The Department of Surgery at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Department of Surgery
Jacqueline Lappin, M.D.

Jacqueline Lappin, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Chief, Pancreas Transplantation


Biography

Jacqueline Lappin, M.D.Dr. Jacqueline Lappin completed post-graduate medical education at Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin. Lappin was a research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She completed her preliminary general surgery residency at The Medical Center of Delaware and a general surgery residency at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.Dr. Lappin performed her transplant fellowship within the Division of Immunology and Organ Transplantation at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston.

She joined the team in October 2003 as an Assistant Professor of Surgery. She has re-joined with the renal transplant team in 2007 after practicing at The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. Having spent some time in the University of Minnesota with Dr Sutherland (who pioneered solid organ pancreas transplantation) she hopes to expand the pancreas program here at UT, with particular emphasis on the combined use of live kidney and deceased donor pancreas transplantation and for patients with normal renal function pancreas transplants alone. It is so satisfying to see what Pancreas transplantation alone or in combination with kidney transplantation can do to alter the quality of life for these patients – patients who maybe couldn’t be alone because of hypoglycemic unawareness, patients who now have a chance to slow down or delay the consequences of poor glucose control. There are many challenges with pancreas transplantation – it’s not just about getting good one year graft survival it’s also about monitoring the patients to maintain good graft function – and this requires lots of teamwork.

Selected publications

        Thomas PG, Woodside KJ, Lappin JA, Vaidya S, Rajaraman S, Zugliuzza KK. Alemtuzumab (Campath 1H) induction with tacrolimus monotherapy is safe for high immunological risk renal transplantation.
        Transplantation. 2007 Jun 15;83(11):1509-12.

        Pivalizza EG, Raber MK, Ozaki CF, Lappin JA, Wood RP. Heparin effect after hepatic artery anastomosis during liver transplantation.
        Anesth Analg. 2001 Sep;93(3):802.

        Forgacs B, Merhav HJ, Lappin J, Mieles L. Successful conversion to rapamycin for calcineurin inhibitor-related neurotoxicity following liver transplantation. Transplant Proc. 2005 May;37(4):1912-4.

        Shou J, Lappin J, Daly JM. Impairment of pulmonary macrophage function with total parenteral nutrition. Ann Surg. 1994 Mar;219(3):291-7.

        Shou J, Lappin J, Minnard EA, Daly JM. Total parenteral nutrition, bacterial translocation, and host immune function. Am J Surg. 1994 Jan;167(1):145-50.

        Lappin J, Corbally MT, Guiney EJ. Splenic pseudocyst: aspiration or cyst decapsulation. Ir J Med Sci. 1992 Feb;161(2):48.

        Burke PE, Lappin J, Hyland J. Early results with restorative proctocolectomy. Ir J Med Sci. 1990 Sep-Dec;159(9-12):266-8.

         

Contact Information:

Tel: 713-500-7415

Email: Jacqueline.A.Lappin@
uth.tmc.edu

There are many challenges with pancreas transplantation – it’s not just about getting good one year graft survival it’s also about monitoring the patients to maintain good graft function – and this requires lots of teamwork.

Jacqueline Lappin , M.D.