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Dr. John Goss is Professor of Surgery and Chief of the Division of Abdominal Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery in the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. He joined the Baylor faculty in July 1998 as an Assistant Professor of Surgery and has served as the Director of Pancreatic Islet Transplantation Director of the Baylor/Methodist Liver Transplant Center at Baylor College of Medicine and The Methodist Hospital Director of Pediatric Liver Transplantation at Texas Children's Hospital and Surgical Director of the Liver Center at Texas Children's Hospital.
Dr. Goss' clinical and research interests include adult and pediatric liver transplantation hepatobiliary surgery surgical management of liver tumors and pancreatic islet transplantation. He has established himself as a brilliant technical surgeon and has done the first split liver adult and pediatric transplants in Houston.
Dr. Goss completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Wyoming and subsequently received his medical degree from Creighton University in Omaha Neb. in 1988. He was accepted and completed his general surgical training at the prestigious Barnes Hospital / Washington University School of Medicine General Surgery Program under the direction of Samuel A. Wells Jr. M.D. Dr. Goss then went on in 1997 to complete a two-year multi-organ transplant fellowship in the Division of Liver and Pancreas Transplantation at the University of Calif. Los Angeles School of Medicine in Los Angeles Calif. under the guidance of Ronald W. Busuttil M.D. Ph.D. Following the completion of this fellowship Dr. Goss joined the UCLA Department of Surgery as an assistant professor. At this time he was awarded The American Surgical Career Development Award an American Liver Foundation Award and a Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Award. In 1998 Dr. Goss was recruited to the Baylor College of Medicine to direct the liver transplant programs at The Methodist and Texas Children's Hospitals.
Dr. Goss has co-authored more than 125 publications including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Journal of Experimental Medicine Journal of Immunology Journal of Clinical Investigation Transplantation and Annals of Surgery. He has also co-authored 3 books 11 book chapters 150 abstracts as well as numerous national and international presentations. | 