Rhode Island Hospital Kidney Transplant Center
The Transplant Team
 Anthony
P. Monaco, MD, is the head of the transplant team. He is the distinguished
Peter Medawar Professor of Transplantation Surgery of Harvard Medical
School. His pioneering accomplishments in kidney transplantation have
been recognized by his election to the presidencies of the American
Society of Transplant Surgeons, the International Transplantation
Society, the Massachusetts Chapter of the American College of Surgeons
and the New England Organ Bank. He has been honored by election to
the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He is senior editor of the
journal Transplantation.
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Reginald Gohh, MD, is the medical
director and transplant nephrologist at Rhode Island Hospital
and is a former recipient of the Young Investigator's Award
of the American Society of Transplant Physicians. He is an
Associate Professor of Medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
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Paul E. Morrissey, MD, is an Associate Professor of Surgery at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He completed
his postgraduate training with specialization in transplantation
at Yale and Harvard and serves on the editorial board of Transplantation
and on the oversight committee of the New England Organ Bank.
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Andrew S. Brem, MD, is director of
the division of pediatric nephrology at Hasbro Children's
Hospital, the pediatric division of Rhode Island Hospital.
He is a professor of pediatrics at Brown Medical School. Brem
was awarded the Gift of Life Medical Award in 1996 by the
National Kidney Foundation.
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Bette Hopkins-Garcia, RN, CCTC, is the transplant manager
at the Rhode Island Hospital Kidney Transplant Center.
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Supporting Specialists
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Rhode Island Hospital's Kidney Transplant Center has organized a comprehensive group of supporting specialists to
ensure that every aspect of each patient's care is expertly and
seamlessly coordinated. These include:
- a transplant pathologist
- a dermatologist assigned to handle the skin lesions that commonly
afflict the transplant population
- cardiologists specializing in managing the cardiovascular risk
factors that can be critical to a kidney recipient's long-term
survival
- infectious disease specialists
- psychiatrists
- transplant nurses
- nutritionists
- a pharmacist
- transplant social workers
- a financial coordinator to assist with third party coverage.
In short, we make sure that nothing is left to chance for
the long-term well-being of our kidney transplant patients.
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