Gabriel Eduardo Gondolesi, MD
Provider is directly employed by MedStar Health
Provider is directly employed by MedStar HealthSpecialties: Transplant Surgery
Languages: Spanish, English
About me
Dr. Gondolesi is Director of Pediatric Liver Transplantation and Associate Director of Intestinal Transplantation at MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute. He has more than 20 years of experience performing adult and pediatric transplantation. He established the first comprehensive intestinal failure program in Latin America and was Chief of General Surgery and Transplantation at Argentina’s largest liver transplant program at Fundacion Favaloro in Buenos Aires.
Dr. Gondolesi major focus is on treating pediatric liver transplant as well as pediatric and adult intestinal transplant patients. When treating patients, he takes a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach, evaluating the patient as a whole to help achieve the best outcomes.
His areas of special interest and expertise include:
- Pediatric acute and chronic liver failure
- Pediatric liver transplantation, including split liver, living donor, and Domino transplants
- Pediatric and Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation.
- Adult and pediatric intestinal failure and intestinal rehabilitation, surgery, and transplantation
Dr. Gondolesi earned his medical degree at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the National University of La Plata in Buenos Aires, Argentina and completed his residency at Pavilion Finochietto of the "General San Martin" Hospital in La Plata, Argentina. He completed two fellowships, a liver transplantat and hepatobiliary surgery fellowship at Favaloro Fundacion in Buenos Aires, Argentina, follow by a second fellowship in multiorgan transplantation at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, US.
His research has been widely published in peer-reviewed journals.. He is the past president of the Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplant Association and has been recently elected as Vice-president of the Transplantation Society, the largest international professional society for transplantation.
When he’s not working, he enjoys music, biking, traveling, classic motorbikes and cars, and flying drones.
Clinical areas of focus
- Infertility
- Islet Xenotransplant
- Liver Transplantation
- Small Bowel Transplantation
Conditions and procedures
Conditions I treat
- Arterial Embolism
- Ascites
- Biliary Tract Disease
- Bone Marrow Transplant Status
- Cardiometabolic Disorders
- Complications Of Transplanted Organs And Tissue
- Congenital Malformations Of Gallbladder, Bile Ducts And Liver
- Corneal Transplant Failure
- Disorders Of Mineral Metabolism
- Donors Of Organs And Tissues
- Graft Vs Host Disease
- Heart Transplant Failure
- Immunodeficiencies
- Infertility
- Intrahepatic Bile Ducts Cancer
- Kidney Rejection
- Liver Failure
- Living Donor Kidney Transplant
- Living Donor Liver Transplant
- Lung Transplant Complications
- Lung Transplant Rejection
- Malabsorption
- Organ Donor Matching
- Organ Procurement
- Pancreas Transplant Complications
- Pancreas Transplant Failure
- Pancreas Transplant Status
- Persons Encountering Health Services
- Polycystic Liver Disease
- Tissue Typing
- Transplanted Organ And Tissue Status
Procedures I perform
- Abdominal Organ Transplantation
- Artificial Liver Therapy
- Bioartificial Liver Therapy
- Cancer Registry Management Consultation
- Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering
- Community Health Education
- Cross-Matching
- Deceased Donor Transplantation
- Disease Management Education
- Donor Organ Procurement
- Dopamine Therapy
- Functional Status Assessment
- Funeral Services
- Gastric Surgery
- Graft Survival Analysis
- Histocompatibility Testing
- In-Office Laboratory Testing
- Insurance Billing
- Islet Xenotransplant
- Live-In Care
- Liver Cancer Treatment
- Liver Resection
- Liver Transplantation
- Liver-Kidney Transplantation
- Living Donor Transplantation
- Multidisciplinary Team Care
- Multivisceral Transplantation
- Organ Procurement Organization Services
- Palliative Care Coordination
- Palliative Care Education
- Palliative Care Services
- Pancreatic Disease Management
- Pathology Services
- Pediatric Transplantation
- Performance Improvement
- Portal Hypertension Treatment
- Relief Services
- Reproductive Medicine
- Research Papers
- Research Subject Advocacy
- Re-Transplantation
- Service Agreements
- Small Bowel Transplantation
- Targeted Therapy Management
- Transplant Bioinformatics
- Transplant Clinical Trials Management
- Transplant Evaluation
- Transplant History
- Transplant Immunology
- Value-Based Payment
- Wellness Services
Insurance
MedStar Health accepts most major health insurance plans. If you are uncertain as to whether your individual health insurance plan is accepted at MedStar Health, please call your insurance company.
