With five female transplant surgeons, Baylor Annette C. and Harold C. Simmons Transplant Institute in Dallas/Fort Worth, TX boasts the largest group of women transplant surgeons at a single transplant program. These women also hold leadership positions within the diverse abdominal transplant surgery team.

Johanna Bayer, MD, FACS was recently appointed surgical director of transplantation at Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center – Fort Worth. She is the first female director of transplantation in the history of the Baylor Simmons Transplant Institute.

Hoylan Fernandez, MD, MPH, FACS is a multi-organ abdominal transplant and hepatobiliary surgeon and the Chief of Hepatobiliary Surgery at Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center – Fort Worth.

Although women now make up more than half of medical school graduates, surgery is still predominately male dominated. According to estimates, women make up only 10-15% of surgeons in the specialized field of transplant surgery.

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