以美国为基地的英国人捐助580K美元, 以表彰她弟弟拯救生命的心脏移植, 并促进英国心脏移植研究。 A $580K donation from a U.S.-based Brit honors her brother’s life-saving heart transplant and boosts UK heart transplant research.

剑桥的皇家Papworth慈善事业获得英国出生的慈善家Wendy J Tomlin-Hess最大的一笔捐款453 611.60英镑,现在美国,以纪念她的兄弟Terry。 她的兄弟Terry在2015年被医院的首创心脏移植挽救了生命。 The Royal Papworth Charity in Cambridge received its largest single donation—£453,611.60—from British-born philanthropist Wendy J Tomlin-Hess, now in the U.S., in honor of her brother Terry, whose life was saved by a pioneering heart transplant at the hospital in 2015. 这份礼物支持了医院在循环道死亡移植(DCD)后在捐赠方面的领导作用,这是欧洲的第一次,为研究提供资金,以改善捐赠者心脏存活能力评估,将保存时间从6小时延长到6天,并加强临床研究设施。 The gift supports the hospital’s leadership in donation after circulatory death (DCD) transplants, the first in Europe, funding research to improve donor heart viability assessment, extend preservation time from six hours to six days, and strengthen its clinical research facility. 自首次进行DCD移植以来,皇家Papworth公司进行了147次这种手术,其中在联合王国最多。 Since the first DCD transplant, Royal Papworth has performed 147 such procedures, the most in the UK. 这一捐赠被视为对全球病人护理的变革。 The donation is seen as transformative for global patient care.