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The faculty and staff at the Hume-Lee Transplant Center is dedicated to education and ongoing research to promote the most outstanding outcomes and continued quality of life for our patients that we are able to continually achieve.
Our multi-disciplinary team is comprised of many transplant and internal medicine industry experts who collaborate to provide our patients the highest quality of care before, during and after transplantation.
| Chair, VCU Division of Transplantation Surgery, Director, Hume-Lee Transplant Center |
Marlon F. Levy, MD, FACS |
| Associate Professor, Surgery | Adrian Cotterell, MD |
| Associate Professor, Surgery | Amit Sharma, MD, MPhil |
| Associate Professor, Surgery | Chandra Bhati, MD, MS |
| Associate Professor, Surgery | Vinay Kumaran, MBBS, M Ch |
| Associate Professor, Surgery | David Bruno, MD, FACS |
| Associate Professor, Surgery | Seung Duk Lee, MD, PhD |
| Associate Professor, Surgery | Aamir Kahn, MBBS |
| Nurse Practitioner | Michael Akyeampong, AGACNP |
| Nurse Practitioner | Johanna Christensen, NP |
| Nurse Practitioner | Jeanette Amery, NP |
| Physician Assistant | Becky Hickey, PA |
| Nurse Practitioner | Megan Gray, NP |
| Physician Assistant | Vanessa Taylor, PA |
Transplant Nephrologists |
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| Medical Director, Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Program | Gaurav Gupta, MD |
| Associate Professor, Internal Medicine & Nephrology Professor, Internal Medicine | Anne King, MD |
| Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine | Dhiren Kumar, MD |
| Professor, Pediatric Nephrology | Timothy Bunchman, MD |
| Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine | Layla Kamal, MD |
| Assistant Professor, Pediatric | Megan M. Lo, MD |
| Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine | Irfan A. Moinuddin, MD |
| Nurse Practitioner | Dana Steele, NP |
The kidney transplant team also includes pre-, inpatient, and post-transplant nurse coordinators who work closely with our patients and their families throughout the entire referral, evaluation, transplant and post-transplant process.
Hepatologists |
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| Medical Director, Liver Transplant Program Professor, Internal Medicine |
Richard T. Stravitz, MD |
| Chief, Section of Hepatology Professor, Internal Medicine |
Richard Sterling, MD |
| Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine | Vaishali Patel, MD |
| Professor, Internal Medicine | Arun Sanyal, MD |
| Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine | M. Shadab Siddiqui, MD |
| Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine | Scott C. Matherly, MD |
| Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine | Hannah Lee, MD |
The liver transplant team also includes ambulatory and inpatient nurse coordinators who work closely with our patients and their families throughout the entire referral, evaluation, transplant and post-transplant process, as well as hepatocellular carcinoma nurse coordinators who work with patients with liver cancer and coordinate their care with the interdisciplinary team.
The Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center is one of six VA liver transplant centers in the U.S. The team evaluates, coordinates and manages the care of veterans with end-stage liver disease before and after liver transplant. The liver transplant surgery is performed at the Hume-Lee Transplant Center.
| Medical Director, GI/Hepatology & Liver Transplantation | Michael Fuchs, MD, PhD |
| Clinical Program Director, Liver Transplantation | HoChong Gilles, DNP, FNP-BC |
| Assistant Professor, GI/Hepatology & Liver Transplantation | Brian Davis, MD |
| Assistant Professor, GI/Hepatology & Liver Transplantation | Samarth Patel, MD |
| Coordinator, Liver Transplantation | Felicia Tinsley, MSN, MHA, RN |
| Program Support Assistant, Liver Transplantation | Cecile Rock |
| Interventional Radiology Director, Vascular Interventional Radiology |
Malcolm K. Sydnor, Jr., MD |
| Transplant Infectious Disease Director, Transplant Infectious Disease |
Oveimar De la Cruz, MD |
| Chair, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism | Francesco S. Celi, MD, MHSc |
| Transplant Endocrinologist | Stephanie B. Mayer, MD MHSc |
| Administrative Director | Will Maixner, MHA, FACHE |
| Clinical Program Director | Caitlin Winkler, MSN, RN |
| Nursing Director | Brett Neville, MS, RN |
| Transplant Program Manager | Allison Lewis, MSN, RN |
| Transplant Psychologist | Stephan Weinland, PhD |
| HLA Laboratory Director | Pamela Kimball, PhD |
| Islet Cell Laboratory Director | Mazhar Kanak, PhD |
| Islet Cell Laboratory Assistant Director | Prathab Balaji Saravanan, PhD |
| Transplant Research | Mary Baldecchi, RN |
| Transplant Pharmacist | Idris Yakubu, PharmD |
| Transplant Pharmacist | Ryan Winstead, PharmD, BCPS |
| Transplant Pharmacist | Moses O. Demehin, PharmD |
| Transplant Pharmacist | Chelsey (Chenxi) Song, PharmD, BCPS |
