Honoring Baylor Scott & White Uterus Transplant Team
For women with absolute uterine factor infertility, the uterus transplant program at Baylor University Medical Center, part of Baylor Scott & White Health offers this life-changing moment by providing a solution to infertility due to the absence of a uterus.
Baylor University Medical Center is the first transplant program in the world to offer uterus transplants outside of a clinical trial.
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The uterus transplant program in Dallas is the only program in the United States to deliver babies using uteri from both living and deceased donors and the first uterus transplant program in the nation to successfully deliver two babies from one transplanted uterus.
Giuliano Testa, MD, MBA, FACS, is chief of abdominal transplantation at Baylor University Medical Center, part of Baylor Scott & White Health and chairman of the Annette C. and Harold C. Simmons Transplant Institute.
He specializes in living donor liver transplantation and is the principal investigator of the Uterine Transplant Clinical Trial that resulted in the first U.S. birth of a baby following uterine transplant. Dr. Testa was honored in 2018 as one of TIME Magazine's Top 100 for leading the medical team that performed the first successful uterus transplants in the nation.
Dr. Testa returned to Baylor University Medical Center in 2011 to lead the living donor liver program. He became chief of abdominal transplant for the Annette C. and Harold C. Simmons Transplant Institute in 2017.
Dr. Testa is author or co-author of more than 200 publications and several book chapters. He is a recognized authority in Uterus Transplantation and Living Donor Liver Transplantation. His other interests include complex liver surgery of benign and malignant diseases.
Liza Johannesson, M.D., Ph.D., is the medical director of the uterus transplant program at Baylor University Medical Center, part of Baylor Scott & White Health. Dr. Johannesson is a graduate of the Karolinska Institute, Sweden. She completed training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden, followed by training in gynecologic oncology at Sahlgrenska University
Hospital and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia.
Her PhD thesis about Uterus Transplantation in primates in 2012 was a pivotal part of the world pioneering first clinical human trial of Uterus Transplantation in Sweden that resulted in the first birth after Uterus Transplantation in the world.
In 2017, she was recruited to Baylor University Medical Center to build up a new Uterus Transplant Program. The program resulted in the first birth after Uterus Transplant in the US in 2017 and today the world’s largest and most successful Uterus Transplant program. Dr. Johannesson also serves an Associate Professor of Surgery at Texas A&M University College of Medicine, Rush University (Chicago) and Texas Christian University (TCU) School of Medicine.
Dr. Johannesson is actively involved in the US Uterus Transplant Consortium (USUTC) where she is the current
president; She is a Founding Member of both the International Society of Uterus Transplantation (ISUTX) and the USUTC. Dr. Johannesson is an active researcher with more than 100 publications and
is invited to lecture worldwide on current issues in the field of Uterus Transplantation.
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