Dr. Jorge Martinez-ulloa Organ Transplant Surgeon

About Dr. Jorge Martinez-Ulloa

Dr. Martínez-Ulloa is a frequent figure in the North American media speaking about kidney transplant surgery. His extensive training includes graduating from medical school with honors from the prestigious “La Salle” University in Mexico City, where he earned certification of high performance by the National Evaluation Center (CENEVAL) in the degree of General Medicine with both a specialty in General Surgery and Transplant Surgery. He also trained at the top university hospitals in Mexico City, as well as at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, FL. He completed a Transplant Fellowship with the National Medical Center “La Raza”, at the Mexican Institute for Social Security.

His transplant team has performed more than 400 kidney transplant surgeries in the Baja California region. Dr. Martinez-Ulloa opened in Tijuana a few years ago, the kidney transplant program in the biggest public health system in the country (IMSS), and performed the fist cadaveric multiorgan procurement surgery, the fist cadaveric kidney transplant, and the fist laparoscopic kidney nephrectomy at this institution, in the history of Baja California.

Dr. Martinez-Ulloa is considered to be among the top ten kidney transplant surgeons in North America. In October 2009, Dr. Martinez-Ulloa was honored by Mexican President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, with the award for his exceptional service in the field of transplant surgery, in the state of Baja California.

He is a university staff professor, and has been featured speaker at numerous national forums. His speaking topics included:

• Kidney Transplant Surgery
• Laparoscopic Nephrectomy
• The process of organ and tissue donation
• Management of kidney transplantation and cadaveric donors
• Multiorgan Cadaveric Transplantation
• Preemptive transplantation
• Refractary medical management of arterial hypertension. Pretransplant laparoscopic nephrectomy
• Laparoscopic drainage of lymphocele
• Kidney transplantation using perflourocarbonates
• Kidney transplantation in Fabry disease
• Light chain deposition disease should be considered a contraindication for kidney transplantation
• CMV in kidney transplantation
• CMV Retinitis without compromise of the graft
• Kidney transplantation and tuberculosis
• Risk of Thrombosis in Kidney Transplantation
• Thromboelastography Monitor

Dr. Martínez-Ulloa has hospital appointments at the following institutions:

• Mexican Social Security Institute-Chief of Transplant Surgery/Transplant Surgery Attending
• Mexican Social Security Institute-Chief of Transplant Surgery/Transpalnt Surgery Attending
• Hospital Angeles Tijuana-Committee member for Kidney Transplantation
• Prado Hospital-Committee member for Kidney Transplantation

Dr. Martinez-Ulloa’s academic appointments include:

• Associate Professor- General Surgery
  Xochicalco University and Autonomous University of Baja California, January 2007- Present
• Associate Professor-Nutrition
  Iberoamerican University, January-June 2007
• Assistant Professor - 3rd yr medical students
  Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) 2005
• Chief Resident. General , Surgery Assistant Professor
  Spanish Hospital of Mexico, 2004
• Assistant Professor - The William J. Harrington Medical Conferences
  University of Miami, School of Medicine 1999
• Assistant Professor - Biochemistry
  La Salle University, 1996-1998

Degrees & Professional Affiliations

• Doctor of Medicine - University La Salle, Mexico City
• Medical Internship - University of Miami, School of Medicine, Jackson Memorial Hospital
• General Surgery Residency - Spanish Hospital of Mexico, Mexico City
• Transplant Fellowship - Certified by the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City