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Yolanda T. Becker

  • Title: Professor of Surgery; Director of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation
  • Education: MD, John Hopkins University
  • Joined UChciago Medicine faculty: 2010
  • ybecker@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu

Yolanda T. Becker

Yolanda T. Becker, MD, is a transplant surgeon specializing in kidney and pancreas transplantation and living-donor procedures. She is widely known for her clinical research on reducing transplant rejection rates and her basic research in immunology. Dr. Becker is a featured speaker at medical conferences across the globe, and a recognized leader in the field of transplantation. 

Also a respected physician scientist, Dr. Becker is widely known for her clinical research on reducing transplant rejection rates and her basic research in immunology. She has authored more than 100 scientific articles and abstracts in publications, such as the American Journal of TransplantationTransplantation and Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation.

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Organ transplantation