Rate My Professor Ani Paramesh

At Tulane, Dr. Paramesh progressed to Associate Professor in 2012 and full Professor in 2018, with adjunct appointments at Children’s Hospital of Louisiana since 2007 and Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center since 2009. He has held key roles such as Director of Living Donor Transplantation since 2010, Associate Medical Student Clerkship Director since 2017, and multiple positions at Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency, including Combined Medical/Tissue Director since 2019 and past Medical Director and Advisor to the American Association of Organ Procurement Organizations. His honors include the William Henderson IV Endowed Chair in Surgery since 2018, Douglas P. Slakey Award for Clinical Excellence in Surgery in 2015, AOA Medical Honor Society election in 2014, Bill West Professorship for Young Investigators in Transplant Research since 2011, multiple Best Doctors listings, and posters of distinction at national conferences. Dr. Paramesh's research interests encompass kidney transplantation, laparoscopic living donor nephrectomy, organ donation, transplant outcomes, and COVID-19 impacts on recipients, evidenced by 118 publications, over 1,200 citations, and key papers such as "Laparoscopic Living Donor Nephrectomy: A Single Center Comparison of Three Different Techniques" (2023) and "Short and Long-Term Outcomes of Kidney Transplant Recipients Diagnosed With COVID-19 Infection" (2022). He has delivered invited lectures nationally and internationally on transplant ethics, techniques, and policy, and served as principal investigator in clinical trials on immunosuppression and vascular access.