Transplant Surgeon

Patients on the list cannot wait for a slower decision or a safer excuse. This role exists to evaluate complex candidates, accept the right organs, and perform transplants that convert an offer into a functioning graft. You will own the surgical standard of a high-acuity program and make the calls that determine survival, recovery, and whether the next offer is used well.

Performance Objectives

• Select and list candidates so decisions are timely, evidence-based, and ready when an organ is offered.
• Perform designated solid-organ transplants with graft and patient survival that meet or exceed national benchmarks.
• Assess donor organs and set intraoperative strategy, including marginal-graft use, to raise safe utilization without trading away results.
• Direct early postoperative care to cut preventable complications, unplanned returns, and early graft loss.
• Lead selection, OR, and ICU coordination so every case has one plan from offer through discharge.
• Drive quality review and regulatory readiness so outcomes, complications, and documentation stay survey-ready.
• Teach residents, fellows, and advanced practice clinicians so judgment and coverage deepen beyond a single surgeon.

Environment and Resources

You will work in a multidisciplinary transplant service with dedicated coordinators, urgent OR access, and ICU teams fluent in immunosuppression and graft monitoring. You report to the transplant program director or surgical chief, with protected time for clinic, call, and quality work. Imaging, organ-offer systems, electronic records, and administrative support for privileges, schedules, and case documentation are in place.

Essential Qualifications

• MD or DO, an accredited general surgery residency, and an ASTS-accredited abdominal transplant fellowship, or the equivalent for this organ focus.
• Board certification or active eligibility in general surgery, with privileges matched to the organs you will procure and implant.
• Independent experience in deceased- and, where relevant, living-donor transplantation for the program’s case mix.
• Eligibility for state licensure, hospital privileges, DEA registration, and required life-support certification.
• A record of selection-committee judgment, complication management, and clear communication with patients and families under time pressure.

Role Selling Points

• Outcomes you can own, not a narrow slice of someone else’s service line.
• A team organized around organ offers, not around delays that miss the OR.
• Real influence over selection criteria, call design, and quality priorities.
• Room to grow volume while survival and complications stay visible.
• Credentialing and placement support so clinical time stays in the OR, clinic, and on call.

If you want your work judged by grafts that function and patients who go home, apply with your CV, case log, and a short note on the organs and outcomes you own.