25 of the Best Transplant Surgeons Near Me in Vero Beach, FL

David Baran is a Transplant Surgeon practicing medicine in Weston, Florida. Dr. Baran is highly rated in 17 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Cardiogenic Shock, Heart Failure, Heart Attack, Heart Transplant, and Patent Foramen Ovale Repair. Dr. Baran is board certified in American Board Of Internal Medicine, 2010.

Antonio Pinna is a Transplant Surgeon practicing medicine in Weston, Florida. He has been practicing medicine for over 52 years. Dr. Pinna is highly rated in 16 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Liver Failure, Liver Cancer, Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction, Liver Transplant, and Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery.

Dr. Jimenez Jimenez, who joined the Division of Transplantation and Cell Therapy in 2016, leads Sylvesters Mismatched Allogeneic Transplant Program. His clinical and research work is dedicated to improving access to Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation (HCT) for ethnically diverse patients who lack suitable donors. A national leader in mismatched HCT, Dr. Jimenez chairs multiple trials and played a key role in establishing Sylvesters program. He also focuses on strategies to reduce relapse risk in patients with acute leukemias and myeloid neoplasms post-transplant. Dr. Jimenez is highly rated in 9 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia without Maturation, Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease (cGvHD), Bone Marrow Transplant, and Bone Graft. Dr. Jimenez is currently accepting new patients.

Denise Pereira is a Hematologist Oncology specialist and a Transplant Surgeon practicing medicine in Plantation, Florida. Dr. Pereira is highly rated in 9 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Multiple Myeloma, Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia without Maturation, Relapsed Refractory Multiple Myeloma (RRMM), and Bone Marrow Transplant. Dr. Pereira is currently accepting new patients.

Christopher O'brien is a Transplant Surgeon practicing medicine in Weston, Florida. Dr. O'brien is highly rated in 25 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Visceromegaly, Hepatitis, Enlarged Liver, Alcoholic Cirrhosis, and Endoscopy.

Dr. David Goldberg is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Digestive Health and Liver Diseases and Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Dr. Goldberg received his medical degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, followed by residency in internal medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University Medical Center. He then completed fellowships in gastroenterology and then transplant hepatology at the University of Pennsylvania, after which he was a faculty member from 2013-2019 before joining the faculty at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in 2019. Dr. Goldberg is highly rated in 14 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Liver Failure, Hepatitis C, Hepatitis, Liver Transplant, and Hepatectomy. Dr. Goldberg is currently accepting new patients.

Sula Mazimba is a Transplant Surgeon practicing medicine in Orlando, Florida. Dr. Mazimba is highly rated in 13 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Heart Failure, Pulmonary Hypertension, Pulmonary Edema, Heart Transplant, and Aortic Valve Replacement.

Nina Rivera is a Transplant Surgeon practicing medicine in Weston, Florida. Dr. Rivera is highly rated in 11 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Cardiogenic Shock, Heart Failure, Pulmonary Edema, Cardiomyopathy, and Heart Transplant. Dr. Rivera is board certified in American Osteopathic Board Of Internal Medicine, 2018.

Dr. Green is a Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Transplantation and Cellular Therapy at the University of Miami. He also serves as the Assistant Director of Translational Research for the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Green has over 20 years of experience treating patients with blood cancers while maintaining a specialized focus on multiple myeloma, B cell lymphoma, stem cell transplant and immunotherapy. His research involves harnessing the power of the immune system to directly target cancer cells while protecting healthy cells from injury. In his laboratory, he has developed numerous immunotherapy approaches for first-in-human clinical trials. Dr. Green is highly rated in 8 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Multiple Myeloma, Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL), Gastrostomy, and Tissue Biopsy.

Jiro Kusakabe is a Transplant Surgeon practicing medicine in Weston, Florida. Dr. Kusakabe is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Liver Failure, Hepatic Ischemia, Liver Cancer, Liver Transplant, and Hepatectomy.

Andrew Keaveny is a Transplant Surgeon practicing medicine in Jacksonville, Florida. Dr. Keaveny is highly rated in 23 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Liver Failure, Hepatitis, Visceromegaly, Liver Transplant, and Hernia Surgery.

Surakit Pungpapong is a Transplant Surgeon practicing medicine in Jacksonville, Florida. Dr. Pungpapong is highly rated in 15 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Hepatitis, Liver Failure, Hepatitis C, Liver Transplant, and Hernia Surgery.

