Our Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Experts

The following experts are members of the Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program at UPMC.

Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program Surgeons

Abhinav Humar, MD
Division Chief, Transplantation Surgery
Clinical Director, Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute
Thomas E. Starzl Professor of Transplantation Surgery
Amit Tevar, MD
Surgical Director, Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation
Martin Nicolas Wijkstrom, MD
Director, Islet Cell Transplant Program
Director, Transplant Surgery Fellowship Program
Armando Ganoza, MD
Surgical Director, Pediatric Kidney Transplant Program, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Vikraman Gunabushanam, MD
Director, Organ Procurement
Michele Molinari, MD
Transplant Surgery

UPMC Renal-Electrolyte Division Nephrologists

Puneet Sood, MD
Medical Director, Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation
Sundaram Hariharan, MD
Transplant Nephrology
Rajil Mehta, MD
Transplant Nephrology
Chethan Maduvinakodi Puttarajappa, MD, MS
Transplant Nephrology
Nirav A. Shah, MD
Transplant Nephrology
Akhil Sharma, MD
Transplant Nephrology

Transplant Research

Fadi Lakkis, MD, Scientific Director, Thomas E. Starzl Transplant Institute

Transplant Coordinators

Erin McMahon, MHA, RN, CCTC, Director, Kidney and Live Donor Transplant

Pretransplant Coordinators

G. Seth Cress, BA, BSN, CCTC, MSNBA
Chelsea Good, RN, BSN
Ashley Markovitz, RN
Nanci McCombs, BSN, RN, CCTC

Posttransplant Coordinators

Elizabeth Brown, BSN
Jourdan Cable, RN, BSN
Billie Hill, RN, MSN, PHRN
Elena Kaiser, RN, BSN
Alice Maglione, RN, CCTC II
Cassandra Miller, RN
Laura Nirschel, RN, BSN
Rachel Wilson, RN, BSN

Living Donor Coordinators

Stacy Acevedo, RN, BSN, CCTC II
Rita Swink, RN, CCTC II