Interested applicants should email a CV, personal statement, medical school transcripts, USMLE Step 1 and 2 (CS) transcripts and three letters of recommendation to:

Chelsea Barkema and/or Peyton Killeen
Office of Surgical Education
Email:  Chelsea.A.Barkema@gunet.georgetown.edu
Email:  Peyton.A.Killeen@gunet.georgetown.edu

Please see our website for further details:
http://www.georgetownuniversityhospital.org/body.cfm?id=557518

Lahey Clinic Medical Center

Fellowship applications are now being accepted for a two-year advanced ASTS-approved training program in multi-organ transplantation at the Lahey Clinic Medical Center in Burlington, MA beginning July 1, 2013.  Applicants must be board certified, eligible or equivalent in general surgery, and hold or be eligible to obtain a full State of Massachusetts medical license.  The fellow will receive comprehensive training in all aspects of transplant management:  organ procurement and preservation, living donor and recipient surgery, evaluation and listing of prospective transplant candidates and post transplant care and immunosuppression management.  In addition, the fellow with gain experience in advanced Hepatobiliary surgery. 

Please submit applications to:
Elizabeth Pomfret, MD, PhD
Chair, Department of Transplantation
c/o Tina Schuurman- email: tina.m.schuurman@lahey.org
Lahey Clinic Medical Center
Department of Transplantation
41 Mall Road, 4 West
Phone:  781-744-7638

New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University

The fellowship at NYPH/CU is one of the premier training programs in the country.  The program performs approximately 250 kidney transplants, 130 liver transplants and 10-20 pancreas transplants.  Fellows along the surgical staff perform 150 hepatobiliary surgeries annually.  The LDLTx program is one of the most active in the US performing 20-25 LDLTs annually.  The kidney arm of the program offers an equally broad experience performing 125 LDRTx and approximately 125 DDRTx. 

Education is core to the mission of the program and fellows are expected to run the services and perform operations as the primary surgeon.

Contact info:

Please send a cover letter explaining your interest in transplantation, 3 letters of recommendation and curriculum vitae to the attention of Dr. Benjamin Samstein, Director, Transplant Surgery Fellowship to the transplant fellowship coordinator, Ms. Ana Mateo. 

Ana Mateo
Phone:  212-305-4199
Email:  Amm2208@columbia.edu

Website:  http://www.columbiasurgery.org/txfellowship/index.html

Stanford University

Fellows receive training in liver, kidney, pancreas and intestinal transplantation.  Approximately 90 livers and 130 kidney transplants are performed annually.  One third of these transplants are done in children, resulting in one of the best balanced training programs in the country.  Because of it, fellows learn a special set of skills such as splitting livers in vivo and ex situ, living donor operations, laparoscopic procedures and hepatobiliary and portal hypertension surgery.  Our large clinical volume coupled with the dynamic research environment at Stanford makes this Fellowship a premier training program.  In fact, Stanford fellows have enjoyed a long tradition of being highly sought after by transplant centers throughout the country.  Applications should be forwarded to:

Carlos O. Esquivel, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery and Chief, Division of Transplantation
Stanford University Division of Abdominal Transplantation
750 Welch Road, Suite 319
Palo Alto, CA 94304

Phone:  650-498-5689
Fax:  650-498-5690
or electronically to Katie Allen at kallen@stanford.edu

Website:  http://transplantation.stanford.edu/

The Miami Transplant Institute at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital in Florida

The Miami Transplant Institute is seeking applicants for a Transplant Fellowship beginning July 1, 2013.  This 2-year multi-organ fellowship is approved by the ASTS and will provide comprehensive training in kidney, liver, pancreas and intestinal transplantation, as well as deceased-donor multi-organ recovery and live donor nephrectomy. 

Applicants must have completed a General Surgery or Urology residency; prior training in the US is desirable.  International applicants must be ECFMG-certified, be eligible for an appropriate Visa, and meet the state training license requirement. 

Interested applicants should send a brief letter, curriculum vitae, and 3 letters of reference to:

Junichiro Sageshima, MD
Director, Abdominal Organ Transplant Fellowship Training
1801 NW 9th Avenue, #515
Miami, FL 33136
Email:  jsageshima@med.miami.edu

University of Alabama at Birmingham

The University of Alabama at Birmingham's ASTS accredited abdominal transplant fellowship will be accepting applications for its 2013 two-year program through the 2012 NRMP fellowship match.  One of the largest transplant programs in the United States, UAB performed nearly 400 abdominal transplants in 2010.  Fellows at UAB will receive comprehensive training in liver, kidney and pancreas transplantation, living and deceased organ recovery, and hepatobiliary and dialysis access surgery.  Fellows will be exposed to the pre-, intra- and post-operative management of adult and pediatric transplant patients, and will acquire an in-depth knowledge of transplant medicine and immunosuppression.  Fellows are offered the opportunity to participate in clinical research, and attendance at national meetings is encouraged and supported. 

For more information, please contact:

Jeremy Goodman, MD
Fellowship Director, Abdominal Transplant Surgery

jeremy.goodman@ccc.uab.edu
http://medicine.uab.edu/surgery/transplant/58619/