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Abbas Rana, MD, is dedicated to delivering high-quality, compassionate care to Houston and nearby communities. Abbas Rana specializes in Surgery and works at BCM Surgery - Transplant. To make an appointment, please call (832) 355-1400. To review all accepted insurance carriers, please visit: https://www.stlukeshealth.org/patients-visitors/patients/billing-insurance/insurances-accepted. Dr. Rana is highly rated in 13 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Liver Failure, Hepatoblastoma, Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection, Liver Transplant, and Kidney Transplant. Dr. Rana is currently accepting new patients.

Prasun K. Jalal, M.D is Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Abdominal Transplantation of the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery and in the Department of Medicine, Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Jalal is board certified in gastroenterology, internal medicine and transplant hepatology. Dr. Jalal earned his medical degree from Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India. His extensive training includes training in gastroenterology and hepatology at St. James Hospital in Leeds, England. He completed a fellowship in gastroenterology at Long Island Jewish Medical Center-Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York and in transplant hepatology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York. Dr. Jalal's clinical interests include viral hepatitis, liver transplant, liver cancer and autoimmune hepatitis. Dr. Jalal is highly rated in 26 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Hepatitis, Esophageal Varices, Hepatitis A, Liver Transplant, and Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery. Dr. Jalal is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Victor Machicao earned his medical degree in 1993 from the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia Medical School in Lima (Peru). He completed his Internal Medicine Residency at Cleveland Clinic Foundation, followed by both a Gastroenterology Fellowship and a Hepatology and Liver Transplantation Fellowship at Mayo Clinic, where he graduated as an Instructor in Medicine. Upon completion of his training he became Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Florida in Gainesville from 2003 to 2009. He joined our Gastroenterology Division in 2009. He is currently Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Medical Director of Memorial Hermann Liver Transplant Program. Dr. Machicao is Board Certified in Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Liver Transplantation by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Dr Machicao has been active in various national and regional gastroenterology societies. He has been an active member since graduation of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease (AASLD), and has served in the Executive Committee at the Texas Transplantation Society where he been Liver Councilor since 2011. Dr Machicao is also an Active Member of the United Network for Organ Sharing, serving at the Region 4 Liver Review Board. He heads the weekly Hepatobiliary Tumor Board at Memorial Hermann Hospital and is a member of the Hepatocellular Carcinoma Interdisciplinary Research group at the Texas Medical Center. Dr. Machicao has more than 20 publications at national and international peer-reviewed Journals and book chapters in the field of Hepatology and Liver Transplantation. His areas of expertise include hepatocellular carcinoma, complications of cirrhosis particularly cirrhotic cardiomyopathy, and the medical management of the liver transplant recipient, with a special interest in the management of viral hepatitis after solid organ transplantation. Dr Machicao has been a dedicated teacher during his career, and has been the coordinator of the Inpatient Hepatology Service at Memorial Hermann Hospital/Texas Medical Center supervising the training of our Fellows, Resident and Medical Students. He has been the recipient of both the Excellence in Teaching Award while at the University of Florida in 2008, and the Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award, at the University of Texas HSC at Houston in 2011, attesting his commitment to Education. Dr. Machicao is highly rated in 18 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Hepatitis, Alcoholic Cirrhosis, Visceromegaly, Liver Transplant, and Endoscopy. Dr. Machicao is currently accepting new patients.