Carmen Blandin Tarleton, who recently received a face transplant at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, chose to take a risky medication in order to stop her immune system from rejecting the donor face and is now on the road to recovery. Bohdan Pomahac, HMS associate professor of surgery, was the lead surgeon. Anil Chandraker, HMS associate professor of medicine
at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Terry Strom, HMS professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, are also quoted.
