Dr. Frederick Bentley, M.D., is vice chairman of the Department of Surgery at UAMS and a transplant surgeon, dealing specifically with liver, kidney and pancreas transplants. A graduate of Centenary College in Shreveport, La., Bentley received his medical degree in 1977 from Louisiana State University Medical Center in New Orleans, where he interned in general surgery and served as chief administrative resident in general surgery.
After two fellowships at the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis, he was appointed assistant clinical medical director of Charity Hospital in New Orleans. He served as an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Maryland chief of Organ Transplant Services at University of Maryland Hospital from 1984 to 1986. He left the Department of Surgery at the University of Louisville, where he was an associate professor of surgery, to become medical director of the Jewish Hospital transplant program in 1993, a position he held until he came to UAMS in 2006. Certified by the American Board of Surgery, Bentley belongs to the American College of Surgeons, the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and the Association of Academic Surgery.
Youmin Wu, M.D.
Wu has performed more than 800 liver transplants and has over 22 years of experience in hepatobiliary surgery. He holds world records in liver transplantation, including performing a successful transplant on the youngest andsmallest
recipient, a 19-day-old baby. Wu also performed a transplant on the oldest recipient with the longest survival, and on a patient who received a liver from the oldest donor and has had the longest survival.
He has established liver transplant programs in his native China and in Iowa, as well as at UAMS.
Wu graduated from Nanjing Medical University in China in 1982. He completed transplant research and clinical fellowships at the University of Pittsburg Medical Center (UPMC) under the mentorship of Dr. Thomas Starzl, the “father of liver transplantation,” and then joined the faculty at UPMC. In 1993 he was recruited to the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics, where he served as a transplant surgeon for 11 years before coming to UAMS in August 2004 to develop the liver transplant program and direct the Multi-Organ Transplant Program.
Gary Barone, M.D.
Gary Barone, M.D., is a transplant surgeon and clinical director of the Kidney and
Pancreas Transplant Program. Also an
associate professor of vascular and transplant surgery, Barone received his medical degree from Howard University College of Medicine in 1981. He completed residencies in general surgery at the University of Virginia in 1987, in vascular surgery at UAMS in 1989, and in transplantation at Ohio State University in 1991. Barone has been at UAMS since 1991 and is board certified in general surgery, vascular surgery and surgical critical care.
Harmon Gareth Tobler, M.D.
Harmon Gareth Tobler, M.D., F.A.C.S.,
is the UAMS Heart Transplant Program’s surgical director. A veteran of more than 130 transplant surgeries, he first joined the UAMS staff in 1990 and was instrumental in helping to develop heart transplantation in Arkansas.
Tobler received his medical doctorate from the University of Utah College of Medicine and trained in surgery at the University of Minnesota. He trained in cardiothoracic surgery at Stanford
University, where heart transplantation was pioneered. Tobler is an assistant professor of surgery in the
UAMS College of Medicine.
For liver, kidney, or kidney/pancreas transplant consultations, please call (800) 552-8026 or (501) 686-6644.
Send fax transmissions to:
kidney/pancreas
(501) 686-5725.
liver (501) 686-5215
For heart failure and heart transplant consultations, please call (501) 686-5220.
Appointment response within one week of physician reviewing medical records and confirmation of insurance. Referrals require pertinent medical records, including demographics and insurance information.
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Harmon Gareth Tobler, M.D.