YolandaTBeckerMDFACS, FAST(She/Her)
General Surgery • Houston, TXTransplantation
Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
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Office
2510 Westridge Street
Houston, TX 77054Phone+1 713-523-4438Fax+1 713-737-8100
Education & Training
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterResidency, Surgery, 1990 - 1997
Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineClass of 1990
Certifications & Licensure
TX State Medical License 2024 - 2026
LA State Medical License 1990 - 2025
IL State Medical License 2010 - 2023
WI State Medical License 1997 - 2021
TN State Medical License 1993 - 2004
American Board of Surgery Surgery
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- America's Top Doctors Castle Connolly, 2012-2014
- Chicago Magazine: Top Doctors Castle Connolly, 2012, 2014
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2012
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Clinical Trials
- Rituximab Desensitization Therapy for Patients on the Waiting List for Kidney Transplant Start of enrollment: 2005 Jul 01
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- The Seattle Heart Failure Model in Kidney Transplant Recipients.Angelica Perez-Gutierrez, Rita L McGill, Braden Juengel, Piotr J Bachul, David N Danz
Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2023-12-11 - 18 citationsChallenges in the management of the kidney allograft: from decline to failure: conclusions from a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Controversies Confe...Michelle A Josephson, Yolanda Becker, Klemens Budde, Bertram L Kasiske, Bryce A Kiberd
Kidney International. 2023-12-01 - 4 citationsPhysician Preferences when Selecting Candidates for Lower-Quality Kidney Offers.Juan M Gonzalez Sepulveda, Sanjay Mehrotra, Jui-Chen Yang, Karolina J Schantz, Yolanda Becker
Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 2023-12-01
Press Mentions
Former Surgeon Resigns National Academies Panel Post Amid Conflict of Interest InquiriesSeptember 20th, 2021
UChicago Medicine Performs Historic Back-to-Back Triple-Organ TransplantsJanuary 4th, 2019
Why Kidney Transplants Are Harder to GetJanuary 26th, 2016
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