Hoopes Named Director, UK Transplant Center

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 24, 2012) — Dr. Charles Hoopes has been named the new director of the University of Kentucky Transplant Center.

Hoopes was recruited to UK HealthCare in 2010 and has become an international thought leader in mechanical circulatory support, heart and lung transplantation and artificial organ implantation. Hoopes’ partnership with Dr. Roberto Gedaly and the abdominal transplant team has resulted in UK becoming the state’s largest solid organ transplant center (heart, lung, kidney and liver).

Since arriving at UK, Hoopes has led the Transplant Center to become the largest pediatric cystic fibrosis transplant center in the country and has pioneered therapies such as ambulatory extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for those patients awaiting transplant.

Hoopes received his medical degree from Duke University where he also completed his residency in general surgery. He completed a thoracic surgery residency from the University of Michigan in 2001 and a thoracic transplantation fellowship at Duke in 2002.  Before joining the University of Kentucky, Dr. Hoopes was a thoracic transplant surgeon at the University of California, San Francisco, where he performed more than 300 heart, lung, and combined heart/lung transplants.

Currently, Hoopes holds the Jason Alexander Gill Professorship in Thoracic Surgery and serves as associate professor in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at UK.

MEDIA CONTACT: Allison Perry, (859) 323-2399 or allison.perry@uky.edu