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Our Experts
The broad range of clinical expertise represented on the transplant team and the extensive array of patient care services available at UCSF Medical Center enables the transplant team to tailor each patient's treatment to most effectively meet his or her needs.
UCSF Medical Center has a fully integrated medical/surgical and immunological team, enabling our physicians to coordinate all phases of patient care. For example, one important resource we offer is a dedicated in-house Immunogenetics and Transplantation Laboratory for tissue compatibility testing. This facility is one of the largest of its kind in the United States.
The pancreas-kidney transplant program also has full-time nurse transplant coordinator, Vel Garrick, who is responsible for assuring that each recipient's care, both in and out of the hospital, is effectively managed. The coordinator assists in evaluating potential transplant candidates, provides extensive patient education and maintains up-to-date medical histories. She also manages the pancreas-kidney waiting list, and assists in monitoring post-transplant patient status.
In addition, the pancreas-kidney transplant program includes exercise physiologists to educate patients on the importance of exercise and diet in the return to as close to "normal" functioning as possible. The primary goal of the exercise physiologists is to shorten each patient's hospital stay and minimize the overall length of recuperation.
The integral involvement of the exercise physiologists is further evidence of UCSF's multi-disciplinary approach to transplantation, an approach that enables the team to most effectively meet each patient's needs and to assure the best possible outcome.
Doctors
Dr. Deborah Adey, nephrologist Dr. Nancy Ascher, organ transplant surgeon and chair of Surgery Dr. Sandy Feng, transplant surgeon Dr. Christopher E. Freise, transplant surgeon Dr. Ryutaro Hirose, transplant surgeon Dr. Sang-Mo Kang, transplant surgeon Dr. Andrew M Posselt, bariatric and transplant surgeon Dr. John P. Roberts, chief of the UCSF Transplant Service Dr. Peter Stock, transplant surgeon Dr. Norah A. Terrault, liver specialist Dr. Stephen J. Tomlanovich, medical director, Kidney Transplant Service Dr. Flavio G. Vincenti, kidney and pancreas specialist
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