Dr. Fletcher received his undergraduate degree at Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, MD, and received his medical degree at The George Washington University School of Medicine, in Washington, D.C., where he also completed his surgical residency. He has been a member of the surgical staff at Saint Barnabas Medical Center since 1972 and has been performing kidney transplant operations since 1978. Currently, he is clinical associate professor of surgery at the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark. Dr. Fletcher is board certified in surgery and has published widely on a variety of surgery topics.

Martin Jacobs, MD
Transplant Nephrologist

Dr. Jacobs has been treating patients with End Stage Renal Disease since the 1960's. Though transplantation was still in its infancy and formal training not yet available, Dr. Jacobs was eager to bring the potentially life-saving kidney transplant option to his native New Jersey. He and his fellow nephrologists and surgeons spent years researching the experimental transplants that had taken place to date and sought out the expertise of physicians at major academic medical centers around the world. These efforts led to the beginning of a medical program that would go on to perform the first kidney transplant in the State of New Jersey.

Kim Nguyen, MD
Transplant Physician

Dr. Nguyen joined the Renal and Pancreas Transplant Program at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in 2008 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. Dr. Nguyen is board certified in internal medicine and nephrology. 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

Anup M. Patel, MD
Transplant Physician

Dr. Patel received his undergraduate degree from Rice University and his medical degree with A.O.A. distinction from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School. He joined the Saint Barnabas Transplant Department in 2004 after completing an internal medicine residency and fellowships in nephrology and transplant nephrology at the University of Michigan. An active researcher, Dr. Patel has published articles addressing infection prophylaxis and transplantation of the immunologically high risk patient in major transplant journals. Dr. Patel is the Director of Alternative Programs for Living Donation.

Anne Pesenson, MD
Transplant Physician

Dr. Pesenson joins The Renal and Pancreas Transplant Program at Saint Barnabas after completing an American Society of Transplantation/American Society of Nephrology certified transplant nephrology fellowship at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, WA, and a nephrology fellowship at Boston University Medical Center in Boston, MA. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, and remained in Philadelphia to receive her medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine and pursue a residency in internal medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Her research has been presented at several national nephrology and transplant conferences, most recently at the American Society of Nephrology 2007 meeting.

Harry Sun, MD
Transplant Surgeon, Saint Barnabas Health Care System

Dr. Sun joined Associates in Transplant and General Surgery in 2007 following a two-year fellowship in multi-organ transplant at the University of Alabama Birmingham. Previously, Dr. Sun spent five years at Saint Barnabas Medical Center completing his General Surgery Internship and Residency. He served as Chief Resident during his final year. He received a medical degree from Saint George’s University School of Medicine and an undergraduate degree in Biology from Muhlenberg College. Dr. Sun is board certified in surgery and has presented his original research at several national conventions.

Francis L. Weng, MD, MSCE
Transplant Physician

Dr. Weng received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University, his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and his residency training in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York City. He also completed clinical and research fellowships in nephrology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA. During his fellowship, Dr. Weng received additional training in transplant nephrology and earned his master of science degree in Clinical Epidemiology from Penn’s Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. His clinical research interests include post-transplant infections and outcomes, medication adherence and health disparities and access to transplantation. His research has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and published in leading nephrology and transplant journals.