The Largest Lung Transplant Program in the Region

The Transplant Center—Doctors, lung/heart-lung

Marshall I. Hertz, MD

Dr. Marshall I. Hertz has been the medical director of the Lung Transplant Program at the University of Minnesota since 1987. Since that time, the program has performed almost 500 lung transplants, including nine living-donor lobar transplants at University of Minnesota Medical Center. Dr. Hertz is also the medical director of the University of Minnesota Center for Advanced Lung Disease, which is focused on research and the care of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary hypertension and cystic fibrosis.

In 2001, Dr. Hertz was awarded a prestigious Program Project Grant from the National Institutes of Health; Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study chronic rejection after lung transplantation. Dr. Hertz has contributed steadily to clinical lung transplant literature during the past 15 years. He has recently published several major review articles related to bronchoilitis obliterans; clinical trials of antiviral and immune suppressive strategies for lung transplant recipients; and original observations related to community respiratory virus infections in lung transplant recipients. He also has led a project to improve the knowledge base of house staff and referring physicians caring for lung transplant recipients. This effort culminated in publication of a Manual of Lung Transplant Medical Care (2nd edition published in 2001).

Specialties

• Pulmonary Medicine
• Critical Care Medicine
• Lung Transplant Medicine

Academics

• Graduated from the University of Michigan in 1978 (cum laude)
• Completed his Residency in 1981 at the University of Minnesota
• Chief Medical Resident at the University of Minnesota 1981-1982
• Completed his Pulmonary Fellowship in 1984
• On the faculty at the University of Minnesota since 1984
• Professor of Medicine since 1996
• Medical Director, University of Minnesota Lung Transplant Program since 1987
• Medical Director, University of Minnesota Advanced Lung Disease Center since 2002

Organizations

• American Thoracic Society since 1983
• Minnesota Thoracic Society, since 1984 (Past President)
• Alpha-1 National Organization since 1993
• International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Scientific Registry, Medical Director since 2001
• American Society of Transplant Surgeons, Thoracic Committee since 2002
• American Society of Transplantation, Board of Directors since 2001