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List of insurance plans we accept
- Kaiser Permanente HMO Plus and DHMO Plus Member
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage
- TRICARE East Prime
- HighMark
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers Plus
- DC/MD SHOP QHP Small Business Plans
- First Health PPO
- CIGNA Indemnity
- HumanaChoice PPO
- Uniformed Services Family Health Plan
- Erickson Advantage Plans
- Tricare Reserve Select
- Cigna True Choice Medicare (PPO)
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- CIGNA POS/Network POS
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO) Cardiac Global
- Choice POS
- Aetna Signature Administrator PPO/TPA
- CareFirst MedStar PPO
- Alterwood Advanatge HMO & DSNP Plans
- IH-Open HMO
- IH-Open Network Only Plus
- IH-PPO
- Options PPO Cardiac Global
- United Healthcare Options (PPO)
- Fee-for-Service (FFS) District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia Medicaid
- BlueChoice Open Access
- CareFirst Blue Preferred PPO
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
- IH-Open POS II
- CIGNA HMO Open Access
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice POS Cardiac Global
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (POS & POS OA)
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PPO
- Private Fee-for-Service Plans (PFFS)
- TRICARE East Select
- UnitedHealthcare Individual Exchange Plans
- Cigna Achieve Medicare (HMO C-SNP)
- Optimum Choice
- Choice Fund PPO
- CareFirst BlueChoice HMO
- Kaiser Maryland Medicaid MCO
- Geisinger Medicare Advantage
- United Healthcare Choice
- Medicare FFS
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- CareFirst Community Health Plan of MD
- TRICARE for Life East
- CIGNA PPO Plus
- Priority Partners - Maryland Health Choice
- Police and Fire Clinic
- Kaiser Permanente Select Cardiac Global
- Private Health Care Systems (PPO)
- Advantra Platinum (PPO)
- Cigna True Choice Plus Medicare (PPO)
- HumanaChoice Honor's plan PPO
- Choice POS II
- Health Services for Children with Special Needs
- WellPoint Maryland - Maryland Health Choice
- Amerigroup DC Healthy Families
- CareFirst (NCA) Indemnity
- Amerigroup DC Alliance
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Standard
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthy Families
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- Anthem BCBS of VA Key Care POS/PPO/Indemnity
- Employee Health Plan
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthy Families
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Adv. Special Needs Plans
- IH-Network Only Plus
- MultiPlan, Inc
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Plus
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (HMO)
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- Medicare Advantage - Advantra Value (PPO)
- CareFirst EPO
- Aetna Classic 3500
- Kaiser Permanente Signature - Added Choice
- Aetna Classic 5000
- Aetna Premier 200PD
- United Healthcare Choice Plus
- OCI Direct (HMO)
- CareFirst Federal Employee Program (Std. & Basic PPO)
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage prescription drug benefit (PPO)
- Kaiser Permanente Select
- Aetna VA Exchange
- UnitedHealthcare and AARP Medicare Complete Plans
- BCBS of Michigan (BCN Advantage,Security Blue, Freedom, Medicare PLUS Blue Group PPO)
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
- IH-POS Plus
- CIGNA SureFit (HMO)
- United Healthcare Select HMO-EPO/NPP Cardiac Global
- Maryland Physicians Care MCO
- United Healthcare Select Plus (POS)
- United Healthcare Choice Cardiac Global
- Cigna Alliance Medicare (HMO)
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- Cigna TotalCare (HMO D-SNP)
- Aetna HMO
- CareFirst Dual Prime HMO-SNP
- Beech Street PPO
- Magellan Complete Care of VA - VA Medicaid MCO
- United Healthcare Navigate Cardiac Global
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue SNP
- Core Essential (HMO)
- Humana Medicare Advantage - HMO Open Access
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice 3-tier POS
- Choice POS II Open Access
- Aetna Better Health of VA
- CareFirst Maryland Point of Service Plan
- Optima Family Care MCO - VA Medicaid MCO
- Aetna Advantage 6350
- IH-EPO Plus
- United Medicare Private Fee-for-Service (PFFS) plans
- MD IPA (HMO) & MD IPA Preferred Cardiac Global
- OA Plus
- Kaiser Permaenete Signature - Added Choice Cardiac Global
- United Student Resources
- Optimum Choice Preferred (POS)
- IH-HMO
- Network OA
- Aetna Classic 5000PD
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund)
- IH-Indemnity
- Lasso Healthcare - Medicare Medical Savings Account
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- CIGNA Connect EPO
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
