- Specialties
- Pediatric Surgery
- Transplant
- Areas of Interest/Focus
- Pediatric Transplant
- Transplant
- Board Affiliation/Certification
- American Board of Surgery
- American Board of Surgery/Pediatric Surgery
- Education
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, 1983
- Residency
- Massachusetts General Hospital, 1986
- Massachusetts General Hospital, 1990
- Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1993
- Fellowships
- Massachusetts General Hospital, 1988
- Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1995
- Languages
- English
- Spanish
- Gender
- Male
Texas Liver Tumor Center
7979 Wurzbach Road
Suite 219, Urschel Bldg
San Antonio,TX 78229
Suite 219, Urschel Bldg
San Antonio,TX 78229
- Insurance Accepted
- 6 Degrees - Transplant
- 90 Degree Benefits - Commercial
- Aetna - Commercial Exchange
- Aetna - PPO/EPO/HMO/MC Advantage
- Aetna - Smart Care EPO
- Aetna - Transplant
- Aetna Better Health - Medicaid-CHIP
- Aetna Better Health - Medicaid-STAR
- Amerigroup (Gonzaba) - Medicare Advantage (Transplants only)
- Amerigroup - Medicaid-CHIP
- Amerigroup - Medicaid-CHIP Perinate
- Amerigroup - Medicaid-STAR
- Amerigroup - Medicaid-STAR Kids
- Amerigroup - Medicaid-STAR PLUS
- Amerigroup - Medicare Advantage
- Amerigroup - Medicare-Medicaid Duals
- Ancira Enterprises - Direct Employer
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas - Exchange (BlueAdvantage)
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas - HMO/PPO
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas - HPN/EPO (Narrow Network)
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas - Medicaid-STAR
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas - Medicare Advantage HMO
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas - Medicare Advantage PPO
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas - Narrow HMO (Blue Essentials)
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas - Narrow HMO (Blue Premier)
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas - Traditional
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas - Transplant Programs
- Care Improvement Plus - Medicare Advantage-SNP
- Cenpatico - Medicaid-CHIP
- Cenpatico - Medicaid-STAR
- Cenpatico - Medicaid-STAR Health (Foster Care)
- Cenpatico - Medicare Advantage
- Cigna (USSA Client Only) - Direct Employer
- Community First Health Plans - HMO/Exchange (EPO)
- Community First Health Plans - Medicaid-CHIP
- Community First Health Plans - Medicaid-CHIP Perinate
- Community First Health Plans - Medicaid-STAR
- Community First Health Plans - Medicaid-STAR Kids
- Community First Health Plans - Medicare Advantage HMO
- Coventry - HMO/PPO
- Coventry - Work Comp / Auto
- Driscoll Health Plan - Medicaid-All
- EBSO - TPA
- El Paso First - Medicaid-CHIP
- El Paso First - Medicaid-STAR
- Entrust - TPA
- First Health - Commercial PPO
- FirstCare (Part of Scott & White Health Plans) - Medicaid-STAR
- Gonzaba Medical Group - Transplant ONLY
- Healthsmart - Accel
- Healthsmart - Commercial PPO
- Healthsmart - HPO/POS
- Humana - Commercial Behavioral Health
- Humana - Exchange (HMOx)
- Humana - HMO/PPO/Behavioral Health
- Humana - Medicare Advantage Behavioral Health
- Humana - Medicare Advantage HMO (Gold)
- Humana - Medicare Advantage PPO
- Humana - National Transplant ONLY Network
- Humana Military - TRICARE
- Imperial Health Plan - Medicare Advantage
- Independent Medical Systems (IMS) - PPO
- Interlink - Transplant
- LifeTrac - Transplant
- Magellan - Commercial and Medicaid Behavioral Health
- Molina - Commercial Exchange
- Molina - Medicaid-CHIP
- Molina - Medicaid-CHIP Perinate
- Molina - Medicaid-STAR
- Molina - Medicare Advantage
