RajaKandaswamyMDMBA

Transplantation

Professor, Surgery, University of Minnesota Medical School

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Office
516 Delaware Street Se Pwb Second Floor Clinic 2a
Ump Transplant Medicine Specialties
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone+1 612-884-0649

Dr. Raja Kandaswamy is a general surgeon based in Minneapolis, MN, with a subspecialty in transplantation. He completed his medical education at Kilpauk Medical College, followed by an internship and residency in surgery at Howard University. Dr. Kandaswamy has expertise in managing conditions such as hypertension, hepatic cirrhosis, morbid obesity, kidney transplantation, and transplant surgery. His research includes publications on bariatric surgery, pancreas transplantation, and posttransplant lymphoproliferative disease. He has been recognized with a CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2012-2013
Fellow (FACS) American College of Surgeons

PubMed

Bariatric surgery prior to pancreas transplantation: a retrospective matched case-control study.
Abraham J Matar, Matthew Wright, Michael Megaly, Michael Dryden, Karthik Ramanathan
Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. 2025-04-01
The Challenge of Minding the Glomerular Filtration Rate Gap Between Pancreas Transplant Alone and Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplantation: Stuck in the Middle.
Sandesh Parajuli, Didier Mandelbrot, Robert J Stratta, Raja Kandaswamy, Ronald F Parsons
Transplantation. 2025-03-25
Nonindexed versus Body Surface Area-Indexed Measured GFR Determinations as a Criterion of Living Donor Acceptance.
Abraham J Matar, Erika S Helgeson, Jesse C Seegmiller, Karthik Ramanathan, Erik B Finger
Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 2025-03-01

Journal Articles

Significant Arterial Complications After Pancreas Transplantation—A Single‐Center Experience and Review of Literature
Jafar Golzarian, Ty B Dunn, Raja Kandaswamy, Erik B Finger, Clinical Transplantation

Veteran of Business and Vietnam War Is Grateful for Gift of LifeSeptember 12th, 2020
Woman Donates Kidney to Firefighter Who Helped Her DaughterMay 20th, 2019
The Gift of a Kidney from a Workmate Makes This a Special Holiday SeasonDecember 1st, 2018