Vanderbilt performed its first kidney transplant on Oct. 3, 1962, when a kidney from a deceased child was transplanted into an adult with renal failure. The occasion was the first organ transplant in Nashville and one of the first in the South.

Vanderbilt performed its first kidney transplant on Oct. 3, 1962, when a kidney from a deceased child was transplanted into an adult with renal failure. The occasion was the first organ transplant in Nashville and one of the first in the South.