- Sentara Health
- United HealthCare Community Plan - Maryland Health Choice Program
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO)
- Blue Choice Advantage
- CareFirst Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- BCBS Out-of-State Medicare Plans (Blue Advantage)
- Aetna Medicare Advantage PFFS Plan
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- UHC Passport
- Choice Care Network/HUMANA (PPO)
- AMERIVANTAGE/Amerigroup Community Care
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PLUS PPO
- M.D. IPA (HMO)
- UHC Group Medicare Advantage Plans (HMO, POS, PPO)
- Aetna Advantage 5750
- Cigna Preferred Medicare (HMO)
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Advantage Signature and Select
- Aetna Basic
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthcare Alliance
- Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- IH-POS
- CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Advantage Core/Enhanced
- Navigate
- TriWest Healthcare Alliance
- CareFirst Blue Card Program
- Optimum Choice & Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) Cardiac Global
- Veterans Affairs Community Care Network
- NYC Medicare Advantage Plus
- Aetna Advantage 6350PD
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD HMO
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthcare Alliance
- M.D. IPA Preferred (POS)
- IH-Open POS Plus
- Aetna Worker's Compensation Network
- CareFirst NASCO
- Humana Gold Plus HMO
- Kaiser Permanente Select - Added Choice
- HealthyBlue PPO
- IH-Open EPO Plus
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA/HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- Humana Medicare Advantage - PPO
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage DSNP District of Columbia
- Medicare Direct
- United Healthcare Choice Plus Cardiac Global
- CareFirst Administrators
- Kaiser Permanente Signature
- United Healthcare Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- First Health PPO
- CareFirst MedStar Select PPO
- CareFirst FEP Blue Focus
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Dual Adv
- Healthy Blue (HMO, POS)
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Basic
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- Jai Medical Systems - Maryland Health Choice
- United Healthcare Community Plan - VA Medicaid MCO
- Aetna Better Health of MD
- POS OA
- IH-Open HMO Option
- HUMANA/Choice Care Medicare Plans (Choice, Gold Choice)
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Open Access
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Plus
- CIGNA HMO & Network (HMO)
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- CIGNA EPO
- CIGNA PPO
Education
Fellowship: Mount Sinai Hospital and Medical Center GME (2001)
Fellowship: Hospital Universitario Fundacion Favaloro (1999)
Residency: Hospital Interzonal General de Agudos (1997)
Residency: Hospital Interzonal General de Agudos (1996)
Medical School: Universidad Nacional de la Plata (1993)
Awards
- From 1990 to 2024, Dr Gondolesi received 23 Awards and Recognitions, being the most significant ones the following:
- 1993: Gold Medal as the best 1992 Medical graduate at the National University of La Plata.
- 2007: Best Abstract Award at ILAS/ASPEN: Desarrollo de un programa de Soporte Nutricional, Rehabilitación y Transplante Intestinal: Resultados Iniciales. Gondolesi G, Fernandez A, Fauda M. Fabeiro M, Ruf A, Rumbo C. Arizona, US, 2007.
- 2012: Honoris Causa Professor at Universidad de San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca, Sucre, Bolivia, for the Achievements and Contributions made in the Transplant Field.
- 2014: Honorary Citizen, Tandil City, for the Contributions made in the transplant Field for the benefit of our nation.
- 2015: TTS STALYC award for the Best Scientific Abstract: Long term results of intestinal Transplant in a Single Argentinean Center. Stalyc 2015 Cancún México.
- 2017: TTS-IRTA Congress Scientific Award: Paneth and stem cells are not affected during initial stages of acute cellular rejection in small bowel transplantation in humans. New York
- 2018: TTS Madrid: Mentor-Mentee Scientific Award TTS: Paneth and intestinal stem cells are differentially affected during worsening of Acute Cellular Rejection in Small Bowel Transplantation compared to Intestinal Ischemia and Reperfusion Injury and GVHD. Madrid, 2018.
- 2021: Scandinavian Microsurgery Academy. Lars-Erik Award. For pioneering contributions to clinical and experimental transplantation and distinguish mentor in transplantation research.
- 2022: TTS 2022, Buenos Aires. Mentor Mentee Award Scientific Award TTS: Transplant of the Abdominal rectus fascia in rodents, first report of the microsurgical procedure, and initial results. Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sept. 2022.
