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Cleveland Clinic Florida ASTS Kidney Transplant Fellowship
Weston, FL
Two-year kidney transplant fellowship in Weston covering recipient and living donor evaluation, deceased donor procurement, back-table preparation and organ preservation, donor and recipient operations, and inpatient and outpatient post-transplant care.
Length2 years
Spots1 fellow per year
Salary2026-27 GME scale runs from $69,106 (PGY 1) to $91,657 (PGY 9); fellow PGY level not stated
ASTS/TACC accredited (kidney), valid through June 30, 2029
What stands out
- Exposure to combined heart-kidney and liver-kidney transplants
- Optional participation in urologic, hepatobiliary or liver transplant cases
- Tissue typing and histocompatibility education conference in the curriculum
- Program lead
- Antonio Pinna
- Apply through
- ASTS Match (SF Match)
- Focus
- Kidney transplantation, living donor nephrectomy, deceased donor procurement, organ perfusion and preservation
- Eligibility
- Not statedUSMLE: not statedVisa: not stated
- Contact
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Training
- Structure
- 24 months; ASTS online modules completed during the fellowship; surgical logs and milestone forms submitted bi-annually
- Research
- IRB-governed clinical research throughout both years, with a transplant-specific database and biostatistics help; fellows encouraged to present and write manuscripts
- Case numbers
- 150 to 200 kidney transplants per year (program)
- Hospital
- Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston
- Faculty
- Eduardo Fernandes, Nicolas Muruve, Alvin Wee, Charles Miller
Requirements (4)
- Urology residency graduates eligible (stated on program page)
- Page text: "All applicants must have completed a residency in urology or general surgery."
- Apply through the SF Match website
- One fellow appointed per year