Heart and Lung Transplant National Recovery Program

Surgeons

Samuel Jacob, MD. FRCS FACS

Chief Executive Officer &
Chief Of Surgical Operations.
Former associate professor and clinical research director at Heart and Lung Transplant, Mayo Clinic Florida .

Donald Botta MD. FACS

Current Chief Medical Officer at Life Changing Medical Technologies. Former director of cardiac transplantation and mechanical circulatory support, Yale University, and Advent Health Orlando. Former Navy flight surgeon with combat flight experience.

Chawannuch Ruaengsri , MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery, Heart and Lung Transplant program, division of cardiothoracic surgery. Stanford University



Mattias Loebe, MD. PhD.
FCCP FACC

Former Professor and Chief of heart and lung transplant and mechanical support at the Miami Transplant Institute, Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, and Weill Cornell Medical College in New York.

Raymond Vetsch, MD. FACS FACC FCC

Former Chief of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at Freeman Health System and former professor of surgery, Joplin, MO. Co-founder and  director Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Program at Presbyterian Health.

James Gramm , MD. FACS

Heart and Lung transplant recovery surgeon, Former Cardiothoracic and Transplant Surgeon  and Assistant Professor at Loyola University Chicago.

Brian Kogon , MD.

Former chief of pediatric cardiothoracic surgery at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and director of adult congenital cardiac surgery at Emory University Hospital

Gopal Singh , MD.

Heartand Lung Procurement Surgeon, former  cardiothoracic procurement surgeon at Colombia University,  Mount Sinai Hospital and Transmedics