Pancreas
Meet The Team
The Texas Transplant Institute's multi-disciplinary team approach to patient care includes highly skilled physicians, advanced practice nurses, transplant coordinators, dietitians, social workers, pharmacists, and other caregivers dedicated to the care of transplant candidates, recipients, and donors. The patient and their referring physician is an integral part of the transplant team as well. |
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Francis H. Wright, Jr., MD |
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Steven G. Rosenblatt, MD, FACP, FASN Medical Director, Pancreas Transplant Program, Texas Transplant Institute Dr. Rosenblatt is an independent practitioner with the San Antonio Kidney Disease Center Physician Group in San Antonio, and has been a member of the kidney transplant team at Texas Transplant Institute since its inception in 1994. Dr. Rosenblatt received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Vanderbilt University, and a medical degree from Cornell Medical College. He served his internship and residency at UCLA Hospital in Los Angeles and the Bexar County Hospital District in San Antonio. He then spent two years in the United States Air Force as a Flight Surgeon, and went on to complete a fellowship in nephrology with the Bexar County Hospital District, and is a current Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Dr. Rosenblatt is board certified in internal medicine and nephrology, and is a fellow of the American Society of Nephrology and the American College of Physicians. |
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Juan Palma-Vargas, MD Abdominal Transplant Surgeon, Liver and Kidney Transplant Programs, Texas Transplant Institute Dr. Palma-Vargas graduated from the University of Guadalajara, Mexico with a Bachelor of Science in Biology, and obtained his medical degree at the Autonomous University of Guadalajara. Dr. Palma trained in general surgery at the Maine Medical Center, and completed a research fellowship in kidney transplantation at the Michigan Transplant Institute at Michigan State University, and a fellowship in abdominal organ transplantation at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Palma is trained in liver, kidney and pancreas transplantations and performs live donor nephrectomies as well as complex hepatobiliary surgery. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery, is a member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and the Mexican Society of General Surgery. Dr. Palma is an independent practitioner with Texas Transplant Physician Group. |
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Adam W. Bingaman, MD, PhD Abdominal Transplant Surgeon, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Programs, Texas Transplant Institute Dr. Bingaman graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry, received his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine and then went on to complete his general surgery residency training at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. During his residency he earned a Doctorate of Philosophy. in immunology from Emory University Graduate School of Biological Sciences, where his research focused on how the immune system rejects transplanted tissues. He then went on to complete his fellowship training in kidney and pancreas transplantation surgery at the University of Maryland. Prior to joining Texas Transplant Institute, Dr. Bingaman was Assistant Professor of Surgery at Medical College of Georgia, and University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio. He is board certified by the American Board of Surgery, is a member of the American College of Surgeons, and has published extensively in the field of transplantation immunology. Dr. Bingaman is an independent practitioner with Texas Transplant Physician Group. |
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Matthias H. Kapturczak, MD, PhD Transplant Nephrologist Kidney Transplant Program, Texas Transplant Institute Dr. Kapturczak is an independent practitioner with the San Antonio Kidney Disease Center Physician Group in San Antonio, and has been a member of the kidney transplant team at Texas Transplant Institute since 2007. Dr. Kapturczak obtained both his medical degree as well as doctorate in biochemistry and physiology at the Free University of Berlin Medical School in Berlin, Germany. He completed a residency in internal medicine at the C.G. Carus Technical University of Dresden in Germany in 1995, and also at the University of Florida Gainesville in 1999. In 2003, Dr. Kapturczak completed his fellowship in nephrology at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Prior to relocating to San Antonio in 2007, Dr. Kapturczak served as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Surgery and a transplant nephrologist in the Division of Nephrology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. During his academic career, he published multiple manuscripts in the field of immunology of transplant rejection and autoimmunity. Dr. Kapturczak is board certified in Internal Medicine and Nephrology, and is a member of the American Society of Transplantation, the American Society of Nephrology and other major professional organizations. |
Pancreas Clinic Staff
| Clinical Director Linda McFarlin, RN, BSN, MAM Clinic Supervisor Lisa Presley, RN, BSN Outreach Coordinator Kim Chaffin, RN |
Transplant Coordinators Corina Esparza, RN, BSN Dana Richardson, RN, BSN Debbie Smith, RN, BSN Diana DeLua, RN Diane Tarpey, RN Juan Martinez, RN Maura Kapp, RN, BSN Ruby Benavides, RN Tina Martenson, RN Social Workers Arturo Rodriguez, LMSW Monica Trevino, LMSW Vivian Holmes, LCSW |