25 of the Best Transplant Surgeons Near Me in Long Island City, NY

Nabil Dagher is a Transplant Surgeon practicing medicine in New York, New York. Dr. Dagher is highly rated in 7 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Cirrhosis, Liver Failure, Hepatitis, Liver Transplant, and Kidney Transplant. Dr. Dagher is board certified in American Board Of Surgery. Dr. Dagher is currently accepting new patients.

Jean Emond is a General Surgeon and a Pediatric Surgeon practicing medicine in New York, New York. Dr. Emond is highly rated in 10 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Liver Cancer, Liver Failure, Pancreatic Cancer, Liver Transplant, and Hepatectomy. Dr. Emond is board certified in Surgery. Dr. Emond is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Mapara is Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center and the Director of the Blood and Marrow Transplantation (BMT)/Cell Therapy Program at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Mapara graduated from the University of Heidelberg Medical School/Germany, and received his post-graduate training in Internal Medicine and Hematology/Oncology at the Universities of Heidelberg and the University Medical Center Charite of the Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany. In addition, he completed a research fellowship at the Transplantation Biology Research Center of the Massachusetts General Hospital at the Harvard Medical School in Boston. As Assistant Professor of Medicine, he headed the Hematologic Intensive Care Unit and served as deputy director of the Stem Cell Transplantation unit at the University Medical Center Charite in Berlin, Germany. Before coming to Columbia, Dr. Mapara was Associate Professor of Medicine (with tenure) at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and served as the Director of the Adult Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Program. Dr. Mapara specializes in the care of patients with sickle cell disease and certain blood cancers (Multiple Myeloma, Amyloidosis) undergoing bone marrow transplantation and gene therapy.  His research is focused on developing novel approaches to make bone marrow transplantation and cell therapy safer for patients. Dr. Mapara is highly rated in 10 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Sickle Cell Disease, Congenital Hemolytic Anemia, Hemoglobinopathy, Bone Marrow Transplant, and Bone Marrow Aspiration. Dr. Mapara is board certified in Hematology and Medical Oncology. Dr. Mapara is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Ratner is Professor of Surgery and Director of Renal and Pancreatic Transplantation at Columbia University. Prior to joining the faculty at Columbia, Dr. Ratner was on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and served as the Chief of Solid Organ Transplantation at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Dr. Ratner was responsible for dramatic growth of the kidney transplant program at CUIMC. He also established the pancreas transplant program, and the Kidney Autotransplant Program. He introduced robotic surgery to our kidney transplant program. Access to organ transplantation has been Dr. Ratner's major academic interest. Dr. Ratner has been a leading innovator in transplantation for over two decades. In 1993, he performed the world's first dual renal transplant. In 1995 (with Dr. Louis Kavoussi) he performed the first laparoscopic donor nephrectomy, and set the stage for its widespread adoption, which resulted in a profound increase in living donor kidney transplantation. Dr. Ratner has made significant contributions in overcoming immunologic incompatibilities that prohibited transplantation. He devised the plasmapheresis/IVIg protocol for alloantibody desensitization in 1998. In 2001, Dr. Ratner orchestrated the second paired-kidney exchange in the U.S. Subsequently, he arranged the first paired kidney exchanges in both Pennsylvania and New York. More recently Dr. Ratner has been a leading proponent of including compatible donor/recipient pairs in kidney exchanges. And, his more contemporary work has looked at the organizational and regulatory barriers to access to care. All of these strategies have increased organ availability and access to transplantation. Additionally, he has made important contributions to improve living donor safety. For his work, Dr. Ratner has received numerous awards and honors. And, he has been invited to speak and operate at various venues around the world. Dr. Ratner has authored or co-authored over 240 peer-reviewed publications, and has been a federally funded investigator. His publications have been cited over 20,000 times. He served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the LiveOnNY (formerly the New York Organ Donor Network), and has served on numerous national committees including the Board of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN). He recently completed a term as the President of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, and previously served as that Society's Treasurer.Dr. Ratner originally hails from Brooklyn, NY. He received his undergraduate education at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He received his M.D. from Hahnemann University. His general surgery training was obtained at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. He completed a Fellowship in Transplantation Surgery and Immunology at Washington University. In 2011 Dr. Ratner completed a Master of Public Health with a focus on health care policy, administration and management. Dr. Ratner is highly rated in 6 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection, End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), Chylous Ascites, Kidney Transplant, and Pancreas Transplant. Dr. Ratner is board certified in Surgery. Dr. Ratner is currently accepting new patients.

