List of Accredited Transplant Nephrology Fellowship Programs

The mission of the University of Southern California Transplant Nephrology Fellowship Program is to educate Fellows in the comprehensive assessment and management of kidney transplant recipients. The training program at the Keck Medical Center of USC will provide fellows an excellent subspecialty education in this aspect of kidney diseases. The program is organized to provide the Fellow competency in the specialty as established by American Society of Transplantation and United Network of Organ Sharing guidelines.

The kidney transplant program at Tampa General Hospital was ranked number 14 on the most active transplant programs in the nation. The one year survival in 2015 was 98.15% and the national average is 97.65%. The program is staffed by 8 certified transplant nephrologists with a very busy in service rotation with an average of 50 patients in the day. We also receive an average of 1000 referrals for transplant evaluation per year.

The Transplant Nephrology fellowship program at Tulane Abdominal Transplant Institute is a one year, comprehensive clinical training program designed to provide the trainee with a well-rounded education in clinical kidney/pancreas transplantation, transplant immunology, and transplant clinical research. With approximately 125 kidney and pancreas transplant per year, the trainee will achieve the required expertise to independently care for transplant patients. The training includes exposure to multi-disciplinary care of kidney and pancreas patients, evaluation of liver disease patients for potential combined liver-kidney transplants, achieve expertise in performing and interpreting renal allograft biopsy, and the role of histocompatibility laboratory at its applications. The trainee will have dedicated time to pursue research and other educational activities. 

The University of Maryland Transplant Program is one of the largest and most successful transplant centers in the United States. The Transplant Fellowship Program is certified by the American Society of Transplantation and is accredited for training in kidney and pancreas transplantation. The duration of the fellowship is 12 months. During this period the trainee will be exposed to all aspects of transplantation medicine and become a UNOS-certified transplant physician who could take the role of medical director in any kidney and pancreas transplant program. The fellowship program includes 6 months of inpatient transplant rotations. During this period the trainees will function in a multidisciplinary team, working closely with transplant surgery, transplant pharmacy, and transplant Infectious disease teams and dedicated nursing and support staff. The transplant fellow functions under direct supervision of one our transplant nephrology faculty, and is involved with all aspects of medical care and immunosuppressive therapy of the patients. The large number of patients transplanted and followed by our center provides a very rich experience for the trainees to be exposed to and learn about all aspects of transplantation and the different forms of post-transplant complications and medical care. The trainees have rotations in the Immunogenetics and Pathology laboratories to learn about the tissue typing and antibody-detection techniques and the interpretation of the results, and renal and pancreas allograft pathology. In addition, the fellows have a weekly post-transplant clinic to learn about the outpatient care of transplant recipients throughout the year, and weekly recipient and donor evaluation clinics for six months. Clinical or basic science research is mandatory and the fellows can choose to work with one of the clinical researches in the division or one of the transplant immunologists in the medical center to work on and complete a research project. For an interested trainee who would like to have an additional year of research training we will assist in obtaining additional appropriate funding for a second-year research fellowship. Participation in the weekly recipient evaluation, donor evaluation, Transplant pathology, and Mortality and Morbidity meetings, and opportunity to perform numerous allograft biopsies and learn transplant imaging hands-on, provides the fellows with skills to become independent medical directors in any transplant program. The transplant nephrology fellow is expected to assist in supervising and teaching the general nephrology fellows, internal medicine residents and medical students on the transplant service. Didactic components of the program include a weekly transplant seminar on transplant medicine or immunology, face to face discussion of AST curricular topics with transplant nephrology faculty and bimonthly journal clubs. Attendance in the yearly AST Fellows Symposium and the American Transplant Congress is required, and the fellows are expected to present their research in this meeting and complete a manuscript for publication. To obtain further information about our fellowship program please contact Dr. Haririan, the program director, ahariria@som.umaryland.edu, or the program coordinator, Ms. Cintia Crumedy, ccrumedy@som.umaryland.edu, phone number 410-328- 5720. 

