The 20 Best Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection Doctors in Maryland, US

Daniel C. Brennan, M.D., joins the Johns Hopkins Division of Renal Medicine as professor of nephrology and medical director of the Comprehensive Transplant Center. Dr. Brennan’s areas of clinical expertise include transplant nephrology and renal disease. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Dr. Brennan was the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of renal Diseases at Washington University and the Director of Transplant Nephrology at the Washington University School of Medicine. He received his undergraduate degree from Cornell College and earned his medical degree at the University of Iowa, where he completed a residency in internal medicine. He then completed research and clinical nephrology fellowships at Brigham & Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Dr. Brennan holds professional memberships at various organizations, including the American College of Physicians, the International Society of Nephrology, the American Society of Nephrology, The Transplantation Society, the American Society of Transplant Physicians and the American Society of Clinical Investigation. Dr. Brennan is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection. His top areas of expertise are Chronic Kidney Disease, Cytomegalovirus Infection, Cytomegalic Inclusion Disease, Kidney Transplant, and Pancreas Transplant.

Dr. Benjamin Philosophe is the surgical director of the Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center. He also serves as the lead transplant surgeon at Sibley Memorial Hospital’s Hepatology Multidisciplinary Center. Dr. Philosophe was the first physician to perform robotic total right and total left hepatic resections in the state of Maryland. He has expanded the application of minimally invasive surgical approaches to other hepatobiliary diseases and has improved outcomes and reduced effects of surgery on these patients. Dr. Philosophe practices out of The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md., as well as Johns Hopkins Community Physician locations in Bethesda, Md. and Lutherville, Md. He is also affiliated with Suburban Hospital and Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center. Dr. Philosophe has a wide range of expertise, including cirrhosis; hepatic surgery, hepatitis, hepatobiliary conditions and surgeries; biliary tract surgery and hepatopancreatobiliary surgery; laparoscopic surgeries; vascular surgery; and robotic surgeries. He also has an expertise in various kinds of transplant surgeries, such as kidney, live donor liver, liver and pancreas, as well as various kinds of cancer, such as bile duct, gallbladder, hepatocellular, liver and pancreatic. Dr. Philosophe earned his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine. He completed a residency in general surgery at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, followed by a liver transplantation fellowship at the University of Toronto. Dr. Philosophe also completed a transplant surgery fellowship at the University of Maryland, where he went on to work as a professor of surgery and the head of liver transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery. Dr. Philosophe is a member of the American Board of Surgery, the Clinical Robotic Surgery Association, the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, the Transplantation Society and the International Liver Transplantation Society. He has earned a Super Doctors Award in general surgery from the Washington Post Magazine, as well as a Top Doctor Award for hepatobiliary surgery and transplant specialists from Baltimore Magazine. Dr. Philosophe has also been repeatedly named one of America’s Top Doctors and one of America’s Top Doctors for Cancer by Castle Connolly. Dr. Philosophe has contributed to numerous publications and presentations. His research interests include uncovering the mechanisms that contribute to transplant rejection and determining characteristics that can be used to better predict donor organ function. He has completed pioneering work in developing a scoring system called the Maryland Aggregate Pathology Index (MAPI), which is used by transplant surgeons worldwide to assess the likelihood of a deceased donor’s kidney function after transplantation. MAPI has increased the utilization of donor kidneys and saved many lives. Dr. Philosophe is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection. His top areas of expertise are Hepatitis, Liver Failure, End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), Liver Transplant, and Kidney Transplant.

Jonathan Bromberg is a Transplant Surgeon and a General Surgeon in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Bromberg is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection. His top areas of expertise are Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection, End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), Polycystic Kidney Disease, Kidney Transplant, and Pancreas Transplant. Dr. Bromberg is currently accepting new patients.

Abel Joy is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Joy is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection. His top areas of expertise are Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection, Acute Kidney Failure, Familial Neurocardiogenic Syncope, Pneumonia, and Endoscopy.

Dr. Russell Wesson is the Surgical Director of Kidney Transplantation and a liver and kidney transplant surgeon at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include Liver, Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Hepatobiliary surgery, Living Liver and Kidney donation and Transplantation for Colorectal Metastasis. Dr. Wesson completed his General Surgery Residency in 2016 at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was an intern at Johns Hopkins in 2009 after receiving his medical degree from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. After his residency, Dr. Wesson completed the American Society of Transplant Surgery accredited Fellowship in Abdominal Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery at Johns Hopkins. He continued on faculty within the division of transplant surgery. Dr. Wesson's academic and research focuses on basic and translational research within the context of liver and kidney transplantation and organ injury. He is active as a principle investigator on multiple clinical trials investigating novel immunosuppressive agents. He is a member of the American Society of Transplant Surgery as well as the American Transplantation Society. Dr. Wesson is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection. His top areas of expertise are Liver Failure, Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection, Hepatitis, Liver Transplant, and Kidney Transplant.