Hillel Tobias is a Transplant Surgeon and a Gastroenterologist practicing medicine in New York, New York. Dr. Tobias is highly rated in 15 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Hepatitis, Hepatitis C, Visceromegaly, Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, and Liver Transplant. Dr. Tobias is board certified in American Board Of Internal Medicine and American Board Of Internal Medicine/Gastroenterology. Dr. Tobias is currently accepting new patients.

Samuel Sigal, MD, is Clinical Director, Hepatology and Professor, Clinical Medicine at Montefiore Einstein. A key member of the Liver Transplant Program at Montefiore Einstein, Dr. Sigal is a Transplant Hepatologist specializing in all areas of liver disease, including acute and chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis and its complications. Dr. Sigal is highly rated in 10 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Hepatitis, Hepatitis C, Visceromegaly, Enlarged Liver, and Liver Embolization. Dr. Sigal is currently accepting new patients.

Recently named as Medical Director of the Northwell Health Lung Transplantation Program, Dr. Aldo T. Iacono is a national thought leader in the field of lung transplantation and advanced lung disease. He He has made major contributions to clinical and scientific developments in lung transplantation. Dr. Iacono previously developed and led the lung transplantation programs at University of Pittsburgh and the University of Maryland. At Northwell Health he will bring together a multidisciplinary team to provide the best clinical care for patients with advanced lung disease. Dr. Iacono will also lead research in lung transplantation and will train future clinician-scientists in this area. In addition to lung transplantation, his clinical area of focus includes Advanced lung Disease Management, Immunosuppressive Drug Management and Interventional Bronchoscopy.Publications include:-A randomized trial of inhaled cyclosporine in lung transplant recipients. N Engl J Med 2006;-Donor Derived cell-free DNA as a composite marker of acute lung allograft dysfunction in Clinical Care; J Heart Transplant 2022-Capitalizing on the concept of local immune suppression by inhalation for lung transplant recipients Am J Transplant 2022;-Donor derived cell free DNA% is elevated with pathogens that are risk factors for acute and chronic allograft injury, J Heart Transplant 2021. Dr. Iacono is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Pulmonary Fibrosis, Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease (cGvHD), Lung Transplant, and Heart Transplant. Dr. Iacono is board certified in American Board Of Internal Medicine/Pulmonary Disease. Dr. Iacono is currently accepting new patients.

Alex Reyentovich is an Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist and a Cardiologist practicing medicine in New York, New York. Dr. Reyentovich is highly rated in 14 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Cardiac Amyloidosis, Heart Failure, Primary Localized Cutaneous Amyloidosis, Heart Transplant, and Lung Transplant. Dr. Reyentovich is board certified in American Board Of Internal Medicine. Dr. Reyentovich is currently accepting new patients.

Ran Reshef is a Transplant Surgeon practicing medicine in New York, New York. Dr. Reshef is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease (cGvHD), Relapsed Refractory Multiple Myeloma (RRMM), Smoldering Multiple Myeloma, Bone Marrow Transplant, and Bone Marrow Aspiration. Dr. Reshef is currently accepting new patients.

