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New Transplant Faculty Joins UC New Transplant Fellow
Amit D. Tevar, M.D., has joined the
University of Cincinnati Department
of Surgery in the Division of
Transplant Surgery as Assistant
Professor of Surgery. Dr. Tevar specializes
in kidney, pancreas, and liver
transplantation.
Dr. Tevar received his undergraduate
and medical degree in the combined
BA/MD Program from the
University of Missouri School of
Amit D. Tevar, M.D.
Medicine in Kansas City. He completed
his general surgery residency at the University of Indiana
School of Medicine in Indianapolis. Dr. Tevar completed a fellowship
in Solid Organ Transplant at the University of Chicago
and recently completed a fellowship in Transplantation at the
University of Cincinnati.
Dr. Tevar has engaged in numerous research projects and won the
Specialty Surgery Residents Paper Competition at Indiana
University in 2003 and 2002. His research in "Laparoscopic
Paraesophageal Hernia Repair" led to a presentation at the
Annual Society of Laparoscopic Surgery meeting in 2001. Other
research projects led to presentations at both local and national
meetings. He won the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honors
Medical Society Research Fellowship Award in 1997, awarded
by a National Committee of AOA Directors to 25 students nationally
based on academics and quality of research proposal.
Dr. Tevar is a member of the Indiana State Medical Association
and the Indianapolis Medical Society - Resident Section. He was
a University of Missouri-Kansas City delegate to the Association
of American Medical Colleges. Dr. Tevar has published articles
in peer-reviewed journals.
Dr. Tevar will see patients at the Medical Arts Building. He may
be reached at (513) 558-6001.
Transplant Research Fellow is
Accepted in UC Master of Science
Clinical Research Training Program
Nicole Weimart, Pharm.D., research fellow in the Division of
Transplant Surgery (see at right) was accepted into the Master of
Science in Clinical Research Training Program. She is the first
transplant research fellow trainee to enter Dr. Joel Tsevat’s T30
training program for clinical investigators. The program is committed
to providing trainees an educational program leading to a
promising career in clinical research.
Andreas Karachristos, M.D.,
has joined the Division of
Transplant Surgery as a Fellow.
Dr. Karachristos received a Ph.D.
in Genetics from the University of
Crete in Greece, where he also
received his medical degree. He
also spent one year as Honorary
Research Associate at the
University of Liverpool & Roy Dr. Andreas Karachristos
Castle Institute for Lung Cancer
Research in Liverpool, England. Dr. Karachristos served
his initial residency in general surgery at the University of
Athens, Greece, then moved to the United States and was a
surgical resident at Yale University-New Haven Hospital in
New Haven, Connecticut, and at Temple University
Hospital in Philadelphia.
Transplant Research Fellows
The Division of Transplant
Surgery welcomes three new
Research Fellows.
Anastasia (Stacey) Balducci,
Pharm.D., received her Doctor of
Pharmacy degree from the
Medical University of South
Carolina in Charleston. She
served her General Pharmacy
Practice Residency at New York-
Presbyterian Hospital and the
University Hospital of Columbia
and Cornell in New York, NY.
Jennifer Walker, Pharm.D.,
received her Doctor of Pharmacy
degree from Ferris State
University in Big Rapids, MI. She
served her Pharmacy Practice
Residency at Northwestern
Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL.
Nicole Weimart, Pharm.D.,
received her Doctor of Pharmacy
degree from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison School of
Pharmacy. She served her
Pharmacy Practice Residency and
Critical Care Specialty Residency
at the Medical University of South
Carolina, Charleston, SC. [Also
see story at left.]
Stacey Balducci, PharmD
Jennifer Walker, PharmD
Nicole Wiemart, PharmD