Evolving organ
transportation and logistics

because one unused lifesaving organ is too many

Who we are

Longitude Mobility is modernizing the way human organs are transported to critically ill patients. We disrupt conventional logistics models that limit transplantation surgeries that depend on timing, communication, and real-time visibility.

What We Do

Longitude helps medical aviation companies to improve their competitiveness, operations, and services in ways aligned to the needs of transplant centers and surgeons. We balance medical and logistics perspectives like no one else can.

Why we do it

Partnering with industry organizations and medical aviation companies, Longitude empowers cost effective alternatives and improvements to conventional logistics across all parts of the organ transportation journey – from ground and flight operations to booking.

Where We're Going

Longitude Mobility’s mission is to make organ and tissue transportation quicker, safer, seamless, sustainable, and cost effective. More and more lives are being saved as we modernize the logistics associated with the transport of donated hearts, lungs, livers, and kidneys.

Today, we’re delivering much-needed efficiencies in procurement, access, logistics, and cost to facilitate surgeries and shorter wait times. We’re also paving the way for tomorrow’s next generation of organ transportation solutions like drones and VTOL aircraft.

Advisory Solutions & Fractional Chief Medical Officer services

Saverio La Francesca, MD
Founder & Principal Consultant

Cardiovascular and transplant surgeon who has performed 10,000+ surgeries in a 30+ year career at renowned institutions including Debakey, JC Walter, UTHealth, and the Texas Heart Institute.

Oversaw organ procurement and transport systems for the Thoracic Transplant Program at Stanford and served as procurement surgeon for the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.

Currently a Principal Cardiothoracic Surgeon at TransMedics, transferring hearts and lungs from donor sites to transplant centers.

Experienced in all stages in organ transplantation from donor ID protocols to attaching organs to system hardware by hand, restarting function and maximizing viability in flight, delivery protocols, operating room procedures, and actual transplantation.

Served as Director and Attending Surgeon in top US hospitals and world-leading cardiovascular facilities and understands the perspectives and challenges of transplant surgeons and teams.

Leverages business perspectives gained in President, EVP, and Chief Medical Officer roles for international companies.

Passionate about improving the way that things are done in organ transportation where the consequence for inefficiency is too often paid in lives.