40 LEADING MEDICINE: ADVANCED ORGAN FAILURE MANAGEMENT AND TRANSPLANT
TRANSPLANT LEADERSHIP A. Osama Gaber, MD, FACS Director, Houston Methodist J.C. Walter Jr. Transplant Center Vice chair, administration and faculty affairs, Department of Surgery George P. Noon, MD Director, Transplant Executive Council
CARDIAC TRANSPLANT & ASSIST DEVICES Scott Scheinin, MD, FACS Surgical director, thoracic transplant Jerry D. Estep, MD, FACC Medical director, heart and heart-lung transplant Brian Bruckner, MD Director, mechanical circulatory support
LUNG TRANSPLANT Scott Scheinin, MD, FACS Surgical director, thoracic transplant Thomas Kaleekal, MD Medical director, lung transplant
ECMO Brian Bruckner, MD Surgical director John Fetter, MD Medical director
INTESTINAL FAILURE PROGRAM Sherilyn Gordon Burroughs, MD, FACS Director
RENAL & PANCREAS TRANSPLANT A. Osama Gaber, MD, FACS Surgical director, kidney transplant Richard Knight, MD, FACS Surgical director, pancreas and kidney-pancreas transplant Juan Gonzalez, MD Co-medical director, kidney, pancreas and kidney-pancreas transplant Horacio J. Adrogué, Sr., MD Co-medical director, kidney, pancreas and kidney-pancreas transplant
LIVER TRANSPLANT
ADMINISTRATION
R. Mark Ghobrial, MD, PhD, FACS, FRCS (Ed) Surgical director, liver transplant
Michael Garcia, JD, RN Senior vice president
Director, Sherrie and Alan Conover Center for Liver Disease & Transplantation Victor Ankoma-Sey, MD Medical director, liver transplant Joseph S. Galati, MD, FACGT Medical director, Sherrie and Alan Conover Center for Liver Disease & Transplantation Howard P. Monsour, Jr., MD Chief, hepatology, Department of Medicine
BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT Helen Heslop, MD Director, Center for Cell & Gene Therapy
Ashish Saharia, MD Associate director, kidney and pancreas transplant
George Carrum, MD Director, adult outpatient clinic for cell & gene therapy
Elie Saber, MD Living donor advocate
Director, National Marrow Donor Program
PROCUREMENT
IMMUNOBIOLOGY RESEARCH CENTER
Hemangshu Podder, MD, PhD Director, abdominal procurement
Xian C. Li, MD, PhD Director
Dewei Ren, MD Director, thoracic procurement Brian J. Dunkin, MD, FACS Co-director, living donor procurement Richard E. Link, MD, PhD Co-director, living donor procurement
Scott Flowers Vice president Susan A. Zylicz, BSN, MHA, RN, CCTC Director, transplant administration Julie Corkrean, BSN, RN, CCTC Liver transplant manager Anthony Flores Financial manager Deborah Harvey, BSN, RN, CCTC Lung transplant manager Jordan Jeon, BA, CTBS, CPTC Transplant operations manager Laurie Loza, BSN, RN, CCTC Heart transplant and VAD manager Marty Martin, BSN, RN, CCTC Transplant clinical operations manager Lisa B. Yoder, BSN, RN, CCTC Kidney and pancreas transplant manager
PSYCHIATRY Inna D’Empaire, MD Pyschiatry lead