MUSC International Adoption Clinic

Dr. Scalea is a board-certified surgeon specializing in kidney, pancreas, liver, and islet cell transplantation. Dr. Scalea’s patient care philosophy is to treat his patients with a meticulous focus on excellence and compassionate care. His clinical area of expertise is in abdominal organ transplantation, with a special interest in kidney, pancreas, and islet cell transplantation. Dr. Scalea has achieved outstanding results in his simultaneous kidney and pancreas (SPK) transplant recipients. At MUSC Health, he is the Surgical Director of the Kidney Transplant Program and the Director of Hepatology, Nephrology, and Transplant ICCE Quality and Innovation. Dr. Scalea’s research interests focus on improving outcomes and access to care for patients needing life-saving transplantation and researching strategies to achieve immune tolerance in allogeneic solid organ transplantation. He received international notoriety in 2019 for pioneering drones for organ transplants. As the inaugural Vice Chair of Surgery for Innovation, Dr. Scalea will expand his experience in clinical medicine, academic leadership, commercialization, and innovation to help translate innovative ideas from the laboratory to industry. Dr. Scalea received his medical degree and surgical training from the University of Maryland and completed his transplant fellowship at the University of Wisconsin and his post-doctoral fellowship at the Harvard Medical School, Transplantation Biology Research Center. When not in the clinic or laboratory, Dr. Scalea enjoys painting and performing music. His artworks are currently on display in Baltimore and Washington, D.C.

This provider is a board-certified internist who only sees patients ages 18 and older. If the patient is under 18 years of age, please select a different primary care provider. We apologize for any inconvenience. Dr. Benjamin Clyburn is an associate professor of medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina. After receiving his medical degree from MUSC, Dr. Clyburn completed his residency and chief resident year at the Bowman-Gray School of Medicine/North Carolina Baptist Hospital.Dr. Clyburn is a member of the Society of General Medicine, the Association of Program Directors of Internal Medicine and the Charleston County Medical Society. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, and was chosen by his students and peers to be a member of Alpha Omega Alpha, the medical honor society. He has been the recipient of a number of other honors including Best Doctors of America and the Golden Apple Award. Dr. Clyburn serves as the program director of MUSC’s internal medicine residency program and as the vice chairman for graduate medical education.He continues to have an active medical practice focusing on the care of adults in the general internal medicine setting with a special interest in hypertension.

Mohamed A. Abdelwahab, M.D., Ph.D is a sleep surgeon who specializes in providing a variety of procedures for comprehensive management of sleep apnea. This includes surgery to the pharyngeal airway, the nose, the facial skeleton (face), and the tongue base. Dr. Abdelwahab finished his dedicated sleep surgery fellowship in the Sleep Surgery Division, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at Stanford University. This was preceded by his joint supervision PhD program and scholarship in facial skeletal and nasal surgery in the Division of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Stanford University. Stanford has pioneered the field of sleep apnea surgery since the 1970s. Dr. Abdelwahab is otolaryngology trained, and specializes in facial skeletal surgery and nasal surgery. Dr. Abdelwahab's clinical and academic (research) work over the last years has focused on outcome measures after facial skeletal and nasal surgery for sleep apnea, as well as real-world evidence for sleep surgery.