Surgeons

Randall Sung, M.D.

Surgical Director, Kidney Transplant
Surgical Director, Pancreas Transplant
Assistant Professor, General Surgery

Dr. Randall Sung is an Assistant Professor in the Section of General Surgery, Division of Transplantation Surgery. Dr. Sung graduated with a degree in Biochemical Science from Harvard University in 1985. He received his medical degree and completed his surgical residency at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, in New York City. In 1997, following the completion of his surgical residency, Dr. Sung began a two year fellowship in Transplant Surgery at the University of Michigan Medical Center. He subsequently joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. In 2002, Dr. Sung returned to the University of Michigan as an Assistant Professor in the Transplant Surgery Division.

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Darrell A. Campbell, Jr., M.D.

Henry King Ransom Professor of Surgery
Chief of Clinical Affairs
Professor, General Surgery

Dr. Campbell received his BS degree in zoology from Michigan State University in 1968, and graduated with distinction from George Washington University, receiving an MD degree in 1972. Subsequently, Dr. Campbell received his General Surgery training at the University of Michigan Medical School from 1972 through 1979. During this period, he spent two years as an investigator in the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, working in the laboratory of Ronald B. Herberman, Chief of Immunodiagnostics. Following General Surgery training, Dr. Campbell began his special interest in transplantation, a field which he has pursued and in which he continues to be actively involved. Dr. Campbell spent six months on sabbatical with Professor Sir Roy Calne learning the intricacies of liver transplantation in Cambridge, England, in 1986.

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Michael J. Englesbe, M.D.

Assistant Professor, General Surgery

Michael J. Englesbe, MD, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Transplant Surgery. Dr. Englesbe received his undergraduate degree at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut in 1993. He went on to obtain his medical degree in 1997 from UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center and completed his general surgery residency at the University of Michigan Health System in 2004. From 2000 to 2002, Dr. Englesbe did a research fellowship in vascular biology at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. Dr. Englesbe completed a two year felloship in transplant surgery at the University of Michigan in June of 2006. In July 2006, he joined the faculty in the same Transplant Division.

Dr. Englesbe's clinical interests focus on liver transplantation. His research interests are intimal hyperplasia and transfusions.

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Christie Gooden, M.D.

Clinical Lecturer
Transplant Fellow, General Surgery

Christie W. Gooden, M.D., is a Clinical Lecturer/Fellow in Division of Transplant Surgery, Section of General Surgery. Dr. Gooden received her undergraduate degree in biology from Xavier University of Louisiana in 1998 and went on to receive a dual medical degree and masters of public health in health systems management from Tulane University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans in 2002. Dr. Gooden completed her residency in general surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center in 2009. During her residency she was a NIH scholar from 2005-2007, working in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Cardiovascular Transplant Laboratory.

Dr. Gooden's clinical interests include abdominal transplant surgery. Her research interests include extracorporeal photopheresis and long term sequelae of immunosuppression.

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David Heidt, M.D.

Clinical Lecturer
Transplant Fellow, General Surgery

David Heidt, M.D., is a Clinical Lecturer/Fellow in the Division of Transplant Surgery at the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Dr. Heidt received his medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, in 2001, and went on to complete his General Surgery residency at the University of Michigan Health System in June of 2008. He was a National Institute of Health National Research Service Award fellow from 2004 to 2006, during which time he participated in research which for the first time identified pancreatic cancer stem cells. He has also completed a fellowship in surgical critical care. Dr. Heidt joined the faculty of the Section of General Surgery at the University of Michigan Health System in July of 2008. Dr. Heidt's clinical interests focus on the transplantation of the liver, kidney, and pancreas as well as on hepatobiliary surgery and surgical oncology. His research interests include investigation of the patterns of utilization and outcomes of kidney and liver transplantation and a better understanding of the molecular basis for the initiation of malignancy in pancreatic cancer as well as primary liver cancers.

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John C. Magee, M.D.

Surgical Director, Pediatric Abdominal Transplant
Associate Professor, General Surgery

Dr. John Magee is an Associate Professor in the Section of General Surgery, Division of Transplantation. Dr. Magee received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College. He completed his General Surgery residency at the University of Michigan in 1996. During his residency, Dr. Magee spent three years as a research fellow in the Department of Surgery at Duke University Medical Center. He also completed the Post Doctoral Research Training Program at the University of Michigan. Following general surgery training, he completed a two year multi-organ transplant surgery fellowship at the University of Michigan. He joined the faculty in 1998.

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Robert M. Merion, M.D.

