Dev Desai, MD, PhD

Associate Professor
Surgery, Pediatrics

Contact Information

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

dev.desai@utsouthwestern.edu

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

Biography

Dr. Desai is a general and transplant surgeon specializing in liver, kidney, pancreas and intestinal transplantation, as well as open and laparoscopic hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, portal hypertensive vascular decompression procedures and laparoscopic donor nephrectomy. Dr. Desai is also head of pediatric abdominal transplantation at Children’s Medical Center.

Education

FellowshipStanford University Hospital (2003)
ResidencyStanford University Hospital (2001)
FellowshipStanford University Hospital (1998)
ResidencyStanford University Hospital (1997)
InternshipStanford University Hospital (1996)
Medical SchoolUniversity of California, San Francisco (1995)
Graduate SchoolUniversity of California at San Francisco (1994)

Publications

Featured
Liver Transplantation

Desai, Esquivel , Anesthesiologist’s Manual of Surgical Procedures, 3rd Ed , 2003; (Lippincott Williams Wilki)

The current status of living donor liver transplantation.

Tuttle-Newhall, Collins, Desai, Kuo, Heneghan , Current Problems in Surgery , 2005; (42(3)):144-183

Half-Life Analysis of Pancreas and Kidney Transplants.

Marroquin, Edwards, Collins, Desai, Tuttle-Newhall, Kuo , Transplantation , 2005; (80):272-275

Gastrointestinal hemorrhage due to complicated gastroduodenal ulcer disease in liver transplant patients taking sirolimus.

Smith, Bai, Marroquin, Tuttle-Newhall, Desai, Collins, Muir, Kuo, McHutchinson, Rockey. , Clinical Transplantation , 2005; (19):250-254

Perioperative Management of Special Populations: Immunocompromised Host

Desai, Kuo , Surgery Clinics of North America , 2005; (85(6)):1267-1282

Honors/Awards

ASTS-Novartis

Fellowship in Transplantation (2001)

International Pediatric Transplant Association

Travel Grant (2000)

Stanford University School of Medicine

John Henry Smith Award (2000)

Transplantation Society

Travel Grant (2000)

Pfizer/American College of Surgeson

Travel Award (1999)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

American College of Surgeons

American Society of Transplant Surgeons

International Pediatric Transplant Association

Society of University Surgeons

United Network of Organ Sharing