Dev Desai, M.D., Ph.D.
Program Director - Transplant Surgery Fellowship, UT Southwestern Medical Center; Chief, Pediatric Transplantation - Children's Medical Center Dallas
Professor
Endowed Title Distinguished Scholar in Medical Research
Department Surgery | Pediatrics
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Biography
Dr. Desai is a general and transplant surgeon specializing in liver, kidney, pancreas and intestinal transplantation, as well as open and laparoscopic hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, portal hypertensive vascular decompression procedures and laparoscopic donor nephrectomy. Dr. Desai is also head of pediatric abdominal transplantation at Children’s Medical Center.
Education
- Graduate School
- University of California at San Francisco (1994)
- Other Post Graduate Training
- University of California at San Francisco (1994)
- Medical School
- University of California at San Francisco (1995)
- Internship
- Stanford University Hospital (1996), General Surgery
- Residency
- Stanford University Hospital (1997), General Surgery
- Research Fellowship
- Stanford University Hospital (1998), General Surgery
- Residency
- Stanford University Hospital (2001), General Surgery
- Fellowship
- Stanford University Hospital (2003), Transplant Surgery
Publications
Featured Publications
- Management of sensitized pediatric patients prior to renal transplantation.
- Pirojsakul K, Desai D, Lacelle C, Seikaly MG Pediatr. Nephrol. 2016 Jan
- Antegrade retrieval of double J stents with capture of the bladder end in three young children.
- Koral K, Desai D, Gargollo P, Snodgrass W Clin Imaging 2012 Sep-Oct 36 5 626-8
- Glycogen storage disease type III diagnosis and management guidelines.
- Kishnani PS, Austin SL, Arn P, Bali DS, Boney A, Case LE, Chung WK, Desai DM, El-Gharbawy A, Haller R, Smit GP, Smith AD, Hobson-Webb LD, Wechsler SB, Weinstein DA, Watson MS Genet. Med. 2010 Jul 12 7 446-63
- Liver transplantation for glycogen storage disease type Ia.
- Reddy SK, Austin SL, Spencer-Manzon M, Koeberl DD, Clary BM, Desai DM, Smith AD, Kishnani PS J. Hepatol. 2009 Sep 51 3 483-90
- Liver Transplantation
- Desai, Esquivel Anesthesiologist’s Manual of Surgical Procedures, 3rd Ed 2003 Lippincott Williams Wilki
Honors & Awards
- American College of Surgeons
Leadership Program in Health Policy and Management (2017) - American College of Surgeons
Faculty Research Fellowship Grant (2006) - ASTS-Novartis
Fellowship in Transplantation (2001) - Stanford University School of Medicine
John Henry Smith Award (2000)
Professional Associations/Affiliations
- American Board of Surgery (2016)
- American College of Surgeons
- American Society of Transplant Surgeons
- International Pediatric Transplant Association
- Society of University Surgeons
- United Network of Organ Sharing