Galbreath, Autumn D MD

Transplant Hepatologist Dr. Kavitha Thudi is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. She practices at the Texas Transplant Institute at Methodist Hospital and Methodist Hospital | Specialty and Transplant. Dr. Thudi is drawn to her field of expertise by the opportunity to treat patients with complex and challenging liver disease and to see them do well. She has a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery from Rangaraya Medical College in India and she completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at St. Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri. She completed a fellowship in transplant hepatology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. After moving to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she served as a clinical instructor in internal medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, she completed a fellowship in gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition there. She worked as a transplant hepatologist at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh and Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Dr. Thudi is a member of the American Gastroenterological Association and American College of Gastroenterology. She is board certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology.

Preston Foster, MD, FACS established the Liver Transplant Program at Texas Transplant Institute for Methodist Hospital | Specialty and Transplant. He was one of the first Fellows in Transplantation Surgery certified by the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, he is also Board Certified in General Surgery, and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery. Dr. Foster graduated from Baylor University with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry, obtained his medical degree at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, and trained in general surgery at the University of Tennessee Medical School in Memphis. He participated in one of the only two liver transplant programs in the country as a resident during the very early years of liver transplantation. Dr. Foster joined the Rush transplant team as an attending physician in 1988 and served on the Transplantation Surgery faculty. He staffed more than 700 liver transplants and participated in the care of thousands of liver failure patients during his tenure at Rush, making him one of the most experienced active liver transplant surgeons in the country. Dr. Foster is widely published on the topics of liver and small intestinal transplantation, immunosuppressant strategies and medications, and contributed to one of the first textbooks written on liver transplantation (Hepatic Transplantation, Saunders, 1990).