Hani Wadei is a Transplant Surgeon practicing medicine in Jacksonville, Florida. Dr. Wadei is highly rated in 14 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Hepatorenal Syndrome, Acute Tubular Necrosis, Chronic Kidney Disease, Kidney Transplant, and Simultaneous Pancreas Kidney Transplant.

Ali Zarrinpar is a Transplant Surgeon practicing medicine in Daytona Beach, Florida. Dr. Zarrinpar is highly rated in 11 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Hepatitis, Visceromegaly, Enlarged Liver, Liver Transplant, and Kidney Transplant.

James Eason is a Transplant Surgeon practicing medicine in Fort Myers, Florida. Dr. Eason is highly rated in 10 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Hepatitis, Hepatic Ischemia, Liver Failure, Liver Transplant, and Kidney Transplant. Dr. Eason is currently accepting new patients.

Cynthia Gries is a Transplant Surgeon practicing medicine in Orlando, Florida. Dr. Gries is highly rated in 7 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Pulmonary Fibrosis, Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis, Lung Transplant, and Advanced Bronchoscopy.

Maher Baz is a Transplant Surgeon practicing medicine in Jacksonville, Florida. Dr. Baz is highly rated in 6 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Bronchiolitis Obliterans, Pulmonary Fibrosis, Acute Interstitial Pneumonia, Lung Transplant, and Gastrostomy.

Dr. Lekakis is a Professor of Medicine who joined the University of Miami in 2010 and became an attending physician for Hemotology/Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation in 2012. He has since started the CAR-T trials, performed the first CAR-T for solid tumors, and transplanted adult sickle cell disease patients. Dr. Lekakis is a member of the USA CAR-T Consortium and several CIBMTR committees including CAR-T, Lymphoma, Leukemia, and GVHD. His main interests are CAR-T and GVHD. Dr. Lekakis is highly rated in 18 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease (cGvHD), Graft Versus Host Disease (GvHD), Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL), and Bone Marrow Transplant. Dr. Lekakis is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Levy is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Digestive Health and Liver Diseases and is the Associate Director of the Schiff Center for Liver Diseases at the University of Miami. She was awarded the Arthur Hertz Endowed Chair in Liver Diseases. Dr. Levys clinical research program focuses on autoimmune and cholestatic liver diseases, and in the study of porphyrias. She is particularly interested in clinical trial development and conduct. Dr. Levy is a member of the steering committees for the International Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis Study group (IPSCSG), the Global PBC study group and the Cholestatic and Autoimmune Liver Diseases SIG in AASLD and serves as an advisor for several patient support groups and foundations. She is currently the chair elect for the AASLD Practice Guidelines Committee. Dr Levys expertise is recognized internationally. Dr. Levy received her M.D. from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She completed house staff training both at her home University and subsequently at University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, in Miami, FL. Dr. Levy completed her 3-year Gastroenterology Fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and a 1-year Transplant Hepatology Fellowship at University of Florida, in Gainesville, FL. Dr. Levy is highly rated in 17 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Primary Biliary Cholangitis, Reynolds Syndrome, Visceromegaly, and Hepatitis. Dr. Levy is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Beitinjaneh is a nationally recognized clinical research investigator with over a decade of experience in managing aggressive hematologic malignancies, particularly through cellular therapy and stem cell transplantation. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts and has led numerous novel interventional clinical trials, funded by both industry and federal agencies. Dr. Beitinjaneh currently leads the Transplant, Cellular & Viral Therapy Site Disease Group at the NCI-designated Sylvester Cancer Center at the University of Miami (UM) and serves as the BMT CTN Network institutional PI.Â. Dr. Beitinjaneh is highly rated in 15 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL), Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), Bone Marrow Transplant, and Bone Graft. Dr. Beitinjaneh is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Juan Carlos Varela is a board-certified and fellowship-trained physician specializing in hematology and oncology with the Bone Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapy program at the Orlando Health Cancer Institute. He previously served as medical director of a Blood and Marrow Transplant/Cellular Therapy program in Orlando and most recently was medical director for Outpatient Services and led the Acute Leukemia and Bone Marrow Transplant Program in the Division of Hematological Malignancies in Boston. His services include: Bone marrow transplants (autologous, allogeneic, cord blood and haploidentical) Bispecific antibodies CAR-T cell therapy Acute leukemia myelodysplastic syndrome treatment Cellular therapy lab (on-site collection facility and cell manipulation) Extracorporeal photopheresis for the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, graft versus host disease and lung transplant rejection Clinical trials Dr. Varela takes his patients' specific goals and needs into account in order to treat each patient as an individual, rather than taking a blanket approach to treating the disease. Dr. Varela's Training Dr. Varela earned his medical degree and doctorate from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. He completed an internal medicine residency and hematology fellowship at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. About Dr. Varela Dr. Varela is certified in hematology and internal medicine with the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is a member of the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy and American Society of Hematology. Dr. Varela is a physician scientist and has been the principal investigator in dozens of clinical trials for cellular therapy, hematologic malignancies and bone marrow transplants. He has successfully translated novel immunotherapeutic approaches from the bench to the bedside and has been the leader in multiple first-in-human studies of novel T-cell therapies in hematologic malignancies. His research has been published extensively in peer-reviewed publications on topics including hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, acute myelogenous leukemia and adoptive T cell immunotherapy. Outside of work, Dr. Varela enjoys music, sports and spending time with his family. He is fluent in English and Spanish. Dr. Varela is highly rated in 11 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia with Maturation, Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia without Maturation, Bone Marrow Transplant, and Bone Marrow Aspiration. Dr. Varela is board certified in American Board Of Internal Medicine - Hematology and American Board Of Internal Medicine - Internal Medicine.

