To watch Wendy Rigby's inspiring feature about Texas Transplant Physician Group's Dr. Michael Kwan and a group of his patients who are training for San Antonio's Rock 'n' Roll Marathon on November 13, click the link:  Transplant patients to take on S.A. marathon with full hearts.

Dr. Michael Kwan and Dr. Chandra Kunavarapu are San Antonio's only full-time Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologists.

Be sure to check out Texas Transplant Institute^**'s Facebook page to follow the progress of our marathoners.

In her blog from the National Meeting of the Heart Failure Society, Ileana Peña, MD, MPH, FAHA, FACC, discusses the newest subspecialty of cardiology and how it addresses an important sub-group of cardiology patients. “We feel that this is a huge step forward since we have felt for many years that we must contribute additional expertise to this group of patients who are very complex and who have a tremendous number of issues, not to exclude end-of-life care and hospice care,” says Peña.

Both Dr. Michael Kwan and Dr. Chandra Kunaravarapu with Texas Transplant Physician Group are board certified in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology.

Board-certified Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist Dr. Chandra Kunavarapu with Texas Transplant Physician Group joins the Executive Committee of Texas Transplantation Society as a Heart Councilor. Texas Transplant Society's mission is to facilitate transplantation throughout Texas and Dr. Kunavarapu's responsibilities will include promoting the Society's goals and bringing to their attention specific issues relating to heart transplantation.

"The community of heart transplant cardiologists in Texas is a small one. My membership on this Executive Committee is a great way to communicate with other transplant specialists and raise awareness of heart transplantation in San Antonio," says Dr. Kunavarapu.

Read the heart-warming San Antonio Express-News article about Sandy Elizardo, a nurse at Methodist and Specialty Transplant Hospital^* in San Antonio, Texas, who received a heart transplant through Texas Transplant Physician Group's Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Program shortly after the birth of her first child.

Texas Transplant Physician Group is proud to announce that Dr. Michael Kwan and Dr. Chandra Kunavarapu have passed their board exams for a new sub-specialty of Internal Medicine:  Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology. The board certification makes Dr. Kwan and Dr. Kunavarapu the first transplant-certified cardiologists in San Antonio.

The American Board of Medical Specialties has recently announced the creation of a new sub-specialty of Internal Medicine:  Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology.
 
This new certification acknowledges the important role of cardiologists with extensive training and experience in managing complex heart failure and transplant patients.
 
Dr. Michael Kwan and Dr. Chandra Kunavarapu, full-time transplant cardiologists at Texas Transplant Physician Group’s Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Program, will sit for the certification exam on November 9, 2010.
 
For more information about the certification, click this link to read an article from the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Read an article about the 10-year anniversary of Texas Transplant Institute^**’s comprehensive adult solid organ transplantation and adult and pediatric blood and marrow stem cell transplantation programs: San Antonio MD News November 2009.

**A Department of Methodist Hospital