The Liver Transplant Team at Cleveland Clinic is comprised of surgeons, liver transplant physicians, coordinators, nurses, social workers and a vast network of people and resources to make the liver transplant process as smooth as possible.
Liver Transplant Center Leadership
- Program Director and Surgical Director, Liver Transplantation: Cristiano Quintini, MD
- Medical Director, Liver Transplantation: K. V. Menon, MD
- Surgical Director, Pediatric & Living Donor Liver Transplantation: Koji Hashimoto, MD, PhD.
- Medical Director, Pediatric Liver Transplantation: Vera Hupertz, MD
Liver Transplant Surgeons
- Federico Aucejo, MD
- Bijan Eghtesad, MD
- Masato Fujiki, MD
- Koji Hashimoto, MD, PhD
- Giuseppe Iuppa, MD
- Choon Hyuck Kwon, MD, PhD
- Charles Miller, MD
- Cristiano Quintini, MD
- Teresa Diago Uso, MD
Liver Transplant Hepatology
- Talal Adhami, MD
- William Carey, MD
- Srinivasan Dasarathy, MD
- Vera Hupertz, MD (Pediatrics)
- K.V. Narayanan Menon, MD
- Jamak Modaresi, MD
- Robert O'Shea, MD, MSCE
- Kadakkal Radhakrishnan, MD (Pediatrics)
- Carlos Romero-Marrero, MD
- Jamile Wakim-Fleming, MD
- Nizar Zein, MD
- Saul Kane, MD
- Emily Carey, DO
Liver Transplant Coordinators
Clinical Nurse Manager
- Donna Ferchill, RN, BSN, CCTC
Pre-Transplant Coordinators
- Mohamed Awada, RN, BSN
- Krista Byler, RN, BSN
- Carly Glending, RN, BSN
- Amy McFarlin, RN, BSN
- Nancy Luciano, RN
- Barb Mastroianni RN, MSN
- Christine Panko, RN, BSN, CCTC
- Lori Pulice, RN, BSN, CCTC
- Mary Kay Quinn, RN, MSN
- Natasha Rush, RN, BSN
- Stephanie Winegardner, RN, BSN
Nurse Practitioner:
- Meagan Reynolds, MSN, CNP
Post Liver Transplant Coordinators
- James Filisky, RN, BSN
- Gretchen Garibaldi, RN, BSN
- Morgan Gordon, RN, BSN
- Kathryn Hines, RN, BSN
- Molly Nikolic, RN
- Amanda Pescatrice, RN, BSN
- Tracey Raleigh, RN
- Suzanne Wilkins, RN, BSN
- Tina WIlliams, RN, MSN
Living Donor & Pediatrics
Independent Living Donor Advocate
- Karen Reinhart, MAEd, LSW
Living Liver Donor
- Donna Ferchill, RN, BSN, CCTC
Pediatrics
- James Filinsky, RN, BSN
- Cathleen Tichy-Dreher, APN
Physician Assistants
- April Waby, PA-C
- Karen Kerepesi, PA-C
Liver Transplant Social Work
- Jessica Hoffman, LISW
- Elizabeth Hooley, LISW
- Annette Humberson, LISW
Liver Transplant Patient Financial Advocate
- Eboni Robinson
Research Coordinator
- Shana Maikhor Edelstein
Support Staff
- Maged Argalious, MD (Anesthesiology)
- Jacek Cywinksi, MD (Anesthesiology)
- Robert Helfand, MD (Anesthesiology)
- Samuel Irefin, MD (Anesthesiology)
- Allen Keebler, MD (Anesthesiology)
- Theodore Marks, MD, PhD (Anesthesiology)
- Maurico Perilla, MD(Anesthesiology)
- Mangalakaraipudur Ramachandran, MD (Anesthesiology)
- John Seif, MD (Anesthesiology)
- Claudene Vlah, MD (Anesthesiology)
- Kathy Coffman, MD (Psychiatry and Psychology)
- Eric Cober, MD (Infectious Disease)
- Kyle Brizendine, MD (Infectious Disease)
- Lucileia Teixeira Johnson, MD (Infectious Disease)
- Christine Koval, MD (Infectious Disease)
- Steven Mawhorter, MD (Infectious Disease)
- Cyndee Miranda, MD (Infectious Disease)
- Steven Gordon, MD (Transplant Infectious Disease)
- Sherif Mossad, MD (Transplant Infectious Disease)
- Alan Taege, MD (Transplant Infectious Disease)
