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Our Expert Team / Liver Transplant Team

Meet our Liver Transplant team members below:  

Adult Liver Transplant Physicians / Surgeons
Pediatric Liver Transplant Physicians / Surgeons
Liver Transplant Coordinators

Learn more about Liver Transplantation at UCLA.

  

Adult Liver Transplant Team 

 

Surgical

   

Medical

Dr. Ronald Busuttil Ronald Busuttil, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Professor and Executive Chairman of Surgery, School of Medicine
Chief, Division of Liver and Pancreas Transplantation University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine
  Dr. Francisco Antonio Durazo Francisco Antonio Durazo, M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Division of Digestive Diseases and the Division of Liver and Pancreas Transplantation 
         
Dr. Douglas Farmer Douglas Farmer, M.D.
Director, Intestinal Transplant Program
Medical Director, Pediatric Liver Transplant Program
  Dr. Leonard Goldstein Leonard Goldstein, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine 
         
Dr. Gerald S. Lipshutz Gerald S. Lipshutz, M.D., M.S.
Surgical Director,
Pancreas Transplant Program
  Dr. Steven-Huy Han Steven-Huy Han, M.D.
Director, Hepatology Clinical Research Center 
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine & Surgery
 
         
Dr. John Duffy John Duffy, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery 
  Dr. Amy McClune Amy McClune, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine and Surgery  
         
Dr. Johnny Hong  Johnny Hong, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
  Dr. Sammy Saab Sammy Saab, M.D., M.P.H., A.G.A.F.
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, 
Division of Digestive Diseases and the Division of Liver and Pancreas Transplantation  
         
Hasan Yersiz, M.D.
Professor of Surgery
 

Curtis Holt, Pharm.D.
Clinical Professor of Surgery
Director of Clinical Research      Director of UCLA Dumont Transplant Pharmacokinetics Laboratory

 

         
         
         

Pediatric Liver Transplant Team 

 

Surgical

   

Medical

Dr. Ronald Busuttil Ronald Busuttil, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Professor and Executive Chairman of Surgery, School of Medicine
Chief, Division of Liver and Pancreas Transplantation University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine
Dumont Chair in Transplantation Surgery University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine
  Dr. Suzanne McDiarmid Suzanne McDiarmid, M.D.
Director, Pediatric Liver Transplant Program
Professor of Pediatric & Surgery
         
Dr. Douglas Farmer Douglas Farmer, M.D.
Director, Intestinal Transplant Program
Medical Director, Pediatric Liver Transplant Program
Associate Professor of Surgery
  photo not available  Marvin E. Ament, M.D.
Professor, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology
         
Dr. John Duffy John Duffy, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery 
  Dr. Martin G. Martin Martin G. Martin, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology
         
Dr. Johnny Hong

Johnny Hong, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery

  photo not available Jorge Vargas, M.D.
Professor, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology
         

Liver Transplant Coordinators 

         
 Dr. Joanna Colangelo Joanna Colangelo, R.N.
Transplant Coordinator
     
         
 Yvonne Esmailian  Yvonne Esmailian, R.N, A.C.N.P., B.C.      
         
Karyn Hafner, R.N. Karyn Spruill, R.N.
Pre Adult Liver Transplant Coordinator
   

 

         
Greg Kuncler, R.N.

Gregg Kunder, R.N.
Post Adult Liver Transplant Coordinator

     
         
 Anna Zafar, R.N. Karyn Marks, R.N.
Liver Transplant Coordinator 
     
         
 Anna Zafar, R.N.  Anna Zafar, R.N.
Liver/Small Bowel Transplant Coordinator
     
         

 

Liver OR Team Members 

         
  Randolph Steadman, M.D
Professor of Clinical Anesthesia
    Christopher Wray, M.D
         
   Fong Chuu, R.N.      Alan Arbolado, R.N.
         
Fil Apeles, R.N.
   

Andre Abramyan, ORT

         

Angelita Villegas, R.N.

     Erik Phelps, ORT
         
  Kharen Palacio, R.N.
     Manny Nieto, R.N.
         
   Villa Jareun, R.N.
     Michelle Keeler, R.N.