- Molina - Medicare-Medicaid Duals
- OptumHealth - Transplant ONLY
- Oscar - Commercial Exchange
- Point Comfort Underwriters (PCU) - Refugee Medical Assistance
- Point Comfort Underwriters (PCU) - Unaccompanied Children
- Prime Health Services - Commercial PPO
- Prime Health Services - Medicare Advantage
- ProCare Advantage - Medicare Advantage I-SNP
- Provider Network of America (PNOA) - Commercial
- Provider Partners Health Plan (PPHP) - Medicare Advantage I-SNP
- Scott & White Health Plan - HMO/PPO/Medicare Advantage
- Superior HealthPlan - Medicaid-CHIP
- Superior HealthPlan - Medicaid-CHIP Perinate
- Superior HealthPlan - Medicaid-STAR
- Superior HealthPlan - Medicaid-STAR Health (Foster Care)
- Superior HealthPlan - Medicaid-STAR Kids
- Superior HealthPlan - Medicaid-STAR PLUS
- Superior HealthPlan - Medicare Advantage (Allwell)
- Superior HealthPlan - Medicare-Medicaid Duals (Allwell)
- Texas Independence Health Plan - Medicare Advantage I-SNP
- Three Rivers Provider Network - PPO
- Tokio Marine - Transplant
- TriWest (via BCBSTX) - VA CCN Program
- UnitedHealthcare - Medicaid-STAR
- UnitedHealthcare - Medicaid-STAR Kids
- UnitedHealthcare - Medicaid-STAR PLUS
- UnitedHealthcare - Medicare Advantage
- UnitedHealthcare - PPO
- Universal Benefits Consortium - Brokerage Firm (School Districts)
- University of Incarnate Word (Gilsbar) - Direct Employer
- WellCare - Medicare Advantage
- WellMed - Medicare Advantage
- WellPoint (Gonzaba) - Medicare Advantage (TRANSPLANTS ONLY)
- WellPoint - Medicaid-CHIP
- WellPoint - Medicaid-CHIP Perinate
- WellPoint - Medicaid-STAR
- WellPoint - Medicaid-STAR Kids
- WellPoint - Medicaid-STAR PLUS
- WellPoint - Medicare Advantage
- WellPoint - Medicare-Medicaid Duals
Please contact your health insurance company to confirm provider participation. For billing and insurance questions, please call our Billing Department at 210-358-3260.
- I am a nationally renowned transplant surgeon. I received my bachelor’s degree in biology from Yale University and my medical degree from The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. I completed fellowships in pediatric surgery and transplant surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. I have been a UT Health faculty member since 1995 and was part of the surgical team that performed the first split liver donor transplant between two recipients in Texas.
- In 2003, President George W. Bush appointed me to serve on the President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science. In 2009, I became the first Hispanic to be named Chancellor of The University of Texas System. After five years as chancellor, I returned full-time to my passion for transplant and hepatobiliary surgery. I am fluent in Spanish and English. I have also contributed to many notable publications in my field.
Abstracts
- Washburn WK, Speeg KV, Guerrero JA, Havranek R, Esterl RM, Abrahamian GA, Cigarroa FG, Halff GA. MELD: Impact of Hepatocellular Carcinoma on the Adult Liver Transplant Waiting List 2003. p. 374A. (Hepatology; vol. 38).
- Pollack MS, Havranek, R, Halff GA, Esterl RM, Washburn WK, Cigarroa FG, Speeg KV. Liver Transplant Recipients with Positive T-cell Cross-matches Have Excess Mortality. 2000 Oct. p. s91-s91. (Human Immunology; vol. 61, no. Sup 2).
- Elshihabi I, Agustin J, Cigarroa FG, Arar MY. Combined liver-kidney transplantation in a child with primary hyperoxaluria type I. 1998. p. 67. (Pediatr Transplantation; vol. 2, no. sup 1).
Book Chapters
- Neigut D, Cigarroa FG. Biliary atresia. In Mattei P (editor): Surgical Directives: Pediatric Surgery. In: Biliary atresia. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2003. p. Sect X.