Professor, General Surgery

Dr. Robert Merion is a Professor of Surgery in the Division of Transplantation. Dr. Merion served for ten years as the Chief of the Division and as Director of the University of Michigan Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program before assuming his current responsibilities as Clinical Transplant Director for the federally funded Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR). Dr. Merion graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1979 and completed a residency training program in general surgery in the Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan in 1986. During his residency, he spent two years with Sir Roy Y. Calne, FRS, in Cambridge, England, where he studied transplantation immunology and completed a clinical fellowship in abdominal organ transplantation. Dr. Merion has been a member of the faculty of the Department of Surgery since 1986. He also serves as the director of the University of Michigan's American Society of Transplant Surgeons-approved fellowship training program in kidney, pancreas, and liver transplantation.

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Shawn J. Pelletier, M.D.

Assistant Professor, General Surgery
Surgical Director, Liver Transplant

Shawn J. Pelletier, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation Surgery at the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor, Michigan.   Dr. Pelletier received his medical degree from Hahnemann University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1996.   He completed his General Surgery residency in 2003, at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center in Charlottesville, Virginia.   Dr. Pelletier went on to complete a two year fellowship in Transplant Surgery at the University of Michigan Health System, and joined the faculty in July of 2005.

Dr. Pelletier's clinical interests focus on all aspects of abdominal organ transplantation.   His research interests focus on surgical infections and the recurrence of viral hepatitis in transplant patients.

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Jeffrey D. Punch, M.D.

Director, Transplant Center
Associate Professor, General Surgery

Dr. Jeffrey Punch is an Associate Professor and Chief of the Division of Transplantation in the Section of General Surgery. Dr. Punch received his medical degree from the University of Michigan. During his residency he did a Research Fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. Rile Rees at the Ann Arbor Veteran's Hospital studying tissue injury associated with ischemia-reperfusion. Upon completion of his general surgery residency at the University of Michigan, Dr. Punch was appointed as the University of Michigan Transplantation Fellow and Lecturer in Surgery. He completed this two year multi-organ transplantation fellowship in which he was trained to perform kidney, pancreas, and liver transplant procedures. During this time he also completed the University of Michigan Molecular Biology Course. Following the completion of his training, he was certified by the Organ Procurement Organization of Michigan to perform kidney, pancreas, and liver retrieval procedures. He also was board certified in both General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care.

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Chris Sonnenday, M.D.

Assistant Professor, General Surgery

Christopher Sonnenday, M.D., M.H.S., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery at the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Dr. Sonnenday received his medical degree from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee in 1997, and went on to complete his General Surgery residency at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland in June of 2005. While a research fellow in transplantation from 2000 to 2003, he completed a Masters of Health Sciences in Clinical Investigation at the Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2003. After completion of his residency, Dr. Sonnenday continued on at Johns Hopkins as a Fellow in Surgical Oncology and Instructor of Surgery until he joined the faculty of the Section of General Surgery at the University of Michigan Health System in July of 2006. He completed a fellowship in abdominal transplant surgery in June of 2008.

Dr. Sonnenday's clinical interests focus on hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, and transplantation of the liver, kidney, and pancreas.

His research interests include investigation of the patterns of utilization and outcomes of hepatobiliary surgery and liver transplantation, geographic and racial disparities in the utilization of and access to solid organ transplantation, treatment of locally advanced pancreatic cancer, and the multidisciplinary treatment of hepatobiliary malignancies.

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Jeremiah G. Turcotte, M.D.

Professor Emeritus, General Surgery

Dr. Jeremiah Turcotte is a Professor Emeritus of Surgery in the Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School. Within the Department he is a member of the Division of Transplant Surgery in the Section of General Surgery. Dr. Turcotte obtained his medical degree from the University of Michigan in 1957 and completed his residency in general surgery at Michigan in 1963. He was certified in General Surgery in 1964 and Surgical Critical Care in 1986. While active he served as Chairman of the Department of Surgery, Head of the Section of General Surgery, Director of the Liver Transplant Center and Liver Transplant Program and Chairman of the Professional Fee Management Policy Committee. He was a Director of the American Board of Surgery and a member of the Residency Review Committee. On December 31, 2000 Dr. Turcotte retired from active faculty status and was appointed Professor Emeritus. He remains active in education, clinical research and regional and national organizations.

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Theodore H. Welling III, M.D.

Assistant Professor, General Surgery

Theodore H. Welling, III, M.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Section of General Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery. Dr. Welling received his medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1999 and went on to complete his General Surgery residency in 2005. Dr. Welling then completed a two year fellowship in Transplant Surgery at the University of Michigan Health System, and joined the faculty in July 2007.