Douglas Gladstone is an Oncologist and a Transplant Surgeon practicing medicine in Lake Success, New York. Dr. Gladstone is highly rated in 25 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Hairy Cell Leukemia (HCL), Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL), Chronic B-Cell Leukemia (CBCL), Bone Marrow Transplant, and Bone Marrow Aspiration. Dr. Gladstone is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Gene Im is a transplant hepatologist and the Director of the Alcohol-associated Liver Disease Program at Columbia known as ADAPT (Advanced inter-Disciplinary Alcohol liver Program and Treatment), a patient-centered, integrated care and research program for patients with alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD). ADAPT is one of only a few integrated ALD clinics in the country.Dr. Im is an internationally recognized expert in ALD, including alcohol-associated hepatitis and liver transplantation based on his clinical focus and research achievements. He has co-authored several practice-changing articles, including the 2019 ALD Practice Guidance from AASLD, the 2024 MetALD Expert Position Statement, and the first experience of early liver transplantation for alcohol-associated hepatitis in North America.Currently, he is the Vice-Chair of the AASLD ALD Special Interest Group and serves on the Editorial Board for the journal Liver Transplantation. Dr. Im is also the founder of ALD-ALLY (Alcohol-associated Liver Disease patients deserve ALcohol LiteracY), an annual conference focused on actionable initiatives for advancing the science and care of patients with alcohol use disorder and ALD (www.ald-ally.com)Dr. Im is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation and Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases at Columbia University. Dr. Im is highly rated in 22 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Hepatitis, Alcoholic Cirrhosis, Liver Failure, Liver Transplant, and Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery. Dr. Im is board certified in Gastroenterology and Transplant Hepatology. Dr. Im is currently accepting new patients.

Joshua Sonett is a Thoracic Surgeon and a Transplant Surgeon practicing medicine in New York, New York. Dr. Sonett is highly rated in 21 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Lung Cancer, Lung Adenocarcinoma, Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC), Lung Transplant, and Thymectomy. Dr. Sonett is board certified in Thoracic And Cardiac Surgery. Dr. Sonett is currently accepting new patients.

Tomoaki Kato, MD, is a noted pioneer in multiple-organ transplantation, pediatric and adult liver transplantation. Dr. Kato is Vice Chair for Transplantation at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center and is a professor of surgery at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.Dr. Kato is known for unique and innovative surgeries for adults and children, including a six-organ transplant; a procedure called APOLT (auxiliary partial orthotopic liver transplantation) that resuscitates a failing liver by attaching a partial donor liver, making immunosuppressant drugs unnecessary and the first successful human partial bladder transplantation involving the transplant of two kidneys together with ureters connected to a patch of the donor bladder. In a highly publicized case, he led the first reported removal and re-implantation, or auto-transplantation, of six organs to excise a hard-to-reach abdominal tumor.Previously the director of pediatric liver and gastrointestinal transplant and professor of clinical surgery at the University of Miami School of Medicine, Dr. Kato received his medical degree from the Osaka University Medical School in Japan and received his residency training in surgery at Osaka University Hospital and Itami City Hospital in Hyogo, Japan. He completed a clinical fellowship in transplantation at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, in Miami, Florida, where he was subsequently appointed to the surgical faculty in 1997, and promoted to full professor in 2007. He served as a surgeon and senior leader of the liver and transplantation center at Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital, beginning in 1997, and at University of Miami Hospital (previously Cedars Medical Center), beginning in 2004. Dr. Kato is a member of numerous professional and honorary organizations, and the author or co-author of more than 180 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals.ResourcesFor more information, visit the Center for Liver Disease and TransplantationIf you need assistance in Chinese (Mandarin & Cantonese), please call 646-317-6325 or, visit the Columbia Liver Asian Outreach Office (English | Mandarin. Dr. Kato is highly rated in 9 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Fibrolamellar Carcinoma, Liver Cancer, Liver Failure, Liver Transplant, and Hepatectomy. Dr. Kato is currently accepting new patients.