- Raheb J, Esterl RM, Washburn WK, Cigarroa FG, Halff GA. A Revisited Technique to Salvage Failed End to Side Radiocephalic Fistulae for Chronic Hemodialysis. In: Henry ML, Ed. Vascular Access for Hemodialysis VII. WL Gore and Access Medical Group, Ltd.; 2001. p. 01 - 02.
- Raheb J, Esterl RM, Washburn WK, Cigarroa FG, Halff GA. Ischemic Monomelic Neuropathy as a Complication of Forearm PTFE Loop Grafts in Uremic Diabetic Patients. In: Henry ML, Ed. Vascular Access for Hemodialysis VII. WL Gore and Access Medical Group, Ltd.; 2001. p. 001 - 002.
- Cigarroa FG. Liver Transplantation in the Management of Patients with Biliary Diseases In: In: La Benge JM(Editor in Chief). The Radiological Society of North America. 1995. p. 118 - 128.
- Cigarroa FG. The Harriet Lane Handbook In: In Johnson KB. The Harriet Lane Handbook. 1993. p. 3 - 11.
- Cigarroa FG Donahoe PK. Laryngotracheoesophageal Clefts In: Grans SL (Editor) WB Saunders Company. Tracheal Reconstruction in Infancy. 1991. p. 65 - 78.
- Cigarroa FG Fritze, Danielle. Cholesdistal Cysts: Hepatic-Pancreatico-Biliary and Transplant Surgery In: In Press. Practical assignments of Dilemmas.
Editorials
- Cigarroa FG, Jay CL. Disparities in living Donor Kidney Transplantation: Related to Poverty, Race, or Ethnicity? Journal of the American Medical Association 2018 Jan;319(1):24-26.
- Cigarroa FG. Journal of the American Medical Association Journal of the American Medical Association..
Journal Articles
- Cigarroa FG. The Beauty of Medicine in UT Health Science Center Ethics Connective Tissue 2013;Vol V(1-6).
- Cigarroa FG. The University of Texas System: Leadership for Reform and Rejuvenation of Texas Health Care in Texas Heart Institute Journal 2010;37(6).
- Cigarroa F. The UT System: Leadership for reform and rejuvenation of Texas Health Care Texas Heart Institute Journal 2010;37(6):665-666.
- Ramirez, AG; Vela, L; Cigarroa, FG. A Model for Health Professional Education in South Texas Journal of Hispanic Higher Education 2008 Apr;Vol 7(2):183-194.
- Cigarroa FG. Responding to a Culture-Based Health Need Journal of the American College of Dentists 2008;75(4):8-10.
- Cigarroa FG. Liver Transplantation at The University of Texas Health Science Center/University Hospital in San Antonio Clinical Transplants 2004:247-253.
- Washburn WK, Dodd GD III, Kohlmeier RE, McCoy VA, Napier DH, Hubbard LG, Halff GA, Esterl RM, Cigarroa FG, Sharkey FE. Radiofrequency tissue ablation: effect of hepatic blood flow occlusion on thermal injuries produced in cirrhotic livers. Ann Surg Oncol 2003 Aug;10(7):773-777.
- Cigarroa FG. Radiofrequency tissue ablation: effect of hepatic blood flow occlusion on thermal injuries produced in cirrhotic livers. Ann Surg Oncol 2003 Aug;10(7):773-777.
- Fisch SI, Vela L, Wartman SA, Cigarroa FG. Community-based medical education: two campuses, one faculty, one school. Tex Med 2002 Aug;98(8):52-54.
- Mejia A, Halff GA, Esterl R, Cigarroa F, Speeg KV, Villarreal R, Washburn K. Outcome of Liver Transplantation in Hispanics versus Non-Hispanics: Is There a Difference? Transplant Proc 2002 Jun;34(4):1236-1238.
- Cigarroa FG. Sonographically Observed Echogenic Response during Intraoperative Radiofrequency Ablation of Cirrhotic Livers: Pathologic Correlation American Journal of Radiology 2002 May;178(5):1147-1151.
