Adam Bingaman, MD, PhD is the Director of Abdominal Organ Transplantation at Texas Transplant Institute at Methodist Hospital | Specialty and Transplant in San Antonio. He is a Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Surgeon.
Dr. Bingaman heads up some of the best-known and most-preferred programs, not only in San Antonio and South Texas, but also nationally in the case of the Kidney Live Donor Program. The Kidney Paired Exchange Program, Blood Type Incompatible Program and the Sensitized Patient Program are manifestations of Dr. Bingaman’s passion for taking on challenges as they relate to difficult-to-transplant patients.
Both Dr. Bingaman and the groundbreaking Kidney Live Donor Transplant Program in San Antonio have garnered national and international acclaim. He travels extensively to share his expertise, and has lectured and performed grand rounds at some of the world’s most prestigious academic institutions, including Cambridge University, Yale University, and Mayo Clinic. He has spoken on live donor kidney transplantation and histocompatibility to transplant organizations in Spain, Poland, Belgium, Canada, Latin America and South Korea.
Dr. Bingaman graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in biochemistry and received his medical degree cum laude from Boston University School of Medicine. He completed his general surgery residency at Emory University Affiliated Hospitals Residency Program and earned a doctorate in immunology from Emory University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Division of Immunology and Molecular Pathogenesis. His thesis focused on how the immune system accepts or rejects transplanted tissues. Dr. Bingaman completed his fellowship training in kidney and pancreas transplantation surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Prior to joining Texas Transplant Institute, Dr. Bingaman was Assistant Professor of Surgery at Medical College of Georgia in Augusta and University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio. Dr. Bingaman holds memberships in American College of Surgeons, American Society of Transplant Surgeons, American Society of Transplant Physicians and Alpha Omega Alpha Medical National Honor Society. He has published extensively in the field of transplantation immunology.