Our Team

For 35 years, the physicians at the University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital have provided treatment for the most complex medical problems facing children. Each year, our compassionate pediatric specialists treat more than 4,700 infants and children.

Children who have transplants here receive care from an experienced team that includes transplant surgeons, pediatric specialists, specially trained nurses, dietitians, social workers, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals.

Our team helps families along every step of the way: from diagnosis and pre-transplant testing and counseling to your child's transplant surgery and recovery.

Heart Transplants

Valluvan Jeevanandam, MD
Professor of Surgery
Chief, Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery

Bassem N. Mora, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery

Kidney Transplants

Christopher Clardy, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Section Chief, Pediatric Nephrology

Robert Harland, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery and Medicine
Director, Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation

Liver Transplants

Ruba Azzam, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

J. Michael Millis, MD
Professor of Surgery
Chief, Section of Transplantation

Giuliano Testa, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Director, Liver Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery