Article: Surgeon created national organ transplant network; Longtime NU doctor turned to list in '01 for his own replacement heart

JAMES STUART WOLF SR.

1935-2007

Dr. James S. Wolf created the national organ transplant system, which has helped save or extend the lives of hundreds of thousands of patients, including Dr. Wolf himself.

Dr. Wolf received a lifesaving heart transplant operation in 2001, after waiting for months on the list that he had created for allocating the precious organs.

"He wanted to be part of the system he created," said his daughter, Anneliza Itkor.

"That was why he waited 40 weeks for his heart. They went in, and afterwards the heart surgeon said there was practically nothing left of the heart muscle. He got it in the nick of time."

Dr. James Stuart Wolf Sr. died Aug. 6 in South ...

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