Transplant Fellowship Receives National Approval

Just shy of 60 years ago, University of Utah Health launched the kidney transplantation program. After decades of leading-edge patient care, U of U Health remains Utah's only academic transplant center offering all solid organ transplant types: kidney, pancreas, and liver, as well as heart and lung transplants.

Leveraging these decades of expertise, innovation, and research, newly hired transplant surgeon Motaz Selim, MBBCH, MD, PhD, MSC, proposed and received the first TACC accreditation for the two-year fellowship through an incredible collaboration from division chief, Talia Baker, MD, and department chair, Fiemu Nwariaku, MD, MBA.

This fellowship will provide comprehensive training in liver and kidney transplants from deceased and living donors, pancreas transplants, and organ procurement from deceased and living donors (for both liver and kidney). Fellows will also participate in hepatobiliary surgery and laparoscopic and robotic surgical cases.

To graduate well-rounded future academic transplant surgeons in education and surgical expertise, these fellows will also train in all aspects of running a transplant program, including building and managing the waitlist and organ offer assessment. Fellows will also be heavily involved in the program's academic mission, particularly in research and surgical education of medical students and surgical residents.

Applications and interviews are open now for a July 2025 start.