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ISHLT Honors Kirklin, Hess and Taylor with Lifetime Achievement Awards New Distinguished Service Award created to honor longtime Executive Director Amanda Rowe. News provided by Share this article Share this article ADDISON, Texas, April 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- During its 2021 virtual Annual Meeting, the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) honored the recipients of its 2020 and 2021 Lifetime Achievement Awards, and announced the creation of the Amanda W. Rowe Distinguished Service Award. 2020 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Michael L. Hess, MD ISHLT Honors Kirklin, ...

Aged 12 and older turned it down first. >> it tugs at my heart. it's not a perfect system. there is no perfect system. it's the best we can do right knew. >> reporter: dr. stuart sweet is a director at the network for organ sharing. >> if i change the system to give sarah an advantage, there's another patient, very likely an adolescent who then gets a disadvantage, and i'm not in a position, i don't think the system should be in a position to do that on a case-by-case basis. we've built a system that tries to be as fair to everyone as possible. >> with the clock tick on sarah's life. >> it's h...

We had hoped it would be much, much further down the road, but over the years her disease has progressed. >> reporter: if sarah was 12 years old, she'd have a higher chance of receiving adult lungs, but since she's 10, she primarily has access to children's lungs, which are in shorter supply. >> that's insane. it shouldn't be about their age. if she's the sickest person, she should qualify. >> reporter: under the rules, the only way sarah could receive an adult lung is if the other patients in her region who are aged 12 and older turned it down first. >> it tugs at my heart. it's not a perfect...