Ochsner’s Transplant Institute offers a 2-year American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) accredited surgical program. One fellow will be accepted to the program each year.

Louisiana’s first liver transplant was performed at Ochsner in 1975. Since that time, more than 3500 adult and pediatric liver transplant operations have been performed. Since 1984, over 3200 kidney and kidney-pancreas transplants have been performed.

Our fellowship was started in 2016. We have successfully trained United States trained surgeons as well as international surgeons.

The case mix provides the fellow with an excellent clinical experience in the complex management of this specialty.

Fellows will also gain experience in pediatric liver and kidney transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery.

Program Highlights

• Excellent clinical volume (liver, kidney, pancreas)
• Dedicated teaching rounds
• Excellent advance practioner support
• Experience and innovative approaches to expanding donor pool
• DCD (liver and kidney)
• Live Donor Robotic-Assisted Nephrectomy
• Expanded criteria grafts
• Live Donor Liver Transplantation
• Experience in care for high risk liver transplant patients.
• Re-transplantation
• Multi organ transplant
• Morbidly Obese Patients
• Abundance of clinical research opportunities
• Experience with transplant organ perfusion
• Potential opportunity for specialized international visitorship
• Local donor recovery center

The program director is Dr. Ian Carmody.

How to Apply:

To apply to the Fellowship Program, please send the following to the address below.

• Letter of intent
• Curriculum vitae
• Three letters of recommendation

Upon completion of an application, possible fellowship candidates will be selected for a Zoom call and/or site visit. Final rank list will be based on candidate interview and application. We participate in the ASTS-sponsored SFmatch and follow the dates as per the official schedule. Fellowship starting date is August 1st.

We would be happy to host any interested candidates for an observership (ranging from 1 week to 1 month) prior to applying for the fellowship.

Send completed application by mail or email to:

Ian Carmody, MD
Program Director, Transplant Surgery
Transplant Department, Brent House 3rd floor,
Ochsner Medical Center – New Orleans
1514 Jefferson Highway
New Orleans, LA 70121
Email: icarmody@ochsner.org