Dr. Liza Johannesson

Medical Director Uterus Transplant
Baylor University Medical Center

Dr. Liza Johannesson, M.D., Ph.D., is a graduate of the Karolinska Institute, Sweden. She completed training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden, followed by training in gynecologic oncology at Sahlgrenska University Hospital and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia. She presented her PhD thesis about Uterus Transplantation in primates in 2012 and was a pivotal part of the world pioneering first clinical human trial of Uterus Transplantation in Sweden that resulted in the first birth after Uterus Transplantation in the world. She was recruited by Baylor University Medical Center in 2017 to build up a new Uterus Transplant Program. The program resulted in the first birth after Uterus Transplant in the US in 2017 and is today the largest and most successful Uterus Transplant program in the world. Dr Johannesson serves as the Medical Director of Uterus Transplantation and is an Associate Professor of Surgery at Texas A&M, Rush University and Texas Christian University (TCU).

Dr. Johannesson is actively involved in the US Uterus Transplant Consortium (USUTC) where she is the current president, in the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS), where she currently is the co-chair of the Vascular Composite Allograft Committee, in the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) where she is a member of the Vascular Composite Allograft Committee and of the genitourinary workgroup, in the American Society of Reconstructive Transplantation (ASRT) as a board member, and in the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) where she is the President of the special interest group of Uterus Transplantation. She is a Founding Member of both the International Society of Uterus Transplantation (ISUTX) and the USUTC. Dr. Johannesson is an active researcher with more than 100 publications and is invited to lecture worldwide on current issues in the field of Uterus Transplantation.