Jimmy Light ‘60

Dr. Jimmy Light is an organ transplant pioneer. He trained in surgery, transplantation and immunology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and became a member of the newly formed transplant program there in 1971. In 1977, he was appointed professor of surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Medical School, where he combined the transplant programs of the Army and the Navy. After leaving military service in 1983, he became director of transplantation services at the Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C. Under his leadership, the program grew to become the dominant program in the region and the ninth largest kidney transplant program in the nation.