Juan Arenas, MD

Associate Professor
Surgery

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

juan.arenas@utsouthwestern.edu

To make an appointment, call 214-645-8300.

Biography

Dr. Arenas is a multi-organ transplant surgeon trained at the University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in living donor liver transplantation, donation after cardiac death and extracorporeal circulatory support, and laparoscopic liver surgery including robotic assisted surgery. He is Chairman of Surgery’s Division of Surgical Transplantation and Surgical Director of the UT Liver Transplant Program.

Education

FellowshipUniversity of Pennsylvania Medical Center (1997)
ResidencyPenn State Univ-Milton S. Hershey (1996)
FellowshipPenn State Univ-Milton S. Hershey (1991)
Medical SchoolUniversidad El Bosque (1987)

Publications

Featured
Chapter 46: Complications of Liver Transplantation

Arenas, Punch , Complications of Surgery , 2006; (Lippincott Williams Wilki):655-664

Featured
Chapter 5: Robotics in Surgery.

Arenas JD , Surgery in the New Century , 2004; (Milestone Publishing):45-52

Early pancreas transplant outcomes with histidine-tryptophan-ketoglutarate preservation: a multicenter study.

Englesbe, Moyer, Kim, Granger, Pietroski, Yoshida, Arenas, Oh, Pelletier, Campbell, Punch, Magee, Gruber, Sung , Transplantation , 2006; (82(1)):136-9

Efficacy and safety of low-dose valganciclovir in the prevention of cytomegalovirus disease in adult liver transplant recipients.

Park, Lake, Arenas, Fontana , Liver Transplantation , 2006; (12(1)):112-6

Kidney transplantation from organ donors following cardiopulmonary death using extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support.

Gravel, Arenas, Chenault, Magee, Rudich, Maraschio, DebRoy , Annals of Transplantation , 2004; (9(1)):57-8

Professional Associations/Affiliations

American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases

American Society of Transplantation Surgeons

Southwest Transplant Alliance

Texas Transplantation Society

United Network for Organ Sharing