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Dr. David Nelson has been the chief of heart transplant medicine at the Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute at INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center since 1994. He is a graduate of the honors program in medical education at Northwestern University in Chicago/Evanston, Illinois. The honors program admitted distinguished high school graduates directly into Northwestern University’s School of Medicine in an accelerated six-year program. He then completed his internal medicine residency at Northwestern followed by a pulmonary and heart/lung transplant fellowship at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, the site of America’s first successful heart transplant and the world’s first successful heart/lung transplant. Dr. Nelson trained at Stanford under Dr. Norman Shumway, “father of heart transplantation.” Dr. Nelson is UNOS certified in both heart and lung transplantation.
Dr. Nelson was previously the medical director of cardiac transplantation at the Arizona Heart Institute and the Utah Cardiac Transplant program, LDS Hospital. Under Dr. Nelson’s directorship, in 2002 the Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute set a benchmark with a 100 percent one-year survival rate and in 2003 the heart and lung transplant team was honored with the INTEGRIS Team Excellence Award.
Dr. Nelson is current UNOS Region 4 (Oklahoma and Texas) Associate Councillor and currently serves on the UNOS Membership and Professional Standards and UNOS Thoracic Committees. He previously served on the UNOS Scientific Advisory Committee when it developed the first Center Specific Data Report and was formerly the Chairman of the Medical Affairs Committee of the Intermountain Organ Recovery System. He was a UNOS Presidential appointee to a Task Force assessing the impact a change in national heart allocation policy.
Dr. Nelson is the Past-Chair of the Thoracic Advisory Council of the American Society of Transplantation (AST) and oversaw the Council’s transition to an AST Community of Practice. He has served on the Nominating and Education Committees of the AST. He currently serves on the Communications Committee of the International Society of Heart Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) as the Representative of the Scientific Council of Heart Failure and Transplantation of the ISHLT.
Dr. Nelson previously did research in molecular genetics and studied airway reactivity in heart/lung transplant recipients at Stanford University. He has had scientific publications on the care of left ventricular assist device patients as well as authoring textbook chapters in Handbook in Difficult Diagnosis (New York, New York, Churchill-Livingston, 1990) and The Transplantation and Replacement of Thoracic Organs, 2nd Edition (Lancaster UK, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996).
Dr. Nelson has previously worked with Senator Orrin Hatch’s office and Senator Tom Coburn’s office regarding transplant legislation, currently serves on the AST Public Policy Committee and is a regular attendee of the American College of Chest Physician’s Annual Capitol Hill Caucus.
Dr. Nelson is a member of the American Society of Transplantation, the International Society for Heart Transplantation, the Infectious Disease Society of America, the American College of Physicians, the American College of Chest Physicians, the American Medical Association, the American Society of Artificial Internal Organs, and the Heart Failure Society of America.
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Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute
INTEGRIS Baptist
Medical Center
3300 N.W. Expressway
Oklahoma City, OK 73112
Main Number
(405) 949-3349 Toll-free
1 (800) 991-3349 |
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