Program Overview
The fellowship in Transplant Surgery is a two-year program.
Training takes place entirely at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, one of the oldest and largest medical institutions in the United States.
The medical center is the teaching hospital for the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Consequently, fellows will interact with house officers of multiple specialties as well as with medical students.
The current facility, built in 1989, is an 871-bed hospital with 55 surgical ICU beds and 39 operating rooms.
Physically connected, but a separate edifice, the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian (MSCHONY), which opened in 2003, is a state-of-the art facility with 147 beds, 78 ICU beds and 8 operating rooms providing medical and surgical care for children.
The proximity of the medical school offers easy access to library and research facilities.
Each year, approximately 250 kidney transplants and 150 liver transplants are performed at the medical center.
The hospital functions as a tertiary referral center and an acute care facility for a large inner city population, and consequently the case mix is skewed towards unusual and complex problems.
Dr. Benjamin Samstein, Assistant Professor of Surgery, is the Transplant Surgery Fellowship Program Director.
Dr. James Guarrera, Assistant Professor of Surgery, serves as Associate Program Director.
The liver transplant program is one of the busiest programs in the country. Under the leadership of Dr. Jean Emond, Thomas S. Zimmer Professor of Surgery, the program has an international reputation for living donor liver transplant and hepatobiliary surgery.
Dr. Emond and Dr. Christoph Broelsch performed the first living donated liver transplant in 1989.
Since then Dr. Emond has been a leader in living donated liver transplantation and is a principal investigator in the NIH-sponsored A2ALL study, Adult to Adult Living Liver Transplant.
The liver program was built from the inception as a multidisciplinary unit.
The program treats patients with a wide variety of liver problems and as a result, the fellows have the opportunity for significant volume of hepatobiliary surgery.
Approximately 100 hepatobiliary operations are performed each year by surgical staff including living donor hepatectomies and laparoscopic liver resections.
The kidney arm of the program offers an equally broad experience.
Under the guidance of Lloyd Ratner, Professor of Surgery, the Renal and Pancreas Transplant Program exposes the fellows to a wide range of kidney transplants.
We perform approximately 125 live donor compatible transplants and approximately 125 deceased donor renal transplants including 2:1 transplants, pediatric donors and ECD donors.
We have one of the busiest ABO and positive cross match renal transplant programs in the country.
We also perform paired donor exchanges, or swaps.
The Pancreas Transplant program received UNOS approval January 2008, and we anticipate a robust program starting in 2008.
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