Your Transplant Team at UCH

What you can expect

Every patient and referring physician is assigned a coordinator who will help see you through the transplant process.

This coordinator will help you before, during and after the actual transplant procedure. Along the way, you'll work with whole teams of specialists: physicians, nurses, coordinators, technicians, and more.

The team approach

Transplant patients who arrive at University of Colorado Hospital are often very, very sick. Their survival depends on well-orchestrated care delivered by our highly-skilled experts.

"Continued care" when patients go home

We don't stop caring for our patients when they leave the hospital. Some of our liver transplant patients had their surgeries 20 years ago. We still follow their labs and keep in touch with them. They are, and always will be, our patients.

Dedication. Teamwork. Deep expertise. This combination distinguishes UCH's transplant care from that of other hospitals.

Some of the best-known names in the specialty

Among our transplant team leaders:

Igal Kam, MD

Dr. Kam, transplant surgeon, has been named in 5280 Magazine as one of Denver's Top Doctors for 11 years. He is professor and chief of Transplant Surgery at University of Colorado Denver.

 

See Dr. Kam in "The Race," a liver transplant survivor's story.

Han Myint, MD

Dr. Myint is the director of the Blood & Marrow Transplant program. His areas of clinical interests and expertise are all aspects of bone marrow transplantation, including allogeneic sibling or unrelated donor or cord blood and autologous transplants, all aspects of hematological malignancies, in particular, acute leukemia, chronic leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma. He has a strong interest in teaching and postgraduate medical education.

Frederick L. Grover, MD

Dr. Grover is chair of the surgery department and has been the directing surgeon for the lung transplant program since its beginning in 1991. His work has helped make the UCH Lung Transplant Program one of the tops in the nation.

Martin R. Zamora, MD

Dr. Zamora has been the directing pulmonologist for the lung transplant program since its beginning in 1991 and is a United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) certified lung transplant doctor.

Michael J. Weyant, MD

Dr. Weyant is extensively trained in the techniques of lung transplantation and end stage lung disease. He is very active in both treatment and research relating to lung transplantation. His research interests include clinical and basic science aspexts of lung and esophageal cancer.

Dennis M. Lyu, MD

Dennis M. Lyu, MD trained under Dr. Zamora, lung transplant program director, as a lung transplant pulmonologist and is active in research that supports the excellent care our lung transplant program.