Elizabeth King is a general surgeon with a specialty in abdominal transplant, live donor surgery, and hepatopancreatobiliary surgery. She is part of the Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center. Dr. King is the surgical director of pediatric transplant and has a focus on liver, kidney, pancreas transplant in both children and adults. Dr. King earned her medical degree from University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and completed her residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Her fellowship in abdominal organ transplant was also completed at Johns Hopkins. In addition to her clinical experience, Dr. King obtained a Ph.D. in clinical investigations from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is published in the fields of transplant outcomes, live organ donation, and pediatric transplant. She is interested in improving health care engagement among both adult and pediatric transplant recipients. Dr. King is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection. Her top areas of expertise are Liver Failure, Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection, End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), Liver Transplant, and Simultaneous Pancreas Kidney Transplant.

Janet Tuttle is an Intensive Care Medicine provider in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Dr. Tuttle is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection. Her top areas of expertise are Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection, Liver Cancer, Hernia, Kidney Transplant, and Liver Transplant.

Thomas Scalea is an Intensive Care Medicine provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Scalea is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection. His top areas of expertise are Necrotizing Fasciitis, Delirium, Low Blood Pressure, Fasciotomy, and Splenectomy.

Chandra Bhati is a Transplant Surgeon and a General Surgeon in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Bhati is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection. His top areas of expertise are Liver Failure, Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection, Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Liver Transplant, and Kidney Transplant. Dr. Bhati is currently accepting new patients.

Eugene Schweitzer is a Vascular Surgeon and a Transplant Surgeon in Waldorf, Maryland. Dr. Schweitzer is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection. His top areas of expertise are End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection, Renovascular Hypertension, Kidney Transplant, and Simultaneous Pancreas Kidney Transplant. Dr. Schweitzer is currently accepting new patients.

Silke Niederhaus is a Transplant Surgeon and a General Surgeon in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Niederhaus is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection. Her top areas of expertise are End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection, Thrombophlebitis, Pancreas Transplant, and Kidney Transplant. Dr. Niederhaus is currently accepting new patients.

Sunny Fink is a General Surgeon in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Fink is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection. Her top areas of expertise are End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), Retroperitoneal Inflammation, Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection, Kidney Transplant, and Simultaneous Pancreas Kidney Transplant. Dr. Fink is currently accepting new patients.

Daniel Maluf is a Transplant Surgeon and a General Surgeon in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Maluf is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection. His top areas of expertise are Hepatic Ischemia, Hepatitis C, Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Liver Transplant, and Kidney Transplant. Dr. Maluf is currently accepting new patients.

Gregory Levickas is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Catonsville, Maryland. Dr. Levickas is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection. His top areas of expertise are Type 2 Diabetes (T2D), Hypertension, Familial Hypertension, and Glucocorticoid-Remediable Aldosteronism.

Raphael Meier is a Transplant Surgeon and a General Surgeon in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Meier is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection. His top areas of expertise are Liver Failure, Alcoholic Cirrhosis, Rhizarthrosis, Liver Transplant, and Kidney Transplant. Dr. Meier is currently accepting new patients.

Seblu Zera is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Zera is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection. His top areas of expertise are Gastrointestinal Fistula, Necrotizing Fasciitis, Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection, Myringotomy, and Gastrostomy.

Michael Phelan is a Urologist and a General Surgeon in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Phelan is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection. His top areas of expertise are Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC), WT1-Related Wilms Tumor Syndromes, Chromophobe Renal Cell Carcinoma, Nephrectomy, and Reconstructive Urology Surgery. Dr. Phelan is currently accepting new patients.

Shabbir Choudhry is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Choudhry is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection. His top areas of expertise are Necrosis, Peptic Ulcer, Acute Kidney Failure, Gastrostomy, and Endoscopy.

Rodolfo Fernandez is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Catonsville, Maryland. Dr. Fernandez is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection. His top areas of expertise are Enlarged Liver, Hypertensive Heart Disease, Syndrome of Inappropriate Antidiuretic Hormone Secretion (SIADH), and Pediatric Myocarditis.

Tahmina Ahmed is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Silver Spring, Maryland. Dr. Ahmed is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection. Her top areas of expertise are Radiation Enteritis, Vitamin D Deficiency, Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young, and Ringworm.