Change Lives Through Surgical Innovation Comprehensive Abdominal Transplant Fellowship Program

Become a Leader in
Abdominal Transplant Surgery

The Johns Hopkins Abdominal Transplant Fellowship program offers a unique experience for talented residents from the U.S. and abroad to train at one of the nation’s best hospitals.

This multi-organ transplant fellowship is an ASTS-certified two-year program for liver and kidney transplant training. We are also ASTS approved to provide Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary certification. We have three fellows rotating through our program and we accept one to two transplant fellows each year.

A Letter from our Program Director

"All surgical procedures are performed by our transplant faculty and fellows. Our faculty is composed of highly experienced and academically successful leaders in transplantation.What sets us apart from other programs is the vast expanse of clinically diverse patients that is referred to the Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center from around the world because of the reputation of our faculty and hospital."

Application Process

Learn more information about how you can apply to the Johns Hopkins Abdominal Transplant Fellowship and application dates.

Current and Past Fellows

Learn more about our alumni and current first and second year fellows.

Meet Our Faculty

Work alongside our experienced transplant surgeons. Learn more about the Johns Hopkins Abdominal Transplant Fellowship faculty.

Fellowship Experience

Learn more about rotations, clinical experience, research and career development at the Johns Hopkins Abdominal Transplant Fellowship program.

Benefits and Salary

Salary

We anticipate the salary for the initial year of the appointment will be at least $70,000. This amount is subject to final adjustment and approval.

Benefits

As employees of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, fellows will be eligible for a full set of benefit options for themselves and their dependents. Details regarding benefits can be found here.

Vacation

Each fellow will be allowed two weeks of vacation (not including required or elective conferences, with approval of the program director). This must overlap with their DCR rotations. The DCR fellow is responsible for informing all fellows and attendings of their upcoming vacation time at least one month in advance.

Education and Professional Development Resources

Fellows will be supported to travel to research conferences, should they get an abstract accepted. During the second year of fellowship, the fellows will also be supported to go to the fellow American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) conference and the ASTS living donor nephrectomy workshop.