Director of Kidney and Pancreas Transplant
General Surgery
Dr. Yolanda T. Becker, MD
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Doctor Yolanda T. Becker, MD is an expert in the field of General Surgery. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is one of the top medical schools in the US. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is ranked 3 in research and 29 in primary care medicine She has 4 awards "America's Top Doctors", "Chicago Magazine: Top Doctors", "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification" and "Fellow (FACS)". Yolanda Becker has written publications. She has 76 publications published with PubMed. The lastest paper is: 'Advances in pancreas transplantation: the University of Wisconsin experience.' She is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.
Publications
- Urine Metabolite Profiles Predictive of Human Kidney Allograft Status.
- Determinants of frequent Internet use in an urban kidney transplant population in the United States: characterizing the digital divide.
- Rehospitalization after living kidney donation.
- Urinary-cell mRNA profile and acute cellular rejection in kidney allografts.
- Simultaneous pancreas and kidney (SPK) retransplantation in prior SPK recipients.
- "Venopathy" at work: recasting neointimal hyperplasia in a new light.
- A Simulation-Based Curriculum Can Be Used to Teach Open Intestinal Anastomosis.
- One thousand simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplants at a single center with 22-year follow-up.
- Pancreas surgical complications.
- Alemtuzumab induction and antibody-mediated kidney rejection after simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation.
- Stent placement versus angioplasty improves patency of arteriovenous grafts and blood flow of arteriovenous fistulae.
- Obesity as a predictor of Vascular access outcomes: analysis of the USRDS DMMS Wave II study.
- Antibody-mediated rejection of the kidney after simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation.
- Nasogastric decompression is not necessary after simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation.
- Concentrated heparin lock is associated with major bleeding complications after tunneled hemodialysis catheter placement.
- Maintaining urine production and early allograft function during laparoscopic donor nephrectomy.
- Preemptive transplantation for patients with diabetes-related kidney Disease.
- Simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation from donation after cardiac death: successful long-term outcomes.
- Donation after cardiac death: the University of Wisconsin experience with liver transplantation.
- Sudden late onset of gross hematuria in a previous renal transplant recipient 3 months after transplant nephrectomy.
- Does propofol anesthesia affect intraoperative parathyroid hormone levels? A randomized, prospective trial.
- Donor genomics influence graft events: the effect of donor polymorphisms on acute rejection and chronic allograft nephropathy.
- Campath-1H in renal transplantation: The University of Wisconsin experience.
- Increasing hematocrit reduces early posttransplant cardioVascular risk in diabetic transplant recipients.
- Chronic allograft nephropathy uniformly affects recipients of cadaveric, nonidentical living-related, and living-unrelated grafts.
- Long-term outcomes in simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation: lessons relearned.
- Diabetic kidneys can safely expand the donor pool.
- Reassessing the impact of cytomegalovirus infection in kidney and kidney-pancreas transplantation.
- Complications after mumps result from damage to the pancreas.
- Rupture and hemorrhage of hepatic focal nodular hyperplasia.
- The effect of low dose epinephrine infusion on hepatic hemodynamics.
- Immunosuppression of mice by cyclophosphamide (CyP) and cyclosporin A (CsA) changes the course of HSV-1 infection and the distribution of viral DNA in target organs.
- Calcitonin gene related peptide in familial dysautonomia.
- The role of elective operation in the treatment of portal hypertension.
- Renal transplantation in the older end stage renal Disease patient.
- Net hepatic glucose output is normal on postoperative day 1 after liver transplantation.
- Mechanisms of hyperinsulinemia and hyperglucagonemia after liver transplantation.
- Dengue fever virus and Japanese encephalitis virus synthetic peptides, with motifs to fit HLA class I haplotypes prevalent in human populations in endemic regions, can...
- Nonadherence consensus conference summary report.
- The history of the University of Wisconsin transplant program.
- Peripheral vascular disease and renal transplant artery stenosis: a reappraisal of transplant renovascular disease.
- Long-term results of liver transplantation in older patients 60 years of age and older.
- Living unrelated renal donation: the University of Wisconsin experience.
- Liver transplantation as definitive therapy for complications after Arterial embolization for hepatic manifestations of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia.
- The impact of hypoalbuminemia in kidney-pancreas transplant recipients.
- Utilization of pediatric donors for pancreas transplantation.
- Liver transplantation from controlled non-heart-beating donors.
- Renin-angiotensin system gene expression in post-transplant hypertension predicts allograft function.
- Results of solitary pancreas transplantation with enteric drainage: is there a benefit from monitoring urinary amylase levels?
- Kidney function after solitary pancreas transplantation.
- Simultaneous pancreas-kidney and pancreas transplantation.
- Living-unrelated renal transplantation at the University of Wisconsin.
- Pancreas transplantation at the University of Wisconsin.
- Fluoroscopically guided vs modified traditional placement of tunneled hemodialysis catheters: clinical outcomes and cost analysis.
- Improved solitary pancreas transplant graft survival in the modern immunosuppressive era.
- Simultaneous pancreas-kidney (SPK) transplantation from controlled non-heart-beating donors (NHBDs).
- Using renal transplantation to evaluate a simple approach for predicting the impact of end-stage renal Disease therapies on patient survival: observed/expected life span.
- Simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation reduces excess mortality in type 1 diabetic patients with end-stage renal Disease.
- Advances in pancreas transplantation: the University of Wisconsin experience.
- A comparison of alemtuzumab with basiliximab induction in simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation.
- Incidence of and risk factors for posttransplant diabetes mellitus after pancreas transplantation.
- C4d-positive interacinar capillaries correlates with donor-specific antibody-mediated rejection in pancreas allografts.
- Knowledge and attitudes regarding colorectal Cancer screening among medical students: a tale of two schools.
- Alemtuzumab induction and triple maintenance immunotherapy in kidney transplantation from donors after cardiac death.
- What do clinician encounter cards really mean?
- Liver transplantation at the University of Wisconsin.
- Erythropoietin therapy may retard progression in chronic renal transplant dysfunction.
- Campath-1H induction plus rapamycin monotherapy for renal transplantation: results of a pilot study.
- Superior long-term results of simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation from pediatric donors.
- Epithelial cell polarity and improved early outcomes in delayed graft function: a pilot study of polyclonal vs monoclonal antibodies.
- Donation after cardiac death: the University of Wisconsin experience.
- Outcomes at 3 years of a prospective pilot study of Campath-1H and sirolimus immunosuppression for renal transplantation.
- The emerging role of rituximab in organ transplantation.
- Donation after cardiac death: the university of wisconsin experience with renal transplantation.
- Rituximab as treatment for refractory kidney transplant rejection.
Schools
Johns Hopkins University School Of Medicine
Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University Med Center
University Wis
Procedures Preformed
- Arteriovenous Shunt Creation
- Colectomy
- Dressing and-or Debridement of Wound, Infection, or Burn (incl. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy)
- Embolectomy, Thrombectomy, or Vessel Exploration
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Conditions Treated
- Anorectal Abscess
- Atelectasis
- Breast Cancer
- Hyperparathyroidism
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Doctors Specialties
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- Chicago Magazine: Top Doctors
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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Vanderbilt University -
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Hospital
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University of Chicago Medical Center
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1134171911 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | BECKER | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | YOLANDA | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 53792 | |
| NPPES Provider State | WI | |
| Specialty Description | General Surgery | |
| Total Claim Count | 137.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1134171911 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | BECKER |
| First Name Of The Provider | YOLANDA |
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