About me
Jennifer E. Verbesey, MD, is board certified in general surgery and specializes in kidney/pancreas transplantation for adults and children, and live donor nephrectomies. Dr. Verbesey is the director of the Living Donor Kidney Transplant program at the MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, the surgical director of the Pediatric Kidney Transplant program at MedStar Georgetown Hospital/Children's National Medical Center, and an assistant professor of surgery at Georgetown University Medical School.
Transplant surgery combines what Dr. Verbesey considers to be the best parts of medicine, science and technology, the need for complex decision making, and the opportunity to help others while building lasting relationships.
Focusing on the living donor kidney program allows Dr. Verbesey to develop long-term relationships with both kidney donors and recipients. Thanks to the latest medical advances, she's able to make matches using organs that at one time would have been considered incompatible. She and her team specialize in compatible transplants, as well as desensitization procedures, ABO incompatible transplants, and kidney swaps and exchanges.
Dr. Verbesey contributes to advancing transplantation through her research interests in living donor outcomes and quality of life, desensitization procedures and kidney exchanges. In addition, she is heavily involved with education as the associate fellowship director for transplant surgery and as the director of the transplant surgery rotation for residents and medical students.
In the News
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Clinical areas of focus
- Kidney Resection
- Kidney Transplant Failure Treatment
- Laparoscopic Kidney Biopsy
- Pancreas And Kidney Transplant
- Transplant Nephrectomy
- Transplanted Kidney Failure
- Viral Gastroenteritis Treatment
Conditions and procedures
Conditions I treat
- Acquired Absence Of Kidney
- Acquired Absence Of Organs
- Alimentary Tract Foreign Body
- Aplastic Anemias And Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes
- Ascites
- Benign Neoplasm Of Digestive System
- Biliary Tract Disease
- Chronic Kidney Disease
- Chronic Kidney Disease After Transplant
- Chronic Rejection Of Transplanted Organ
- Complications Of Transplanted Organs And Tissue
- Cytomegaloviral (CMV) Infection
- Disorders Involving The Immune Mechanism
- Disorders Of Fluid, Electrolyte And Acid
- Disorders Of Mineral Metabolism
- Donor Nephrectomy Complications
- Donors Of Organs And Tissues
- Gallbladder Disease
- Immunodeficiencies
- Infection After Transplant
- Intestinal Infections
- Intraoperative And Postprocedural Complications Of Eye
- Liver Cirrhosis
- Liver Failure
- Liver Transplant Complications
- Liver Transplant Rejection
- Living Donor Kidney Transplant Complications
- Long Term Drug Therapy
- Neutropenia
- Obstructive And Reflux Uropathy
- Organ Failure After Transplant
- Pancreas Disease After Transplant
- Pancreas Transplant Complications
- Polycystic Liver Disease
- Rejection Of Transplanted Heart
- Rejection Of Transplanted Kidney
- Secondary Hypertension
- Transplanted Kidney Failure
- Transplanted Organ And Tissue Status
- Transplanted Organ Failure
- Viral Infection
Procedures I perform
- Backbench Liver Graft Reconstruction
- Dialysis
- Dilation Of Esophagus
- Donor Organ Procurement
- Enterectomy
- Excision Of Right Kidney
- Fibrillary Glomerulonephritis Treatment
- Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis Treatment
- Gastric Surgery
- Genitourinary Fistula Treatment
- Graft Rejection Prevention
- Hematuria Treatment
- Histocompatibility Testing
- Iliopopliteal Bypass
- Immune Cell Monitoring
- Inpatient Palliative Care
- Intravenous Pyelogram
- Islet Xenotransplant
- Kidney Disease Treatment
- Kidney Function Test
- Kidney Pancreas Transplant Evaluation
- Kidney Resection
- Kidney Stones Treatment
- Kidney Transplant Failure Treatment
- Kidney-Pancreas Transplant
- Laparoscopic Kidney Biopsy
- Laparoscopic Ureteral Reimplantation
- Live-In Care
- Minimally Invasive Urologic Surgery
- Nephrectomy
- Nephrotic Syndrome Treatment
- Open Partial Nephrectomy
- Organ Donation
- Palliative Care Services
- Pancreas And Kidney Transplant
- Pancreas Transplant
- Pancreatic Disease Management
- Pediatric Surgery Follow-Up
- Pharmacological Treatment Of Hypertension
- Proteinuria Treatment
- Purine Nucleoside Phosphorylase Deficiency Treatment
- Removal Of Transplanted Kidney
- Removal Of Transplanted Organ
- Renal Allograft Biopsy
- Renal Artery Stenosis Treatment
- Renal Biopsy
- Renal Vein Thrombosis Treatment
- Robotic Colpopexy
- Simultaneous Transplant
- Stent Placement
- Transplant Bioinformatics
- Transplant Evaluation
- Transplant Glomerulopathy Treatment
- Transplant Immunology
- Transplant Nephrectomy
- Transplant Nutrition Counseling
- Ureteral Dilation
- Ureteroneocystostomy
- Urinary Filtration Performance
- Urologic Surgery
- Venous Access Device Removal
- Viral Gastroenteritis Treatment
- Voiding Cystourethrogram
Practice locations
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3800 Reservoir Rd NW
Pasquerilla Healthcare Center 2nd Fl
Washington, DC, 20007
Insurance
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List of insurance plans we accept
- Aetna
- CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield of Maryland
- Cigna Health Care
- Kaiser Permanente*
- MedStar Select (Administered by CareFirst)
- United HealthCare
- Aetna
- CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield of Maryland
- Healthspring
- Humana
- Medicare & Railroad Medicare
- United HealthCare
- Aetna Better Health of Maryland *
- Medical Assistance/Medicaid
- MedStar Family Choice MD
- Priority Partners *
- United HealthCare Community Health Plan MD
- Wellpoint MD
- AmeriHealth Caritas
- Health Services For Children With Special Needs (HSCSN)
- Medical Assistance/Medicaid
- MedStar Family Choice DC
- Johns Hopkins Employer Health Programs *
- Johns Hopkins US Family Health Plan *
- MultiPlan
- Private Healthcare Systems
- Tricare/Humana Military
- VA Community Care Network (VACCN)
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Education
Board Certification: American Board of Surgery, General Surgery
Residency: Lahey Clinic Medical Center-GME (2011)
Medical School: Harvard Medical School (2000)