Your training experience
As a fellow at Mayo Clinic, you'll have access to robust clinical, educational, and research resources. You'll find support inside and outside of the campus to promote wellness and ensure work/life balance.
The Abdominal Transplant Surgery Fellowship at Mayo Clinic's campus in Rochester, Minnesota, provides fellows with the best possible foundation for a career in transplantation surgery. The American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) has accredited Mayo Clinic for training in liver and kidney transplantation.
This two-year fellowship prepares fellows for either academic medicine or private practice by training with board-certified staff who teach management concepts in laparoscopic donor nephrectomy, living donor transplantation (Kidney and Liver), deceased donor liver, kidney, and pancreas transplantation, pediatric transplantation exposure, multidisciplinary team management, multi-organ transplants, and paired donation.
Program highlights include:
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Abdominal transplant surgery has a unique combination of having to do the most challenging surgeries, develop long term relationships with patients, and participating in the fascinating and rapidly evolving field of transplant immunology. Overall, these factors make abdominal transplant surgery an obvious choice for me.
Niv Pencovici, M.D., Ph.D.
Abdominal transplant surgery fellow
adult liver transplants performed annually
adult kidney transplants performed annually
adult pancreas transplants performed annually
As a fellow at Mayo Clinic, you'll have access to robust clinical, educational, and research resources. You'll find support inside and outside of the campus to promote wellness and ensure work/life balance.
"The Mayo Clinic culture is pervasive in every facet of the system, including the transplant division. We strive to treat our fellows like our partners and give them the responsibility and autonomy they need to grow into great transplant surgeons."
The Abdominal Transplant Surgery Fellowship is approved by the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) under delegated authority of the ACGME for kidney and liver transplantation certifications. However, there will also be exposure to pancreas transplantation and hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery (HPB) in addition to pediatric transplantation (liver and kidney).
When you successfully complete the Abdominal Transplant Surgery Fellowship, you will be eligible to be certified by the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS).
The ASTS-accredited Abdominal Transplant Surgery Fellowship began at Mayo Clinic in 1979. Since it began, more than 70 fellows have completed training in this program. Going forward, it is anticipated that two fellows will complete this program every year.
Mayo Clinic is a world-renowned institution offering superb patient care and effective multidisciplinary work. The seamless integration between the medical, surgical, and other professionals here is hard to match, and becomes paramount when treating transplant patients. Training in such an environment prepares you for a successful career, and gives you clear insight of how things run, not only inside the operating rooms.
Mohammed Shaheen, M.D.
Abdominal transplant surgery fellow (2016-2019)