The two-year Transplant Surgery Fellowship at The University of Nebraska Medical Center is divided into two services. Transplant fellows will spend the majority of their first year on the kidney/pancreas service. While on the kidney/pancreas service, fellows are responsible for the clinical organization of the transplant service. Other residents rotating on kidney and liver services include mid-level general surgical and urology residents from UNMC, Creighton, Michigan State University or Mercy One (Des Moines, IA). During the kidney/pancreas service year fellows are involved with multi-organ donor operations. While on the Kidney/Pancreas service they will be trained in Donor Nephrectomies (Laparoscopic, Hand assisted & Robotic) as well as Dialysis access procedures. Early in the fellowship, the fellows are provided training in the performance of multi-organ procurement that includes liver, kidneys, pancreas and small bowel. They are also trained on utilizing the TransMedics perfusion pump. The second year on our transplant fellowship is primarily spent on the liver/small bowel transplant/Hepatobiliary/Intestinal Rehab service. The transplant fellows will be trained to perform Liver, intestinal, multi-organ transplants, liver resections, pancreatic surgeries and complex intestinal surgeries. The program also affords fellows experience in robotic liver and pancreas surgery.
For information about this fellowship, please contact Fellowship Coordinator, Becky Palensky
Luciano M Vargas, MD
Professor, Division of Transplant Surgery
Director, Transplant Surgery Fellowship
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Former Fellows
- Alan N. Langnas, Omaha, NE
- Shujun Li, Beijing China
- Dinesh Ranjan, Iron Mountain, MI
- Claire Fujiye Ozaki, TX
- J. Steve Bynon, Houston, TX
- Mark S. Cattral, Toronto, Ontario
- Jeffery A. Lowell, St. Louis, MO
- Rakesh K. Sindhi, Pittsburgh, PA
- Debra L. Sudan, Durham, NC
- John T. Jerius, Minden, LA
- Daniel Murillo, Kansas City, MO
- Gustaf Herlenius, Goteborg, Sweden
- Arnaud DeRoover, Liege, Belgium
- Srinath Chinnakotla, Minneapolis, MN
- Kishore R. Iyer, New York, NY
- Jean F. Botha, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Wendy J. Grant, Omaha, NE
- Alejandro Mejia, Dallas, TX
- David F. Mercer, Omaha, NE
- Kadiyala V. Ravindra, Durham, NC
- Timothy Schmitt, Kansas City, MO
- Georgios I. Hatzoudis, Brooklyn, NY
- Diane Alonso, Salt Lake City, UT
- Tamer Malik, Dayton, OH
- Govardhana Yannam, Augusta, GA
- Qasim Chaudhry, Des Moines, IA
- Lori Kautzman, Oklahoma City, OK
- Luciano Vargas, Omaha, NE
- Lokesh Bathla, San Antonio, TX
- Ameneh Kalani, Visalia, CA
- Gaurav Jain, Des Moines, IA
- Duncan Yoder, Norfolk, VA
- Shaheed Merani, Omaha, NE
- Haytham Maria, Saudi Arabia
- Praise Matemavi, Jackson, MS
- Blaire Anderson, Alberta, Canada
- Nathalie Sela, Edmonton, Canada
- Tyler Burnett, Milwaukee, WI
- Thomas Murickan, Pittsburg, PA