Liza Johannesson MD PhD

Summary

• Dr Liza Johannesson (MD PhD) specializes in obstetrics and gynecology with a special interest in gynecologic oncology and transplantation. She graduated from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Her residency in obstetrics and gynecology was completed at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden, followed by fellowships in gynecologic oncology at Sahlgrenska University Hospital and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia. She started performing research in 2009 on Uterus Transplantation and presented her thesis in 2012. She was a pivotal part of the world pioneering first clinical human trial of Uterus Transplantation that started in Sweden 2012 and so far resulted in 9 live births. Since 2016 she is the Medical Director of Uterus Transplantation at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas which is currently the largest Uterus Transplant program in the world. She is an assistant professor of Surgery at Texas A&M. She is president elect of the U.S. Uterus Transplant Consortium (USUTC) and serves in the Vascular Composite Allograft (VCA) committee for American Society of Transplant Surgery (ASTS).