Dr. Milagros SamaniegoPicota

Dr. Milagros Samaniego-Picota is recognized by Continental Who’s Who as a Platinum Lifetime Member in the field of Medicine. Established since 1850, University of Michigan Medical School was the first medical school to recognize the importance of physician instruction. In executing their science based curriculum, the medical school was able to start in the development of medical research.

She is currently the Medical Director of the Kidney and Kidney-Pancreas Transplant Program, and the Transplant Nephrology Fellowship at the University of Michigan Medical School. In her current role, Dr. Samaniego-Picota’s department handles Kidney transplantation, especially antibody-mediated rejection, management of highly sensitized and high risk kidney transplant recipients, desensitization protocols and ABO incompatible transplantation. Her professional expertise consists of Nephrology, and Internal Medicine. She is also a Professor of Medicine in the Instructional (tenure) track.

Before moving into her position at the University of Michigan Medical School, Dr. Samaniego worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was part of the Section of Nephrology as Associate Professor and Transplant Physician. Throughout the course of her education and training, she earned her Medical degree from the University of Panama before going on to attend Baylor College of Medicine Residency. Additionally, Dr. Samaniego-Picota completed a Fellowship in Internal Medicine Nephrology at Johns Hopkins University. In order to further her professional development, Dr. Samaniego-Picota maintains memberships and associations with many prestigious organizations.

 

She is a member of the American Society of Nephrology, the National Kidney Foundation, and the American College of Physicians. Furthermore, Dr. Samaniego is former Associate Editor of the American Journal of Transplantation, has served on the Basic Science, Education and the Women’s Health Committees of the American Society of Transplantation. She has also participated as lecturer (since 2004) and Chair of the AST Fellows Symposium since 2009, and the 2009-2010 AST Winter Symposium. Licensed to practice medicine in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Maryland , she has been an abstract reviewer for the American Congress of Transplantation for the past 14 years. She has been a post-hoc-reviewer for all major transplantation journals since 2000, and received the ASTP-Sandoz Fellowship Award in Transplantation in addition to grant support from the Maryland Chapter of the National Kidney Foundation due to her outstanding work in her field.