About Gene Gaillard and the first lung transplantation at Baylor University Medical Center. From: Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings | Date: April 1, 2000| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2000 The Baylor University Medical Center. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

When one is transplanted, that is it--you are fixed--you go forward with no time frames--you are going to live until you die anyway--you are not just a statistic--you live a normal life and you do things normally.

--Gene Gaillard, July 30, 1999

In 1963, Dr. James Hardy performed the world's first human lung transplant at University Hospital in Jackson, Mississippi. (Dr. and Mrs. Hardy have 4 children--all daughters and all doctors [2 MDs and 2 PhDs], one of whom is Katherine Hardy Little, MD, a gastroenterologist at Baylor University Medical Center [BUMC].) In 1990, Dr. ...

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