CAMC Kidney Transplant Center Administrator Alice Jones, CAMC Lead Transplant/Living Donor Coordinator Susan Hanna, Dr. Shakir Hussein, William Wallace, Johanna Holt, and Dr. Santosh Nagaraju. 
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CHARLESTON W.Va. – The first successful kidney transplant surgery in West Virginia was completed on Sept. 29, 1987. With nearly 1,700 transplants performed in the 36 years that have followed, what was once a major procedure is now on the precipice of becoming same-day surgery. 

“Thirty five years ago, the surgery was very different,” said Dr. Santosh Nagaraju, kidney transplant surgeon at Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC). Nagaraju spoke at Charleston’s CAMC…