Amanda L. Cantor, MD

Dr. Jennifer M. McLeod is a specialist in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology, affiliated with NewYork-Presbyterian hospitals, including Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medical Center. Her expertise encompasses a wide range of cardiovascular conditions, including cardiomyopathy, pulmonary hypertension, and heart transplantation. Located in Fresh Meadows and Flushing, NY, Dr. McLeod provides comprehensive care for patients dealing with complex heart issues. She is board-certified in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology, as well as Cardiovascular Disease and Internal Medicine. Generated from the website

Ningxin Wan, MD, is a cardiologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Medical Group Queens and an assistant professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. She sees patients at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens and Weill Cornell Medical Center. Dr. Wan is a member of the American College of Cardiology and the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation and has published research in medical journals, including the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology. After graduating from Peking Union Medical College in Beijing, China, Dr. Wan served her residency in internal medicine at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, New York. She completed a three-year fellowship in cardiovascular disease at Montefiore Medical Center and remained there to continue her fellowship training, focusing on advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology, during her final year.

Tomoaki Kato, MD, is a noted pioneer in multiple-organ transplantation, pediatric and adult liver transplantation. Dr. Kato is Surgical Director of Adult and Pediatric Liver and Intestinal Transplantation at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Irving Medical Center and is a professor of surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Kato is known for unique and innovative surgeries for adults and children, including a six-organ transplant; a procedure called APOLT (auxiliary partial orthotopic liver transplantation) that resuscitates a failing liver by attaching a partial donor liver, making immunosuppressant drugs unnecessary and the first successful human partial bladder transplantation involving the transplant of two kidneys together with ureters connected to a patch of the donor bladder. In a highly publicized case, he led the first reported removal and re-implantation, or auto-transplantation, of six organs to excise a hard-to-reach abdominal tumor. Previously the director of pediatric liver and gastrointestinal transplant and professor of clinical surgery at the University of Miami School of Medicine, Dr. Kato received his medical degree from the Osaka University Medical School in Japan and received his residency training in surgery at Osaka University Hospital and Itami City Hospital in Hyogo, Japan. He completed a clinical fellowship in transplantation at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, in Miami, Florida, where he was subsequently appointed to the surgical faculty in 1997, and promoted to full professor in 2007. He served as a surgeon and senior leader of the liver and transplantation center at Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital, beginning in 1997, and at University of Miami Hospital (previously Cedars Medical Center), beginning in 2004. Dr. Kato is a member of numerous professional and honorary organizations, and the author or co-author of more than 180 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals.ResourcesFor more information, visit the Center for Liver Disease and TransplantationIf you need assistance in Chinese (Mandarin & Cantonese), please call 646-317-6325 or, visit the Columbia Liver Asian Outreach Office (English | Mandarin