Alvin Htut is a Transplant Surgeon and a Hepatologist practicing medicine in Howard Beach, New York. Dr. Htut is highly rated in 9 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Visceromegaly, Hepatitis, Cirrhosis, and Alcoholic Cirrhosis. Dr. Htut is board certified in American Board Of Internal Medicine/Transplant Hepatology, American Board Of Internal Medicine, and American Board Of Internal Medicine/Gastroenterology. Dr. Htut is currently accepting new patients.

Si Pham is a Thoracic Surgeon and a Transplant Surgeon practicing medicine in Manhasset, New York. Dr. Pham is highly rated in 6 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Heart Tumor, Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm, Atrial Myxoma, Heart Transplant, and Lung Transplant. Dr. Pham is board certified in American Board Of Surgery/Surgical Critical Care, American Board Of Thoracic Surgery, and American Board Of Surgery. Dr. Pham is currently accepting new patients.

Aaron Winnick is a Transplant Surgeon practicing medicine in Manhasset, New York. Dr. Winnick is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Gallbladder Disease, Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection, Fibrolamellar Carcinoma, Liver Transplant, and Kidney Transplant. Dr. Winnick is board certified in American Board Of Surgery. Dr. Winnick is currently accepting new patients.

Lawrence Lau is a Transplant Surgeon practicing medicine in Brooklyn, New York. Dr. Lau is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection, Fibrolamellar Carcinoma, Kidney Transplant, and Simultaneous Pancreas Kidney Transplant. Dr. Lau is currently accepting new patients.

Charissa Chang is a Transplant Surgeon practicing medicine in Hoboken, New Jersey. Dr. Chang is highly rated in 17 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Hepatitis, Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH), Fibrolamellar Carcinoma, Liver Transplant, and Endoscopy.

Hyung Kim is a Transplant Surgeon practicing medicine in New York, New York. Dr. Kim is highly rated in 14 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Hepatitis, Autoimmune Hepatitis, Fibrolamellar Carcinoma, Primary Biliary Cholangitis, and Endoscopy. Dr. Kim is currently accepting new patients.

Dr Jawad-Ahmad is a Transplant Surgeon practicing medicine in New York, New York. Dr. Jawad-Ahmad is highly rated in 14 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Cholangitis, Sclerosing Cholangitis, Fibrolamellar Carcinoma, Hepatitis, and Endoscopy. Dr. Jawad-Ahmad is currently accepting new patients.

Dr Priya-Grewal is a Transplant Surgeon practicing medicine in New York, New York. Dr. Priya-Grewal is highly rated in 14 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Hepatitis, Alcoholic Cirrhosis, Fibrolamellar Carcinoma, Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH), and Endoscopy. Dr. Priya-Grewal is currently accepting new patients.

Dr James-Crismale is a Transplant Surgeon practicing medicine in Long Island City, New York. Dr. James-Crismale is highly rated in 13 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Alcoholic Cirrhosis, Hepatitis, Visceromegaly, Enlarged Liver, and Endoscopy. Dr. James-Crismale is currently accepting new patients.

Dr Annmarie-Liapakis is a Transplant Surgeon practicing medicine in New York, New York. Dr. Annmarie-Liapakis is highly rated in 9 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Hepatitis, Hepatitis C, Visceromegaly, Alcoholic Cirrhosis, and Endoscopy.

Arun Jesudian is a Transplant Surgeon practicing medicine in New York, New York. Dr. Jesudian is highly rated in 8 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Liver Failure, Cirrhosis, Hepatitis, Liver Transplant, and Endoscopy. Dr. Jesudian is currently accepting new patients.

Ganesh Gunasekaran is a Transplant Surgeon practicing medicine in New York, New York. Dr. Gunasekaran is highly rated in 8 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Fibrolamellar Carcinoma, Gallbladder Adenocarcinoma, Ampullary Cancer, Hepatectomy, and Pancreatectomy.