A team at Penn, led by L. Scott Levin, chair of orthopaedic surgery and a professor of plastic surgery, received a grant to further work in Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation (VCA), launching a study aimed at better understanding and measuring the physical, emotional, and social outcomes of upper extremity VCA recipients. The ultimate goal will be to implement more holistic quality of life outcomes evaluations and to standardize the VCA candidate screening process. This work was supported by the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs endorsed by the Department of Defense, through the Reconstructive Transplant Research Program (RTRP) Qualitative Research Award. This support is part of a larger grant shared with researchers from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and the University of Delaware.