-old doctor, who’s only alive today because of a transplant.
Montgomery was born with a heart condition that killed both his father and older brother, both of whom died young (his brother at 35, his dad at 52). He finally got a heart transplant in 2018, after years of waiting because he wasn’t “sick enough” to make the organ donor list.
So he knows all too well “what the waiting is like as a patient,” Montgomery, head of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, told The Post. “The uncertainty of not knowing if you’re going to get an organ. I’m very aware of the people who don’t make it across the finish line.”
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