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Professor of Clinical
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Biography
Rodrigo Vianna, MD, PhD, joined Jackson Health System in 2013 as the director of the Miami Transplant Institute (MTI), a unique affiliation between Jackson Health System and UHealth – University of Miami Health System. He is also MTI’s chief of liver, intestinal, and multivisceral transplant and the Andreas Tzakis Professor of Surgery at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine.
Dr. Vianna began his career as a fellow at Jackson Memorial Hospital and returned to MTI after serving as director of intestinal and multivisceral transplantation at Indiana University School of Medicine, where he helped build the intestinal and liver transplant programs for children and adults.
Dr. Vianna earned his medical degree from the Federal University of Parana and a PhD in gastrointestinal surgery from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. After completing his general and gastrointestinal surgery training in Brazil, Dr. Vianna was selected for two successive fellowships at Jackson, the first in transplant research and the second in clinical transplantation, which he completed in 2003. -
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Within nine years, he had contributed with technical modifications that enabled liver transplants to be performed in less than four hours––half the average time at most centers. He has developed expansion of indication for Intestinal/MVT Transplantation and created the largest intestinal and MVT program for children and adults in the United States for the past 2-3 years, performing more than 100 of the individually customized procedures in the past four years and achieving outstanding outcomes. -
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