- 2022: Congreso Uruguayo de Cirugía: 1st Award of the Research Forum for the Study: Binational Project on Laparoscopic Simulation Training: Preliminar Results. Punta del Este, Uruguay.
- 2023: KONEX Award as One of the 5th more influencial physicians in the area of surgery during the last decade. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Hospital affiliations
News and publications
The impact of his work has been released in the news in different countries:
.Fundación Konex (Argentina): https://www.fundacionkonex.org/b5502-gabriel-gondolesi
.Scandinavian Microsurgery Academy (Sweeden): https://www.microsurgery.se
.CONICET (Argentina): https://ri.conicet.gov.ar › handle
.La Nación (Argentina): https://www.lanacion.com.ar/sociedad/el-inedito-procedimiento-con-el-que-neurocirujanos-le-salvaron-la-vida-a-una-joven-que-entro-en-coma-nid26072022/
.Infobae (Argentina): https://www.infobae.com/salud/2023/10/22/el-sistema-de-salud-argentino-tiene-necesidades-y-carencias-afirmo-el-premio-konex-en-cirugia-gabriel-gondolesi/
.El ECO (Argentina): https://www.eleco.com.ar/interes-general/el-tandilense-gabriel-gondolesi-dentro-de-las-100-personalidades-destacada-de-la-ciencia
.La Nación (Argentina): https://www.lanacion.com.ar/editoriales/trasplante-ejemplar-nid1302670/
.La Nación (Argentina): https://www.lanacion.com.ar/ciencia/inauguran-en-febrero-el-primer-centro-de-trasplante-de-intestino-nid743178/
.La Nación (Argentina): https://www.lanacion.com.ar/ciencia/como-proteger-a-los-chicos-de-la-realidad-nid1377341/
.La Nación (Argentina): https://www.lanacion.com.ar/ciencia/una-nina-de-2-anos-recibio-un-trasplante-pionero-en-sudamerica-nid933607/
.La Nación (Argentina): https://www.lanacion.com.ar/ciencia/el-mejor-regalo-esta-vez-lo-trajo-la-ciencia-nid1084270/
.Clarín (Argentina): https://www.clarin.com/sociedad/realizan-favaloro-trasplante-donante-vivo-inedito-pais_0_U-Bq3af2M.html
. Clarin (Argentina): https://www.clarin.com/sociedad/realizan-favaloro-trasplante-donante-vivo-inedito-pais_0_U-Bq3af2M.html
. El Eco (Argentina): https://www.eldiariodetandil.com/2020/01/21/gabriel-gondolesi-participo-de-una-conferencia-internacional-de-donacion-de-organos
.US News Heath (US): https://health.usnews.com/doctors/gabriel-gondolesi-1084659
Publications
Intestinal Transplantation in the Developing World. Gondolesi GE, Nikoupour H, Matsumoto CS. Gastroenterol Clin North Am. 2024 Sep;53(3):509-519.
Baseline Characteristics of Adult Patients Treated and Never Treated with Teduglutide in a Multinational Short Bowel Syndrome and Intestinal Failure Registry Gondolesi GE, Pape UF, Mason JB, Allard JP, Pironi L, Casas MNV, Schwartz LK, Joly F, Gabriel A, Sabrdaran S, Zhang P, Kohl-Sobania M, Huang YW, Jeppesen PB. Nutrients. 2024 Aug 1;16(15):2513.
Lack of differences in outcomes between 3 immunosuppression protocols in the first year after pediatric liver transplantation: A multicenter study. Costaguta AC, Costaguta GA, Rumbo C, Gondolesi G, D'Agostino D, Pallitto MB, Bottasso O, Álvarez F. Liver Transpl. 2024 Jul 2. doi: 10.1097
Salvage Endovascular Thrombectomy for Splenic Vein Thrombosis After Pancreas Transplantation: A Single-Center Experience and Systematic Literature Review. Fernandez MF, Pattin FF, Rubio JS, Montes LA, Ramisch DA, Lev G, Fava C, Raffaele P, Gondolesi GE.Exp Clin Transplant. 2024 Jul;22(7):487-496.
Genome-wide DNA methylation and transcriptomic analysis of liver tissues subjected to early ischemia/reperfusion injury upon human liver transplantation. Giraudi PJ, Laraño AA, Monego SD, Pravisani R, Bonazza D, Gondolesi G, Tiribelli C, Baralle F, Baccarani U, Licastro D.Ann Hepatol. 2024 Jul-Aug;29(4):101506.