Transplant Surgery Fellowship
Mission & Vision
The objective of our University of Miami/Jackson Health System Transplant Surgery Fellowship Program is to develop proficiency in the surgical and medical management of patients with end-stage organ diseases amenable to transplantation. This objective should be achieved through a 24-month structured supplemental program for the study and treatment of these diseases in an accredited and properly supervised transplant surgery fellowship.
Mission & Vision
The objective of our University of Miami/Jackson Health System Transplant Surgery Fellowship Program is to develop proficiency in the surgical and medical management of patients with end-stage organ diseases amenable to transplantation. This objective should be achieved through a 24-month structured supplemental program for the study and treatment of these diseases in an accredited and properly supervised transplant surgery fellowship.
Program Director’s Welcome
The Transplant Surgery Fellowship Program has been a part of Jackson Memorial Hospital for more than 30 years. Jackson Memorial Hospital is a large, university-affiliated county hospital and is a unique setting for your certified surgical transplant experience, providing training in basic certification in liver and kidney transplantation, and also special certification in intestine and pancreas transplantation.
Program Director’s Welcome
The Transplant Surgery Fellowship Program has been a part of Jackson Memorial Hospital for more than 30 years. Jackson Memorial Hospital is a large, university-affiliated county hospital and is a unique setting for your certified surgical transplant experience, providing training in basic certification in liver and kidney transplantation, and also special certification in intestine and pancreas transplantation.
Our faculty has academic appointments in the Department of Surgery at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine. A joint program between the UM Miller School of Medicine and Jackson Memorial Hospital, the Miami Transplant Institute is one of the largest transplant programs in the country. This designation places the Miami Transplant Institute in the unique position to provide a significant surgical experience for fellows in intestine, kidney, liver and pancreas transplants, as well as multi-organ deceased donor procurement. The living donor kidney program performs between 60 and 100 kidney transplants annually. Our fellows are able to learn laparoscopic live donor kidney procurement and have the unique opportunity to learn how to manage kidneys on the preservation machine. In addition, our fellows become facile in transplant immunology and participate in novel immune-suppression protocols.
Our graduates count themselves among the most well-trained transplant surgeons in the country, and are confident in their surgical skill set and management of transplant patients. Fellows participate in all aspects of transplant medicine, including selection of both deceased donors and living donors, as well as recipients.
The surroundings in which you train are an important aspect of selecting a fellowship program and Miami is a wonderful place to both live and work. Situated in one of the world’s premier destinations, we invite you to come see for yourself why patients, faculty and students from across the country and world are drawn to the University of Miami/Jackson Health System.
– Mahmoud Morsi, MD
Description
Our graduates count themselves among the most well-trained transplant surgeons in the country, and are confident in their surgical skill set and management of transplant patients. Fellows participate in all aspects of transplant medicine, including selection of both deceased donors and living donors, as well as recipients.
The surroundings in which you train are an important aspect of selecting a fellowship program and Miami is a wonderful place to both live and work. Situated in one of the world’s premier destinations, we invite you to come see for yourself why patients, faculty and students from across the country and world are drawn to the University of Miami/Jackson Health System.
– Mahmoud Morsi, MD
Transplant Surgery Fellowship Fast Facts
Accreditation
ASTS
Number of Transplant Surgery Fellows per Year?
4
Duration of Transplant Surgery Fellowship?
2 years
Transplant Surgery Fellowship Clinical Experience
Overview
Fellows are involved with journal club; morbidity and mortality meetings; pathology conferences; selection committees; quality assurance and performance improvement projects/initiatives; tumor board and a variety of core conference didactic teaching sessions, as well as multidisciplinary conferences that are held on a weekly basis. Complicated cases of transplant candidates are also presented at pre-transplant committee meetings for multidisciplinary discussion. Lectures on clinical and experimental transplant and transplant immunology are provided by faculty members and invited speakers approximately once a month. Specialists give lectures and rounds on a regular basis for topics on interpretation of biopsies; critical care; histopathology; infectious diseases, post-transplant management; radiological interpretation; tissue typing and transplant anesthesia. In-depth discussions, which are not only encouraged but essential to the program and fellow training, will also be carried out on many of these topics.
Fellows will be required to partake in scholarly activities such as participation in abstracts, research projects or other published work with individual mentoring from faculty members.