The University of Michigan Transplant Nephrology Fellowship is a comprehensive clinical and research program in which the trainee will acquire extensive experience in the outpatient and inpatient management of kidney, kidney-pancreas, liver, lung and heart transplant recipients. The trainee is directly involved in the University of Michigan Desensitization and Paired Kidney Exchange Programs, QA and QI programs, and will perform over 50 kidney transplant biopsies over the year of training. The fellow will be exposed to interpretation of histocompatibility data and techniques, matching programs and algorithms, and reporting of program performance metrics. The fellow becomes progressively independent during the year of fellowship, and is expected to complete and publish at least one clinical research project.

The transplant nephrology fellowship at the University of Minnesota offers strong training in kidney and pancreas transplantation. With our annual transplant rates of nearly 200 kidneys from living and deceased donors and more than 30 pancreas transplant with or without kidneys, trainees will find a rich environment to develop the skills needed to thrive and grow as a transplant clinician in any program they choose after training. We also offer substantial research exposure with our own long-standing University of Minnesota database and the SRTR standard analysis file. Fellowship rotations are structured to meet TNFTAP requirements. Our clinical services are consultative, and we work closely with the transplant surgical team and different medical groups who serve as the primary inpatient teams for transplant recipients at various stages of their care. Additionally, we offer a long research block, transplant infectious disease rotation, and a two week HLA lab block. Our fellows enjoy a light call schedule, which consists of once a month weekend call and no overnight calls.

The Nephrology Transplant Fellowship at the University of North Carolina Hospitals provides subspecialty clinical and research training in all aspects of kidney transplantation. The twelve month program accepts one fellow per year and has been accredited since 2005. The program is committed to providing the Transplant Nephrology Fellow a mentored learning opportunity in preparation for a career in academic medicine focused on kidney transplantation. 

The Transplant Nephrology Fellowship Program at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine (NYP-WCM) provides advanced education and training to the next generation of transplant nephrologists.  Our kidney transplant program has a long and distinguished history having performed the very first first kidney transplant in the New York tri-state region in October 1963.  We perform more than 200 kidney transplants annually with excellent patient and graft outcomes and to date have carried out more than 5000 kidney transplants. In addition to the robust kidney transplantation program, kidney and pancreas, pancreas alone, liver and liver and kidney transplants are performed at our center.

US News & World Report consistently ranked our Nephrology program in the top 5 in the last five years. Our Department of Transplantation Medicine was founded in 1994 with Dr. Manikkam Suthanthiran as the founding Chief. Our training program inculcates the trainees with knowledge of immunology, immunogenetics, histocompatibility testing, pharmacology and management of immunosuppression, as well as management of early and late complications post kidney-transplantation. In close collaboration with the transplant surgeons, the program offers critical knowledge of surgical techniques and associated complications.

Our Department of Transplantation is comprised of prominent clinicians and scientists committed to training the next generation of physicians.  We have an ideal balance of clinical medicine and basic, translational and clinical research. Our faculty consists of 7 transplant nephrologists, 3 kidney transplant surgeons, 2 kidney pathologists, and 6 histocompatibility experts. Our program is unique in that two of our clinical faculty, Drs. Manikkam Suthanthiran and Darshana Dadhania, have expertise in histocompatibility testing and are New York State licensed Directors of Immunogenetics and Transplantation Laboratory. Our graduates of transplant nephrology fellowship are academic faculty at prestigious institutions such as University of Michigan, University of Chicago, University of California at San Francisco and NYPH/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

We have a highly productive research laboratory with continuous NIH funding for the past three decades. Our Gene Expression Profiling (GEM) laboratory under the leadership of Dr. Manikkam Suthanthiran has pioneered the development of noninvasive biomarkers to ascertain kidney status and has functioned as the Molecular Core for multi-center NIH sponsored Clinical Trials in Organ Transplantation. Our faculty has active research projects focused on developing mRNA/miRNA profiles predictive of acute rejection in kidney allografts, allograft fibrosis, diagnosis and prognostication of BK virus nephropathy and studies of alterations in the gut microbiome in kidney allograft recipients.

