Liver and Kidney Transplant Service

The purpose of this partnership is to increase access to life-saving transplant services for Veterans and to ensure excellent clinical outcomes. Transplant surgery and immediate post-surgical care will occur at our partnering institution, MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, in close collaboration with your VA health care team. Washington DC VA Medical Center will continue to provide care to the Veteran before, during and after a transplant. 

Our mission is to increase awareness of liver and kidney disease as well as transplant options for Veterans, to include living donation.

MedStar Georgetown University Transplant Institute, or MGTI, has provided successful transplant services for many years in Washington D.C., Maryland and Virginia. 

MGTI ranks among the top 5 percent of all US programs in the number of kidney transplants performed every year and is a Center of Excellence for the National Kidney Registry (NKR), increasing access to living donation. The NKR is a national registry of approved living donor candidates and kidney transplant recipients. 

MGTI provides liver transplant with the highest-rated outcomes in the region. Surgical techniques at MGTI are cutting-edge and include living donor liver transplant, laparoscopic liver resection and transplant and split-liver transplant.  MGTI patients have liver transplant wait times among the lowest in the country. 

Through this partnership, Veterans will have access to an experienced, multidisciplinary team of specialists with the latest diagnostic tools and medical and surgical treatment options at a convenient, local facility.   

Veterans with chronic kidney disease or advanced liver disease can be considered for transplant evaluation if deemed appropriate by their physician. 

You can reach out directly to the Washington DC VA Medical Center Transplant team to learn more about eligibility, transplant services available, pre- and post-surgical care and more. 

Transplant Program Physicians:

Transplant Hepatology

Jessica P. E. Davis, MD

Atoosa Rabiee, MD

Transplant Nephrology

Sharon Bennett, MD

Samir Patel, MD

Liver transplant coordinators:

Carole Daley, RN, 202-745-8000, ext. 57413

Crystal Fitzhugh, RN, 202-745-8000, ext. 56709

Kidney transplant coordinators:

Wendy Braxton, RN  202-745-8000, ext. 54261

Kristine Trota, RN 202-745-8000, ext. 54260

For general inquiries or to schedule an appointment, contact the medical advice line at 202-745-CARE (2273).