Jacqueline Garonzik Wang, M.D. Ph.D, is an associate professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in the Division of Transplant Surgery. She was born and raised in Baltimore and completed her undergraduate studies in Public Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University. She obtained her medical degree at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta and then returned to Baltimore to complete her general surgery training as a Halsted Resident at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Additionally, she obtained a Ph.D. in Clinical Investigation at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed her fellowship in Abdominal Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery at Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. Her areas of clinical expertise include hepatobiliary surgery, liver, pancreas, and kidney transplantation and living kidney donation.
Dr. Garonzik Wang has contributed to numerous publications and national presentations. Her research interests include exploring and developing methods to increase living donation, utilizing large healthcare datasets to improve access to transplantation and post-transplant outcomes, and increasing deceased donor transplant rates by safely expanding organ acceptance criteria.