Professor of Surgery Director, Kidney and Pancreas Program
UChicago Faculty Physicians Open for more information
UChicago Faculty Physicians hold faculty positions with the University of Chicago and provide care for patients on the academic health system’s main campus in Hyde Park and in care centers throughout the Chicago region.
CloseMeet Dr. Becker
Also a respected physician scientist, Dr. Becker is widely known for her clinical research on reducing transplant rejection rates and her basic research in immunology. She has authored more than 100 scientific articles and abstracts in publications, such as the American Journal of Transplantation, Transplantation and Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation.
Dr. Becker is a featured speaker at medical conferences across the globe, and a recognized leader in the field of transplantation. She serves on the board of directors for the American Society of Transplantation and was president of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network/United Network for Organ Sharing (OPTN/UNOS) board of directors.
Dr. Becker was one of the physicians leaders of the transplant care team that made history in December 2018 after performing two triple-organ transplants within 27 hours, replacing the failing hearts, livers and kidneys of 29-year-olds Sarah McPharlin and Daru Smith.
Specialties
Areas of Expertise
- Dialysis
- Kidney & Pancreas Transplant
- Living-Donor Procedures
Medical Education
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Internship
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Residency
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Fellowship
- University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics
Memberships & Medical Societies
- Association of Women Surgeons
- H. William Scott, Jr. Society
- Association for Academic Surgery
- Women Executives in Science and Healthcare
- Southeastern Surgical Congress
- American College of Surgeons
- American Medical Association
- American Society of Transplant Surgeons
- American Society of Transplantation
- Aetna HMO (specialists only)
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO
- BCBS Blue Precision HMO (specialists only)
- BCBS HMO (HMOI) (specialists only)
- BCBS PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna POS
- Cigna PPO
- CountyCare *see insurance page
- Coventry Health Plan PPO
- Great West PPO
- Aetna Better Health *see insurance page
- Medicare
- Multiplan PPO
- PHCS PPO
- United Choice Plus POS/PPO
- United Options (PPO)
- United Select (HMO & EPO) (specialists only)
- United W500 Emergent Wrap
To Request an Appointment
Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine (DCAM) - Hyde Park
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UChicago Medicine at Ingalls - Flossmoor
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UChicago Medicine - Hinsdale
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To Refer a Patient
Refer a PatientWorld's First Back-to-Back Heart-Liver-Kidney Transplants
UChicago Medicine physicians made history in December 2018 after performing two triple-organ transplants within 27 hours, replacing the failing hearts, livers and kidneys of 29-year-olds Sarah McPharlin and Daru Smith.