The University of Cincinnati Transplant Program has been a national leader in organ transplantation for over 45 years, with a very active Kidney and Kidney-Pancreas Transplant Program. The Transplant Program is currently staffed by four transplant nephrologists, six transplant surgeons, a nurse practitioner, and the full complement of ancillary professionals, including pharmacists, social workers and transplant immunology personnel.

Our overall goal is to mold the Transplant Fellow into an outstanding clinician with experience that extends all the way from a strong clinical base to state-of-the-art research protocols, especially in the context of antibody-mediated rejection and desensitization.

The program includes six months on a dedicated renal transplant inpatient service attended by a transplant nephrologist. Patients are admitted under the transplant nephrologist and include deceased and living-donor renal transplants, expanded criteria and donation after cardiac death donors, an active desensitization program, as well as management of a wide variety of post-transplant problems. Electives include Transplant Infectious Disease, HLA Lab, Transplant Pathology, Pediatric transplant, and research. There are a large number of outpatient clinics including pre-transplant assessment and post-transplant care, and a comprehensive set of formal teaching activities.

An established, renowned, large volume transplant program with experienced transplant nephrologist, surgeons, pathologist, critical care MD's and HLA directors will provide a comprehensive clinical and research training in renal transplantation. Clinical program will cover both inpatient and outpatient services and will cover both pre and post transplant as well as short and long-term transplant care. Opportunities for research with various clinical and research leaders are available to enrich fellowship training.

This is a one year training experience that begins at the time a candidate is board eligible or certified for the subspecialty of nephrology. The training program includes a six-month clinical experience in which the trainee will manage at least 30 renal transplant recipients as the primary care giver in both in-and outpatient settings, donor evaluation, pre-transplant and recipient evaluation, and all prominent features for the clinical experience. The trainee is expected to manage immunosuppression, fluid-electrolyte balance, acid base balance, blood pressure and glucose controle, and anti-infective prophylaxis for all newly engrafted recipients. There is also an additional six-months of elective time including rotations through transplant pathology, tissue typing, organ bank activities, transplant of other organs, pediatric renal transplantation, and research. Each trainee is expected to be a participant in a clinical and/or basic transplant research project during the year with the expectation that publishable data will be obtained by the trainee. In addition to these clinical and research activities, the training program includes a journal club, weekly transplant research conference, weekly transplant patient conference, monthly renal transplant biopsy conference, as well as other didactic activities in the Division of Nephrology.

The fellow will perform supervised care for kidney transplant recipients including inpatient and outpatient, at the UTSW- Clements University Hospital and the Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas. The transplant nephrology fellowship offers a comprehensive multidisciplinary clinical training in solid organ transplantation including a dedicated blocks to renal pathology, renal transplant sonogram, transplant infectious disease, and transplant immunology laboratory experience.

This is a comprehensive fellowship in transplant nephrology with exposure to the pretransplant selection process, the inpatient management and the post transplant follow up care of the kidney and pancreas transplant recipient. There is exposure to both ABO incompatible and HLA-incompatible living donor-recipient pairs. The fellows are expected to spend some time in the HLA lab as well as in the operating room where they will observe both the organ retrieval as well as the recipient surgery. Management of immunosuppressive protocols and treatment of both acute cellular rejection and antibody-mediated rejection are emphasized.

The Division of Transplantation in the Department of Surgery together with the Department of Medicine Section of Nephrology offer a one-year transplant medicine fellowships annually. The transplant medicine fellows at the University of Wisconsin will gain in-depth exposure to the medical management of kidney and pancreas transplant recipients in the inpatient and outpatient setting. The transplant medicine fellows will gain experience in renal transplant biopsies as well as managing immunosuppression for kidney and pancreas recipients. As part of the educational program, the transplant medicine fellows round daily, attend weekly educational conferences, patient section, and morbidity and mortality conferences.