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Office
550 N University Blvd
4258
Indianapolis, IN 46202Phone+1 317-944-4370Fax+1 317-278-3268
Summary
- Dr. Jonathan Fridell’s area of clinical practice is pancreas transplantation, either with a kidney transplant or alone, for patients with Type 1 diabetes with hypoglycemic unawareness.
He is the chief of abdominal transplantation and surgical director of the IU Health pancreas transplant program in Indianapolis, one of the highest volume programs in the country since 2007. He joined the Indiana University School of Medicine in 2002 where he is a professor of surgery. Dr. Fridell has been involved in the growth of the pancreas and liver transplant programs and helped initiate the intestine/multivisceral transplant program at IU Health.
Dr. Fridell is a native of Montreal, Canada, where he received his MD degree and surgical training at McGill University. He completed a transplant surgery fellowship at the Thomas E. Starzl Transplant Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Fridell’s expertise and research interests include pancreas and liver transplantation. As a leader in his field, he is past chair of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) Pancreas Transplant Committee as well as associate editor of the American Journal of Transplantation and deputy editor of Clinical Transplantation.
Education & Training
- McGill University Faculty of MedicineClass of 1994
Certifications & Licensure
- IN State Medical License 2002 - 2025
- PA State Medical License 2001 - 2002
- American Board of Surgery Surgery
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Indianapolis Monthly Castle Connolly, 2013
- Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare Marquis Whos Who
- Fellow (FACS) American College of Surgeons
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 19 citationsComparison of methods of providing analgesia after pancreas transplant: IV opioid analgesia versus transversus abdominis plane block with liposomal bupivacaine or cont...Yar Luan Yeap, Jonathan A. Fridell, Derrick Wu, Richard S. Mangus, Elizabeth Kroepfl
Clinical Transplantation. 2019-06-01 - 83 citationsMultivisceral transplantation for diffuse portomesenteric thrombosis.Rodrigo Vianna, Richard S. Mangus, Chandrashekhar A. Kubal, Jonathan A. Fridell, Thiago Beduschi
Annals of Surgery. 2012-06-01 - 17 citationsCAD-LT score effectively predicts risk of significant coronary artery disease in liver transplant candidatesRayan Jo Rachwan, Issa Kutkut, Lava Timsina, Rody G Bou Chaaya, Edward A. El-Am
Journal of Hepatology. 2021-07-01
Journal Articles
- C‐Peptide Levels Do Not Correlate with Pancreas Allograft Failure: Multicenter Retrospective Analysis and Discussion of the New OPTN Definition of Pancreas Allograft F...Jonathan A Fridell, Jonathan S Fisher, Silke V Niederhaus, Muhammad A Mujtaba, Jon S Odorico, Ty B Dunn, American journal of transplantation
- Impact of Variant Donor Hepatic Arterial Anatomy on Clinical Graft Outcomes in Liver TransplantationJonathan A Fridell, Richard S Mangus, Joel R Schroering, Chandrashekhar A Kubal, Liver transplantation
Press Mentions
- Living Donors Celebrated for Selfless Acts of CompassionSeptember 23rd, 2022
- IU Health Celebrates Transplant Success with Creative FlairNovember 8th, 2019
- Hospital Systems Fight for Pre-Eminence in Transplant FieldJanuary 28th, 2017
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