Pediatric Transplant Team

• Heidi Yeh, MD

  • Surgical Director, Pediatric Abdominal Transplant, Mass General for Children
• Nahel Elias, MD

  • Surgical Director, Kidney Transplantation, Mass General Hospital
  • Chair of Quality Improvement, Transplant Center
  • Operations Director, Legorreta Center for Clinical Transplant Tolerance
• Shoko Kimura, MD

  • Transplant Surgeon

• Nanda Kerkar, MBBS, MD

  • Medical Director, Pediatric Section Chief Pediatric Liver and Liver Transplantation
  • Medical Director, Hepatobiliary Program
  • Director, Pediatric Liver and Biliary Disease Center
• Kayla Hartjes, MD

  • Assistant Director, Pediatric Liver Transplant Program, Mass General for Children
• Esther Israel, MD

  • Associate Unit Chief, Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition and Quality Chair, Pediatrics, Mass General for Children
  • Chief, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Newton-Wellesley Hospital
• Eric Hazen, MD

  • Director, Pediatric Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison Service
• Lakshmi Ganapathi, MD

  • Transplant Infectious Diseases
• Ann Murray, MD

  • Transplant Infectious Diseases

Liver Transplant Multidisciplinary Care Team

• Rachel Ritter, MSN, RN – Pre-Transplant Nurse Coordinator
• Barbara Luby, LISCW – Transplant Social Worker
• Simona Lourekas, MS, RD, CSP, LDN, CHES – Transplant Nutritionist
• Randee Rubenstein, RN – Pediatric Hepatology Nurse
• Maureen Larochelle, RN – Pediatric Hepatology Nurse
• Omayra Blackmon – Pediatric Administrative Coordinator
• Caitlyn Keish – Transplant Patient Services Coordinator