Description

This is a three-year, non-American Society of Transplant Surgeons accredited fellowship that begins March 2026 and will end in April 2029. The fellowship is designed to equip general surgeons with the advanced skills and expertise required to perform multi-organ abdominal transplant procedures. There is an increasing number of patients needing solid organ transplants.  Currently there are over 89,000 kidney failure patients and over 9,000 liver failure patients on the organ transplant waitlist. There is an increasing need for well-trained transplant surgeons.

We have a very seasoned Faculty with many years of experience in transplantation. Our team has more than ten transplant coordinators.

Although this fellowship will be focused on deceased donor liver procurements and transplants,   the fellows will be exposed to complex adult and pediatric deceased liver and kidney transplants, living donor nephrectomy, living donor kidney transplant, pancreas transplant, complex hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery, dialysis access surgery, and complex general surgery procedures on cirrhotic and end-stage renal disease patients. We have extensive multidisciplinary collaboration that can be of great educational importance to incoming fellows including collaboration with transplant nephrology (common rounds), transplant hepatology, and pediatric transplant hepatology and nephrology.

The Fellows will be exposed to normothermic machine perfusion, normothermic regional perfusion, and hypothermic oxygenated perfusion of the deceased donor livers. Research opportunities are also available with basic science research in ischemia reperfusion injury in the normothermic perfusion core. Moreover, clinical research opportunities and trials are available.

Requirements

1.  U.S. General Surgery trainees must be board certified or board eligible

2.  International General Surgery trainees must be board certified from home country

3.  We are unable to support H1B visas