MEDICAL STAFF
LEADERSHIP TRANSPLANT CARDIOLOGISTS
Göran Klintmalm, MD, PhD, FACS, Chief and Medical Director of
the Transplant Services Department, Chairman of the Baylor Annette
C. and Harold C. Simmons Transplant Institute Shelley A. Hall, MD, FACC, Chief, Transplant Cardiology and
Mechanical Circulatory Support Services
Susan Joseph, MD, Medical Director, Ventricular Assist Device Program
Jose Mendez, MD, Medical Director, Advanced Heart Failure
Fellowship Program
Amarinda Bindra, MD, Assistant Medical Director, Outreach for
Advanced Heart Disease and Transplant
Cesar Yvan Guerrero-Miranda, Assistant Medical Director,
Outreach - South
Parag Kale, MD, Medical Director, Amylord Center
Melody Sherwood, MD
Robert Gottlieb, MD, Assistant Medical Director, Outreach – Advanced
Heart Disease/Transplant
ABDOMINAL TRANSPLANT SURGEONS
Giuliano Testa, MD, FACS, MBA, Surgical Chief, Abdominal
Transplant, Medical Director, Living Donor Liver Transplant Program
of the Baylor Annette C. and Harold C. Simmons Transplant Institute
Tiffany Anthony, MD, Surgical Director, Laparoscopic Kidney Donation
Ernest Beecherl, MD, Director, Auto Islet Transplantation
Hoylan Fernandez, MD, Transplant Surgeon
Robert M. Goldstein, MD, FACS, Surgical Director, Liver Pancreas
Disease Center at Baylor Dallas, Division Chief, Hepatobiliary,
Assistant Medical Director, Transplantation Services at Baylor Dallas
Peter Tae Wan Kim, MD, MSc, FRCS(C), Director of the Islet Cell
Program for Baylor Scott & White Health, Assistant Surgical Director,
Living Donor Liver Transplantation, Associate Program Director/
Surgical Instructor
Gregory J. McKenna, MD, FRCS(C), FACS, Director, Liver
Transplant Surgical Research, System Physician Informatics Leader
Nicholas Onaca, MD, Surgical Director, Kidney Transplantation,
Interim Director, Allo Islet Cell Transplantation
Richard M. Ruiz, MD, FACS, Surgical Director, Pancreas Transplant,
Assistant Director, Fellowship Program, Interim Surgical Director,
Baylor Scott & White – Fort Worth Transplant Program
HEART TRANSPLANT SURGEONS
Gonzalo Gonzalez-Stawinski, MD, Chief, Heart Transplantation and
Mechanical Circulatory Support at Baylor Dallas, Chief, Cardiovascular
Surgery Services at Baylor Dallas
Themistokles Chamogeorgakis, MD, Associate Director, Heart
Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support, Medical
Director, Quality for Cardiovascular Surgical Services
Brian Lima, MD, Director, Clinical Research, Heart Transplantation
and Mechanical Circulatory Support, Surgical Director for the
Ventricular Assist Device Program
Juan MacHannaford, MD, Vice Chairman, Cardiovascular
Surgical Services
Aldo Rafael, MD
LUNG TRANSPLANT SURGEONS
David P. Mason, MD, Chief, Thoracic Surgery and Lung
Transplantation at Baylor Scott & White Health, Chief, Department
of Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation at Baylor Dallas
Themistokles Chamogeorgakis, MD, Associate Director, Heart
Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support, Cardiovascular
Surgery Medical Director for Quality Committee
Gary Schwartz, MD, Surgical Director, Major Airway Disorders
Department of Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation,
Baylor Dallas
Aldo Rafael, MD
TRANSPLANT HEPATOLOGISTS
James Trotter, MD, Medical Director of Liver Transplant, Baylor
Annette C. and Harold C. Simmons Transplant Institute, Jim and Angela
Thompson Chair – Hepatology, Research and Scholarly Activities
Mohammad Ashfaq, MD
Sumeet Asrani, MD, MSC
Manjushree Gautam, MD, MAS
Stevan A. Gonzalez, MD, MS, Medical Director, Liver Transplant,
Baylor Scott & White – Fort Worth
Linsheng Guo, MD
Maria Lepe, MD, Director, Hepatology Fellowship Program
Apurva A. Modi, MD
Natalie G. B. Murray, MD
Jacqueline O’Leary, MD, MPH, Director of Research, Baylor Annette
C. and Harold C. Simmons Transplant Institute, Medical Director,
Hepatology/Liver Unit at Baylor Dallas
Robert Perrillo, MD
Robert S. Rahimi, MD, MSCR
Saleh Elwir, MD
Ranjeeta Bahirwani, MD
TRANSPLANT NEPHROLOGISTS
Bernard V. Fischbach, MD, Medical Director, Renal and
Pancreas Transplantation
Steven Hays, MD, Medical Director, Hemodialysis