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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

Transplant Surgery
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
Christine Mona Wu, MD

Director, Transplant Nephrology Program

Transplant Research

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

Transplant Coordinators

Erin McMahon, MHA, RN, CCTC — Director of Kidney Transplantation
Antoinette Carroll, RN, CTCC
Seth Cress, BA, BSN, RN-BC, CCTC, MSNBA
Gina Doyle, BSN, RN, CCTC
Aileen D. Gallatin, MSED, BSN, RN, CCTC
Elaine Lander, BSN, RN, CNN, CCTC
Christine Lion, BSN, RN, CCTC
Alice Maglione, RN, CCTC
Nanci McCombs, BSN, RN, CCTC
Tara Nolan, BSN, RN, CCTC
Lori Ann Schrall, RN, CCTC
Rita Swink, RN
Michelle Turkovich, RN
Tracie Smith, BSN, RN
Rita Swink, RN
Elizabeth Anthony, RN
Jourdan Koutsavlis, BSN, RN
Christine Davis, RN