- Leyendecker JR, Dodd GD, Halff GA, McCoy VA, Napier DH, Hubbard LG, Chintapalli KN, Chopra S, Washburn WK, Esterl RM, Cigarroa FG, Kohlmeier RE, Sharkey FE. Sonographically observed echogenic response during intraoperative radiofrequency ablation of cirrhotic livers: pathologic correlation. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2002 May;178(5):1147-1151.
- Bingener-Casey J, Esterl RM, Kenneth Washburn W, Cigarroa FG, Abrahamian GA, Halff GA. Tc-99m-labeled Red Blood Cell Scanning Localizes Anastomotic Hemorrhage Between the Distal Ileum and Duodenal Stump of an Enteric-drained Pancreas Transplant. Clin Nucl Med 2002 Mar;27(3):205-206.
- Cigarroa FG. Outcome of Liver Transplantation in Hispanics Versus Non-Hispanics: Is there a Difference? Transplantation Proceedings 2001 Feb;34:1236-1238.
- Lange RA, Hillis LD, Cigarroa FG, Rapp AH, Keeley EC. Prevalence of coronary artery disease in patients with aortic stenosis with and without angina pectoris. Am J Cardiol 2001;88:1212-1213.
- Cigarroa FG. Steroid elimination 24 hours after Liver Transplantation using daclizumab, tacrolimus, and mycophenolate mofetil Transplantation 2001 Nov;72(10):1675-1679.
- Washburn K, Speeg KV, Esterl R, Cigarroa F, Pollack M, Tourtellot C, Maxwell P, Halff G. Steroid Elimination 24 hours After Liver Transplantation Using Daclizumab, Tacrolimus, and Mycophenolate Mofetil. Transplantation 2001 Nov;72(10):1675-1679.
- Schwesinger WH, Richards ML, Cigarroa FG, Heim-Hall J. Difficulty swallowing in a young child. Grand Rounds Current Surgery 2000;57(5):446-449.
- Cai TH, Esterl RM, Nichols L, Cigarroa F, Speeg KV, Halff GA. Improved Immunosuppression with Combination Tacrolimus (FK506) and Mycophenolic Acid in Orthotopic Liver Transplantation. Transplant Proc 1998 Jun;30(4):1413-1416.
- Ratner LE, Cigarroa FG, Bender JS, Magnuson T, Kraus ES. Transplantation of single and paired pediatric kidneys into adult recipients. J Am Coll Surg 1997 Nov;185(5):437-445.
- Colombani PM, Cigarroa FG, Schwarz K, Wise B, Maley WE, Klein AS. Liver transplantation in infants younger than 1 year of age. Ann Surg 1996 Jun;223(6):658-662.
- Ratner LE, Ciseck LJ, Moore RG, Cigarroa FG, Kaufman HS, Kavoussi LR. Laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy. Transplantation 1995 Nov;60(9):1047-1049.
- Eckhardt WF, Patafio O, Cigarroa FG. A retained esophageal stethoscope as a potential cause of small bowel obstruction. Anesth Analg 1992 Feb;74(2):300-302.
- Lange RA, Cigarroa FG, Hillis LD, Wells PJ, Kremers MS. Influence of antegrade flow in the infarct artery on the incidence of late potentials in acute myocardial infarction Am J Cardiol 1990;65:554-558.
- Cigarroa FG, Coughlin JP, Donahoe PK, White MF, Uitvlugt N, MacLaughlin DT. Recombinant human müllerian inhibiting substance inhibits epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase. Growth Factors 1989;1(2):179-191.
- Cigarroa FG, Kim SH, Donahoe PK. Imperforate anus with long but apparent low fistula in females. J Pediatr Surg 1988 Jan;23(1 Pt):42-44.
- Cigarroa FG. Leading an Academic Health Center in the 21st Century: A Pediatric Surgeon's Perspective Journal of Pediatric Surgery.
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