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The Renal and Pancreas Transplant Program at Saint Barnabas Medical Center Welcomes New Physician Livingston, NJ -- The Renal and Pancreas Transplant Program at Saint Barnabas Medical Center is pleased to welcome Transplant Physician Kim N. Nguyen, MD.
Dr. Nguyen joins Shamkant Mulgaonkar MD, FASN, Chief of the Renal and Pancreas Transplant Division of Saint Barnabas Health Care System, and three other board-certified nephrologists to form Associates in Transplant Medicine – a hospital-based transplant physician practice established in 2007 at Saint Barnabas Medical Center. Her partners include; Anup M. Patel, MD, Francis L. Weng, MD, and Anne Pesenson, MD. The Renal and Pancreas Transplant Division of Saint Barnabas Health Care System, with programs at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and Saint Barnabas Medical Center, form one of the largest programs among 240 in the country with more than 225 transplant surgeries performed each year, and more than 4,380 since 1968. Since the program began nearly 40 years ago, it has remained a leader in the field and pioneered a series of medical firsts in New Jersey, among them, the first living donor kidney transplant program, pediatric nephrology and transplantation program, paired kidney exchange, program for incompatible transplantation and robotic-assisted donor nephrectomy (removal) surgery. In 2006, Saint Barnabas created New Jersey’s first Living Donor Institute to promote living donation as the best transplant option for patients with chronic kidney disease. Through the Institute, our experienced team is able to forge new opportunities for people who want to donate a healthy kidney to someone in need of a kidney transplant. Programs offered include:
Associates in Transplant Medicine is located on the Third Floor of the East Wing at Saint Barnabas Medical Center, 94 Old Short Hills Road in Livingston, NJ. They can be reached at 973-322-5065. For more information on The Renal and Pancreas Transplant Division of Saint Barnabas Health Care System, please visit saintbarnabas.com. Date: November 4, 2008 Saint Barnabas Contact: Samantha Anton, 973-322-5425 [ top ] |
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Board certified in internal medicine and nephrology, Dr. Nguyen joins Saint Barnabas Medical Center from University of Michigan, University Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she completed a transplant nephrology fellowship and served as a clinical lecturer in the department of medicine. Prior to that, she spent several years on staff in the department of nephrology at Henry Ford Health Systems in Detroit, Michigan. Dr. Nguyen completed a general nephrology fellowship and an internal medicine residency and internship at New York Medical College, St. Vincent Catholic Medical Center of Manhattan. Her clinical research interests include anemia in chronic kidney disease, malignancy after kidney transplantation and clinical outcomes in transplant. She has recently presented research at the 2008 American Transplant Congress.
