Transplant Hepatology Fellowship
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas provides an ACGME-accredited clinical liver transplant fellowship. We are currently accepting applications for the one year position beginning July 2025 and invite gastroenterology board eligible individuals to apply.
UT Southwestern is one the premier academic centers in the country and has a long history of excellence in the study of liver disease from its inception by Dr. Burton Combes in 1957. From the Nobel Prize winning team of Michael Brown, M.D. and Joseph Goldstein, M.D. to continued work by Jay Horton, M.D. UT Southwestern has been on the forefront of lipid metabolism discoveries. Our illustrious faculty include past AASLD presidents Dr. Willis Maddrey and Dr. J. Gregory Fitz.
Currently, the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases has a number of NIDDK and NIH-funded trials centered on liver disease. William Lee, M.D., heads the Acute Liver Failure Study Group and has been the principal investigator in numerous studies on viral hepatitis, Mack Mitchell, M.D., is a principle investigator for a study on alcoholic hepatitis, and Amit Singal, M.D. lead studies on the early detection and treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma. Our faculty is also involved in additional clinical trials on hepatitis C, autoimmune liver disease, hepatorenal syndrome and fatty liver disease.
- Application Process
Application Process
Applications are submitted throught the AASLD Transplant Hepatology Fellowship Matching Program
Visit the AASLD Matching Program
International Applicants
Recognizing that some of our most talented applicants are not permanent residents, we are committed to recruiting qualified international trainees. UT Southwestern accepts permanent residents or J-1 ECFMG sponsored visas. Unfortunately, the medical school does not sponsor H-1B visas.
- Salaries and Benefits
Salaries and Benefits
Fellowship Year Program Year Salary Fellowship Year 1 PGY4 $80,299 Fellowship Year 2 PGY5 $84,095 Fellowship Year 3 or more PGY6 $86,503 Fellowship Year 4 PGY 7 $91,451 - Training Opportunities
Training Opportunities
The UT Southwestern liver program serves the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex with a population over 7 million and beyond. Trainees will have broad exposure to the full gamut of liver diseases, management of the liver transplant patient and multidisciplinary team approach in the inpatient and outpatient settings. The advanced hepatology fellow will be responsible for the care of chronic liver disease patients, performing liver transplant evaluations and post-transplant follow-up. Upon completion of the fellowship year, the trainee will be board eligible for certification in transplant hepatology and UNOS certification.
The liver transplant program, based at the state-of-the-art William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital, performs over 100 transplants a year with graft and patient survivals above expected and exceeding national and regional average.
- Faculty
Key clinical faculty include:
Thomas G. Cotter, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Lafaine Grant, M.D.
Associate Professor
Thomas A. Kerr, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Maddie Kubiliun, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Sarah Lieber, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Jeremy Louissaint, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Arjmand Mufti, M.D.
Associate Professor
Mark Pedersen, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Nicole Rich, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Lisa VanWagner, M.D.
Associate Professor
Contact Us
Digestive and Liver Diseases
UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Dallas, TX 75390-8887
Phone: 214-648-3985
Fax: 214-648-3989
Email
Shannan Tujios, M.D.
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Program Director
