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UT Health Austin | Transplant Director
Nicole Turgeon, M.D., is a transplant surgeon and serves as the transplant director for the Abdominal Transplant Center, a clinical partnership between Ascension Seton and UT Health Austin. She also serves as a professor and the chief of the Division of Transplant Surgery for the Dell Medical School Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care at UT Austin. Turgeon joined UT Health Austin in 2019 and established the Abdominal Transplant Center in 2022. She has been recognized for changing the face of academic medicine in Austin through her leadership in founding the Kidney Transplant Program, Pancreas Transplant Program and Living Kidney Donor Program. Turgeon plans to expand her practice by developing programs for patients in need of liver transplants. “My hope is to establish closer connections with the transplant community in Austin through the incredible work we’re doing for both organ recipients and donors.”