Today’s Cystic Fibrosis Podcast features Nilani Ravichandran, current AVP for Cardiothoracic and Vascular Services at Beth Israel Medical Center, who spent over 17 years as a lung transplant coordinator at NY Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. She sat down with Jerry Cahill to explain what transplant coordinators do, how they work to minimize infection and rejection, and how they teach their patients to care for their new organs. Nilani says that a transplant coordinator’s goal is to give his or her patients the best quality of life possible when they reach the end stages of their diseases.

This video podcast was made possible through an unrestricted educational grant from Chiesi to the Boomer Esiason Foundation.