Dr. Yasser Khaled is the medical director of the bone marrow transplant and cellular therapy program at the Orlando Health Cancer Institute. He is board-certified in hematology and specializes in cellular therapy and blood and bone marrow transplantation. His areas of expertise include: Bone marrow transplants (autologous, allogeneic, cord blood and haploidentical) Bispecific antibodies CAR-T cell therapy Acute leukemia/myelodysplastic syndrome treatment Cellular therapy lab (on-site collection facility and cell manipulation) Extracorporeal photopheresis for the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, graft versus host disease and lung transplant rejection Clinical trials Dr. Khaled's Training Dr. Khaled received his medical training at Cairo University School of Medicine in Egypt. He completed a residency in internal medicine at Woodhull Medical Center in New York. Dr. Khaled also completed fellowships in medical oncology at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, in hematology at New York Medical College in Valhalla and in blood and bone marrow transplantation at the University of Texas / MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. About Dr. Khaled Dr. Khaled is board-certified in hematology by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Before joining Orlando Health, Dr. Khaled served as medical director of the Blood and Marrow Transplant Center at Methodist Le Bonheur Health Care in Memphis. In less than four years, he led the program to a top 10 percent ranking in survival outcomes, according to the National Marrow Donor Program, an independent agency that reviews the outcomes of bone marrow transplant centers in the United States. He also brought the first cellular immune therapy (CAR-T cell) for the treatment of lymphoma and acute leukemia to Memphis and the Mid-South, an achievement that earned him an award as a Memphis Health Care Hero in 2019. Dr. Khaled has an established research career in stem cell transplantation as principal investigator and co-investigator for multiple industry- and NIH-funded protocols. He also has published extensively in the field of stem cell transplantation with dozens of articles and abstracts. Dr. Khaled is highly rated in 11 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Multiple Myeloma, Graft Versus Host Disease (GvHD), Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), Bone Marrow Transplant, and Bone Marrow Aspiration. Dr. Khaled is board certified in American Board Of Internal Medicine - Hematology.

Omar Wever is a Transplant Surgeon practicing medicine in Miami, Florida. Dr. Wever is highly rated in 8 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, Subvalvular Aortic Stenosis, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM), and Sengers Syndrome. Dr. Wever is board certified in American Board Of Internal Medicine. Dr. Wever is currently accepting new patients.

Trent Wang is a Hematologist Oncology specialist and a Transplant Surgeon practicing medicine in Miami, Florida. Dr. Wang is highly rated in 7 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Graft Versus Host Disease (GvHD), Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia without Maturation, Bone Marrow Transplant, and Bone Graft. Dr. Wang is currently accepting new patients.

Akin Tekin is a Transplant Surgeon practicing medicine in Miami, Florida. Dr. Tekin is highly rated in 5 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Hepatoblastoma, Liver Failure, Liver Cancer, Liver Transplant, and Thrombectomy. Dr. Tekin is currently accepting new patients.