Fellows receive a printed curriculum outlining key topics for mastery and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons Academic Universe will be required on a monthly basis.
Year 1 (PGY-6)
First-year, PGY-6, fellows will become practiced in deceased donor multi-organ procurement organ recovery; kidney/pancreas transplant and living donor nephrectomies over the course of six months. The remaining six months will be spent on deceased donor multi-organ procurement organ recovery and liver/intestine/multivisceral transplant.
Year 2 (PGY-7)
Second-year, PGY-7 fellows will expand their practice of deceased donor multi-organ procurement organ recovery; kidney/pancreas transplant and living donor nephrectomies over the course of six months. Over the next six months, fellows will continue enhancement of their deceased donor multi-organ procurement organ recovery and liver/intestine/multivisceral transplant practice, while adding the transplant surgical intensive care unit into the mix.
The second year rotation schedule is potentially flexible and may be adjusted depending on the fellow’s personal primary interest and future job opportunity. (this is dependent on several factors, including, but not limited to, fellows meeting the volume requirements for the liver-kidney certificate and fellow interest in specialist certificates, e.g., intestine or pancreas.)
Your Transplant Surgery Fellowship Faculty
George W. Burke, III, MD, FACS
Professor, Clinical Surgery, Kidney Pancreas Transplantation
Gaetano Ciancio, MD, MBA, FACS
Professor of Surgery and Urology
The Brandon Kyle Simonsen Endowed Chair in Transplant Surgery
Chief Academic Officer of the Miami Transplant Institute
Chief Medical Officer of the Miami Transplant Institute
Jose M. Figueiro, MD
Associate Professor, Clinical Surgery, Kidney Pancreas Transplantation
Mahmoud Morsi, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Surgery, Kidney Pancreas Transplantation Abdominal Transplant Surgery Fellowship Director
Rafael Miyashiro Nunes dos Santos, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Surgery, Liver/GI Miami Transplant Institute
Gennaro Selvaggi, MD
Associate Professor, Clinical Surgery, Liver/GI Miami Transplant Institute
Alfred Joseph Tector, MD, PhD
Professor of Clinical Surgery, Liver/GI Miami Transplant Institute
Akin Tekin, MD
Associate Professor, Clinical Surgery, Liver/GI Miami Transplant Institute
Vighnesh Vetrivel Venkatasamy, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery, Liver/GI Miami Transplant Institute
Rodrigo Vianna, MD, PhD
Chief, Liver/GI Services, Department of Surgery,
Director, Transplant Services
Professor, Clinical Surgery
Alumni Placements Include:
Cleveland Clinic
Mercy Health – Toledo
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
Valley View Medical Center
Various private practices
Alumni Placements Include:
Cleveland Clinic
Mercy Health – Toledo
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
Valley View Medical Center
Various private practices
Notable Alumni
Gaetano Ciancio, MD, MBA, FACS
Associate Director, Kidney and Kidney/Pancreas Transplantation
Director of Transplant Education and Research of Minority Groups
Professor, Surgery and Urology
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
Jose M. Figueiro, MD
Associate Professor, Clinical Surgery, Kidney Pancreas Transplantation
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
Nishida Seigo, MD, PhD
Chief, Liver and Pediatric Transplantation
Westchester Medical Center
Akin Tekin, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Surgery, Liver/GI Miami Transplant Institute
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
Rodrigo Vianna, MD, PhD
Chief, Liver/GI Services, Department of Surgery
Director, Transplant Services
Professor, Clinical Surgery
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
Gaetano Ciancio, MD, MBA, FACS
Associate Director, Kidney and Kidney/Pancreas Transplantation
Director of Transplant Education and Research of Minority Groups
Professor, Surgery and Urology
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
Jose M. Figueiro, MD
Associate Professor, Clinical Surgery, Kidney Pancreas Transplantation
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
Nishida Seigo, MD, PhD
Chief, Liver and Pediatric Transplantation
Westchester Medical Center
Akin Tekin, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Surgery, Liver/GI Miami Transplant Institute
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
Rodrigo Vianna, MD, PhD
Chief, Liver/GI Services, Department of Surgery
Director, Transplant Services
Professor, Clinical Surgery
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine