MUSC Transplant Center Physicians


Fuad Afzal, M.D.
Clinical Instructor of Medicine
Year of Birth: 1965
Degree: MBBS awarded by Punjab University of Lahore, Pakistan, 1990; M.D. awarded by Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates
Residency: McKeesport Hospital, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Fellowship: Medical University of South Carolina
Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, 1998; Nephrology, 2000
Special Interests: Transplant nephrology


Prabhakar K. Baliga, M.D.
Professor of Surgery
Director, Division of Transplant Surgery
Year of Birth: 1960
Degree: M.D. awarded by Madras Medical College, India, 1982
Residency: Tulane University
Fellowship: University of Michigan
Certification: American Board of Surgery, 1991; Critical Care, 1993
Special Interests: Liver, kidney and small bowel transplantation, biliary reconstruction and hepatic resection, pediatric transplant surgery


Scott M. Bradley, M.D
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Year of Birth: 1958
Degree: M.D. awarded by Harvard Medical School, 1985
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital; University of Michigan
Fellowship: University of California at San Francisco, University of Michigan
Certification: American Board of Surgery, 1993
Special Interests: Pediatric cardiac surgery


Kenneth D. Chavin, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Year of Birth: 1961
Degree: M.D. awarded by Temple University School of Medicine, 1987; Ph.D. awarded by Medical University of South Carolina, 1993
Internship: The Graduate Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa. Medical University of South Carolina
Residency: Medical University of South Carolina
Fellowship: Johns Hopkins Hospital
Certification: American Board of Surgery, 1997
Special Interests: Liver, kidney, pancreas and small bowel transplantation, hepatobiliary surgery, laparoscopic donor nephrectomy, general surgery in renal failure and liver failure patients


A. Jackson Crumbley III, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Chief, Thoracic Organ Transplantation Service
Year of Birth: 1948
Degree: M.D. awarded by Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., 1974
Residency: Duke University; University of Minnesota
Fellowship: University of Minnesota
Certification: American Board of Surgery, 1985, 1994; Thoracic Surgery, 1987; Special Qualification in Critical Care Medicine, 1994
Special Interests: Cardiac transplantation, adult cardiac surgery, pediatric transplant surgery


Debra Frei-Lahr, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Year of Birth: 1953
Degree: M.D. awarded by University of Chicago, Pritzker, 1979
Residency: University of Alabama, Birmingham
Fellowship: University of Alabama, Birmingham; University of Minnesota
Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, 1982; Medical Oncology, 1985; Hematology, 1988
Special Interests: Bone marrow transplantation


John S. Ikonomidis, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Year of Birth: 1965
Degree: M.D. awarded by University of Toronto, 1989; Ph.D. awarded by University of Toronto, 1995
Residency: University of Toronto; Stanford University
Fellowship: University of Toronto
Certification: Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, General Surgery, 1997; American Board of Surgery, 1998; Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2000
Special Interests: Thoracic aortic surgery, cardiac valve surgery, cardiac transplantation


Jacqueline M. Kraveka, D.O.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Year of Birth: 1966
Degree: D.O. awarded by Nova Southeastern University, 1994
Residency: Miami Children's Hospital
Fellowship: Medical University of South Carolina
Certification: American Board of Pediatrics, 1997; Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, 2000
Special Interests: Pediatric oncology, research in neuroblastoma, the regulation of telomerase activity


Angello Lin, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Year of Birth: 1965
Degree: M.D. awarded by Emory University, 1992
Residency: Emory University
Fellowship: Emory University
Certification: American Board of Surgery, 1999; ASTS - Fellow of Transplantation, 2000
Special Interests: Multi-visceral organ transplant, liver, tumors, transplant immunology


Robert Mallin, M.D.
Associate Professor of Family Medicine
Year of Birth: 1949
Degree: M.D. awarded by University of South Carolina School of Medicine, 1981
Residency: Richland Memorial Hospital, Columbia, South Carolina
Certification: American Board of Family Practice, 1988; American Society of Addiction Medicine, 1998
Special Interests: Medical education, health education, addiction medicine


John K. Orak, M.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Pediatric Nephrology
Year of Birth: 1951
Degree: M.D. awarded by George Washington University, 1977
Residency: University of Florida
Fellowship: University of Florida
Certification: American Board of Pediatrics, 1982; Pediatric Nephrology, 1983
Special Interests: End-stage renal disease, organ preservation, free radicals in renal ischemia, pediatric nephrology


Naveen L. Pereira, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Year of Birth: 1967
Degree: M.D. awarded by University of Bombay, India, 1991
Residency: University of Connecticut Health Center
Fellowship: Brown University School of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard School of Medicine
Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, 1995; Cardiovascular Disease, 1998
Special Interests: Congestive heart failure, cardiac transplantation, pulmonary hypertension, cardiac sarcoidosis, pericardial diseases, infiltrative cardiomyopathy, cardiology


P. R. Rajagopalan, M.D.
Professor of Surgery
Year of Birth: 1940
Degree: M.D. awarded by University of Mysore, India, 1964
Residency: Richland Memorial Hospital
Fellowship: Transplant Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina
Certification: American Board of Surgery, 1975
Special Interests: Transplantation, surgery in patients with chronic renal disease, vascular access for hemodialysis, acute renal failure, renovascular hypertension, pediatric transplant surgery


Jeremy M. Ringewald, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Co-Director, Pediatric Cardiac Cath Lab
Year of Birth: 1969
Degree: M.D. awarded by University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, 1994
Residency: Rainbow Babies and Childrens Hospital, Case Western Reserve University
Fellowship: Children's Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University
Certification: American Board of Pediatrics, 1997; Pediatric Cardiology, 2002


Jeffrey Rogers, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Year of Birth: 1964
Degree: M.D. awarded by Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1990
Residency: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center
Fellowship: Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute
Certification: American Board of Surgery, 1997
Special Interests: Liver, kidney, pancreas and small bowel transplantation, hepatobiliary surgery, general surgery in liver failure and real failure patients


Robert K. Stuart, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Year of Birth: 1948
Degree: M.D. awarded by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1974
Residency: Johns Hopkins Hospital
Fellowship: Johns Hopkins Oncology Center; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, 1977; Medical Oncology, 1978; Hematology, 1986
Special Interests: Bone marrow transplantation, hematological malignancies, general oncology


Adrian B. VanBakel, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Year of Birth: 1955
Degree: M.D. awarded by University of Louisville, 1981;
Ph.D. awarded by University of Louisville, 1983
Residency: Medical University of South Carolina
Fellowship: Medical University of South Carolina
Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, 1986; Cardiovascular Disease, 1993
Special Interests: Congestive heart failure, cardiac transplantation, cardiology


Ira R. Willner, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Year of Birth: 1966
Degree: M.D. awarded by State University of New York Health Science Center at Syracuse, 1990
Residency: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Fellowship: New York Medical College; University of Tennessee
Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, 1993; Gatroenterology, 1995
Special Interests: Liver disease, treatment of portal hypertension, viral hepatitis


Dannah W. Wray, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Year of Birth: 1962
Degree: M.D. awarded by Duke University, 1993
Residency: Duke University
Fellowship: Duke University
Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, 2000; Infectious Diseases
Special Interests: Adult and pediatric infectious diseases