Staff and Fellows
Faculty
Jean C. Emond, MD
Thomas S. Zimmer Professor of Reconstructive Surgery (in Pediatrics)
Vice Chair of Surgery Executive Director, Transplant Initiative
Fellowship Program Director
Tomoaki Kato, MD, FACS
Edwin C. and Anne K. Weiskopf Professor of Surgical Oncology
Chief of Abdominal Organ Transplantation, Surgical Director of Liver Transplant
Jason Hawksworth, MD
Surgical Director, Adult Liver Transplantation
Chief, Hepatobiliary Surgery, Division of Abdominal Organ Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery
Director of Robotic Liver Surgery Program, Division of Abdominal Organ Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery
Associate Professor of Surgery
Peter Liou, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Nathaly P. Llore, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Associate Program Director
Lloyd E. Ratner, MD, FACS
Professor of Surgery
Director of Renal and Pancreatic Transplantation
Joshua Weiner, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Surgical Director of Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplantation
Rodrigo Sandoval, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery at CUMC
Laparoscopic Nephrectomy, Liver Transplant, Kidney Transplant, Pancreas Transplant
Soo Youn Yi, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Associate Program Director
Weill Cornell
Benjamin Samstein, MD
Adjunct Associate Professor of Surgery at Weill Cornell
Surgical Director, Living Donor Liver Transplant
Juan P. Rocca, MD
Attending Surgeon, Weill Cornell
Dustin Carpenter, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Surgery at Weill Cornell
Rebecca Craig-Shapiro, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery at Weill Cornell
Hepatologists
Columbia
Lorna M. Dove, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine (in Surgery) at CUMC
Elizabeth Verna, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Medicine at CUMC
Julia Wattacheril, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine at CUMC
Alyson N. Fox, MD, MSCE
Assistant Professor of Medicine at CUMC
Medical Director, Living Donor Liver Transplantation
Rajani Sharma, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine at CUMC
Weill Cornell
Robert S. Brown, Jr., MD, MPH
Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Medicine
Vice Chair, Transitions of Care
Clinical Chief, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Danielle Brandman, MD
Medical director of Liver Transplantation
ssistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Interim) at Weill Cornell
Arun Jesudian, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell
Catherine Lucero, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell
Russell Rosenblatt, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell
Emily Schonfeld, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell
Anthony Choi, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell
Nephrologists
David J. Cohen, MD
Professor of Medicine at CUMC
Jae Hyung Chang, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine at CUMC
R. John Crew, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Geoffrey Dube, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Hilda Elena Fernandez, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (in Pediatrics) at CUMC
Interim Medical Director, Pediatric Kidney Transplant Program
Sumit Mohan, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at CUMC
Medical Director of Renal Transplantation
Current Fellows
Senior Fellows
Junior Fellows
Graduates
Position out of Fellowship
2024
- Christine Haugen, MD – Attending Surgeon, Cincinnati University
- Yvone Helly, MD – Attending Surgeon, UC Davis
2023
- Nathaly Llore, MD – Attending Surgeon, Columbia University
- Jonathan Merola, MD – Attending Surgeon, Cincinnati Children's Hospital
2022
- Grace Lee-Riddle, MD – Attending Surgeon, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
- Hau-Tien Peter Liou, MD – Attending Surgeon, Columbia University
2021
- Dustin Carpenter, MD, MPH – Attending Surgeon, Weil Cornell
- Sulemon Chaudhry, MD – Attending Surgeon, Cleveland Clinic
2020
- Francis S. Bauldrick-Hernandez – Attending Surgeon, Weill Cornell
- Sidharth Sharma – Attending Surgeon, Cleveland Clinic, Miami-Ft. Lauderdale
2019
- Eve Beaudry Simoneau, MD – Attending Surgeon, Centre Hospitalier del Université de Montréal
- Rong Zhixia, MD – Attending Surgeon, Centre Hospitalier del Université de Montréal
2018
- Advaith Bongu, MD – Attending Surgeon, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick
- R. Cutler Quillin, III, MD – Attending Surgeon, University of Cincinnati
2017
- Vanessa L. Cowan, MD – Attending Surgeon, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Minh-Tri JP Nguyen, MD – Attending Surgeon, SSM Health Saint Louis University
2016
- Abhishek Mathur, MD – Attending Surgeon, Columbia University
- Tarunjeet Klair, MD – Attending Surgeon, UT Health San Antonio
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2015
- Soo Youn Yi, MD – Attending Surgeon, University of Maryland Medical Center
- Christine W. Du, MD – Attending Surgeon, Geisinger Health System
2014
- Jay Graham, MD – Attending Surgeon, Montefiore Medical Center (K, P, L)
- Ronald Parsons, MD – Attending Surgeon, Emory University (K, P, L)
2013
- Adam Griesemer, MD – Attending Surgeon, Columbia (Peds Liver)
- Karim Halazun, MD – Attending Surgeon, Emory University (K, P, L)
2012
- Madison Cuffy, MD – Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Cincinnati (L, K, P)
- Arunthathi Mahendran, MD – Consultant Transplant Surgeon, Leicester Royal Infirmary (K, P, L)
2011
- Giridhar Vedula, MD – Attending Surgeon, Florida Hospital (L, K, P)
- Anthony Watkins, MD – Assistant Professor, Cornell University (K,P)
2010
- Vaughn Whittaker, MD – Attending Surgeon, St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital (K)
2009
- Shakir Hussein, MD – Surgical Director of Kidney Transplant, Detroit Medical Center
- Jason Rolls, MD – Assistant Professor, Georgia Regents Health (K)
- Piotr Witkowski, MD – Assistant Professor, University of Chicago (K, L, P)
2008
- Seth Narins, MD – Assistant Professor, Harrisburg Hospital (K, P)
2007
- Rodrigo Sandoval, MD – Assistant Professor of Surgery, Columbia (L, K, P)
- Abrar Khan, MD – SKMC, Director of Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery
2006
- Benjamin Samstein, MD – Assistant Professor, Columbia (L, K)
- James Guarrera, MD – Director of Liver Transplantation, University Hospital Newark, NJ
2005
- Michael Goldstein, MD – Director of Kidney/Pancreas Transplant, Mount Sinai Hospital (L, K, P, I)
2004
- Raghu Vardaraghan, MD – Transplant Attending, Bangalore, India
2003
- Sarah Bellemare, MD – Assistant Professor, Montefiore Medical Center (L)
- John Allendorf, MD – Assistant Professor, Columbia Hepatobiliary/Surg Onc
2002
- Michael Marvin, MD – Director of Transplantation, University of Louisville (L)