Dr. Welling's clinical interests are in liver transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery. His research interests are in the fields of liver tumor immunology, therapy of hepatic malignancy, and liver transplant outcomes.

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Nephrologists (for Adult Patients)

Milagros D. Samaniego, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.S.N.

Medical Director, Kidney and Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Programs
Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology

Milagros (Millie) D. Samaniego, M.D., is an Associate Professor in the Division of Nephrology in the Department of Internal Medicine. Dr. Samaniego joined the faculty at the University of Michigan as the Medical Director of the Kidney and Simultaneous Kidney/Pancreas programs in February 2009. Dr. Samaniego received her medical degree from the University of Panama, School of Medicine in the Republic of Panama. She completed her post graduate training at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas and at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. She is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Her clinical interests include antibody-mediated rejection, management of highly sensitized and high risk kidney transplant recipients, desensitization protocols and ABO incompatible transplantation.

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Pavan Chopra, M.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor, Nephrology

Dr. Pavan Chopra received his medical degree in 1999 from Rush Medical College of Rush University in Chicago, Illinois. He completed his Internal Medicine residency and was a chief resident at Rush Presbyterian/St. Luke's in Chicago, Illinois. He completed his nephrology fellowship and transplantation fellowship at the University of Michigan Medical Center. He joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 2006. His clinical interests include renal transplant biopsies and post transplant malignancies.

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Diane M. Cibrik, M.D.

Medical Director
Pancreas Transplant Program
Associate Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
Division of Nephrology

Dr. Diane Cibrik received her medical degree from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She completed her internal medicine residency at the University Hospitals of Cleveland in Cleveland, Ohio. She completed her nephrology fellowship at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She joined the faculty at the University of Michigan and subsequently completed her M.S. at the University of Michigan. Her clinical interests are renal transplant outcomes.

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Fu-Lung Luan, M.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor, Nephrology

Dr. Fu-Lung Luan received his medical degree from the University of Rome in Rome, Italy. He completed his rheumatology residency at the University of Rome in Rome, Italy and his internal medicine residency at Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. He completed his nephrology fellowship and transplantation fellowships at New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York, New York. He joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 2002. His clinical interests include renal and pancreas transplantation and transplant immunology. Dr. Luan is currently serving as the Interim Medical Director of the Adult Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program.

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Alan B. Leichtman, M.D.

Associate Professor, Nephrology

Dr. Alan Leichtman received his medical degree from Michigan State University. He completed his residency at Providence Hospital in Southfield, Michigan, where he also served as Chief Medicine Resident. He completed his nephrology fellowship at Beth Israel Hospital through Harvard Medical School and continued on there to explore his research interests of clinical pharmacology of immunosuppressant medications. His clinical interests include drug induced liver disease, viral hepatitis, and acute liver failure. Subsequently, he joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1995.

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Silas Norman, M.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor, Nephrology

Dr. Silas Norman received his medical degree from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He completed his internal medicine residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He completed his fellowships in nephrology and transplant nephrology at the University of Michigan. His clinical interests include clinical epidemiology and transplant allocation. He joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 2003.

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Akinlolu Ojo, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Medicine and
Florence E. Bingham Research Professor of Nephrology

Dr. Akinlolu Ojo received his medical degree from the University of Lagos, College of Medicine. He completed his residency at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky where he also served as Chief Resident. He completed his MPH at the Center for International Health at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, Alabama. He completed his nephrology fellowship and Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, where he joined the faculty in 1995. His clinical interests include multi-center clinical trials of hypertension, ESRD, and access to kidney transplantation and allograft survival with emphasis on minority patients with ESRD and CKD.

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Vahakn B. Shahinian, M.D., M.S.

Assistant Professor

Dr. Vahakn Shahinian received his medical degree from the University of Toronto, Canada and his masters of science at University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas. He completed his internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. He completed his nephrology fellowship at University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas and his renal transplant fellowship at London Health Sciences Centre, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. His clinical interests include patterns and health outcomes of gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist use for the treatment of prostate cancer using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End-Results (SEER)-Medicare linked registry. He joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 2006.

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Pharmacists

Jeong Mi Park, M.S., PharmD, BCPS

Clinical Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy

Dr. Jeong Mi (Jamie) Park completed her education as a PharmD at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. She continued her post-doctoral training as a transplant immunology fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington and, then, her pharmacy practice residency at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. In 2002 Dr. Park joined the faculty of the University of Michigan.

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Linda J. Stuckey, PharmD

Clinical Pharmacist

Dr. Linda Stuckey received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She then went on to complete a pharmacy practice residency followed by a specialty residency in critical care/solid organ transplant at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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