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Jasleen Kukreja, MD

Professor of Surgery
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States

Jasleen Kukreja, M.D., M.P.H. is Professor of Surgery in Cardiothoracic Surgery division at University of California, San Francisco. She is the Director of Lung Transplantation as well as Adult Respiratory ECMO and ex-vivo lung perfusion programs at UCSF.

Dr. Kukreja earned her medical degree from UCLA, completed general surgery residency and Thoracic Surgery fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and then completed a Cardiothoracic Surgery training at UCSF where she has remained as faculty.

Under her leadership, the UCSF Lung Transplantation Program has become one of the premiere programs. Dr. Kukreja has received numerous professional honors including the Teaching Award at Harvard, Outstanding Pulmonary Physician, American Board of Cardiology award, Top Doctors 2016-2020, Exceptional Women in Medicine 2017, 2019, and Trailblazing Women in Surgery Muriel Steele Society Award.

Her research focuses on outcomes in Lung Transplantation. She has published extensively and has been invited nationally and internationally to share her expertise.

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