Congratulations to Ali Zarrinpar, M.D., Ph.D., a professor in the Division of Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery, on being named the recipient of the 2026 Basic Science Established Investigator Award (Senior Career) from the International Liver Transplantation Society! The prestigious award, designed to honor society members who have made…
On a sunny December afternoon in a room high atop the UF Health Heart and Vascular Hospital, overlooking the University of Florida campus, six people whose lives are now intertwined forever met for the first time. …
Allen Korson went from a kidney stone ailment to needing a multiorgan transplant, both lungs and a liver, one of the rarest procedures performed in the United States due to its complexity. UF Health’s lung transplant team, shown performing a procedure in a 2019 photo, has one of the…
Ali Zarrinpar, M.D., Ph.D. Ali Zarrinpar, M.D., Ph.D., has joined the division of transplantation surgery in the University of Florida College of Medicine as an associate professor. Zarrinpar earned his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco, where he…
UF Health Shands Hospital’s kidney transplant program has demonstrated favorable outcomes, according to a recent report from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, or SRTR. The results, released in January by SRTR, a database operated by the Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation that analyzes organ transplantation nationwide, measured transplant outcomes over…
Elizabeth Thomas, D.O. Elizabeth Thomas, D.O., earned her osteopathic medical degree from the Midwestern University’s College of Osteopathy in Glendale, Arizona and completed her surgical residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. Prior to joining UF, she completed an abdominal transplant and hepatobiliary…
