Andrea
G. Tzakis, M.D., is Professor of Surgery and Director of the Liver/GI Transplant
Program and Co-Director, Division of Transplantation at the University of Miami School of
Medicine.
Dr. Tzakis has participated in over 1,500 liver transplants and was instrumental in
developing ground breaking procedures in multivisceral and small bowel transplantation.
The Liver/GI Transplant team respects the wishes and beliefs of
its patients and has performed surgeries without transfusions including liver resections,
shunts for portal hypertensions and liver transplantation.
Under his direction, the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial
Medical Center was the 6th largest liver transplant center (by volume) for 1994 and the
third largest in 1995 and 1996.
Stuart R. Toledano, M.D. is a Professor of
Pediatrics at the University of Miami School of Medicine, where he has been the Director
of the Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology since 1983. Dr. Toledano received the
Teaching Award from the University of Miami School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
in 1982 as well as the American Cancer Society's Training Fellow Award from 1977-79, In
addition, he has published many articles in medical journals related to Pediatric
Oncology, Leukemia and Brain Tumors which are Dr. Toledano's areas of medical expertise. Over the years, Dr. Toledano has had extensive experience in treating children of Jehovah's Witness parents.
Hooshang
Bolooki M.D., FRCS(C), FACS, FACC is Professor of Surgery at the University of
Miami School of Medicine where he is Director of Adult Cardiac Surgery Service. Dr.
Bolooki is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the Royal College of Surgeons of
Canada and the American College of Cardiology. He is also a member of the American
Association for Thoracic Surgery and the American Surgical Association. His areas of
interest include complicated adult cardiac surgical procedures and reoperations which
involve coronary artery bypass surgery, repair and replacement of heart valves, aneurysms
of the heart and the aorta as well as thymectomy for myasthenia gravis. Since 1969 he has
been a member of the faculty of the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital and
"The Center for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery" He has been performing
open-heart surgery in Jehovah's Witness patients for the past 28 years.
Philip A. Villanueva, M.D.,
is the director of the Division of Neurotrauma, Department of Neurological Surgery, at the
UM/JM Medical Center. He has been with the department since 1984 and board
certified in neurological surgery since 1987. Dr. Villanueva is an expert in the
neurosurgical treatment of traumatic brain injured (TBI) patients. He also
specializes in implanting devices in both TBI and spinal cord injured patients who have
pain and spasticity.
Barth A. Green, M.D.,
chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery at the UM School of Medicine and
chief of neurological surgery at Jackson Memorial Hospital, is also a professor,
researcher, physician and paralysis expert. He and former Miami Dolphins player Nick
Buoniconti founded The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis where Dr. Green is president.
The Miami Project has pioneered research in the regeneration of central nervous system
tissue and use of genetic engineering to replace lost nerve cells. Dr. Green is a
third-generation physician who received his medical degree from Indiana University in
1969. His specific expertise is in the areas of spinal surgery of trauma,
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