Preston Foster

Preston Foster, MD, FACS established the Liver Transplant Program at Texas Transplant Institute for Methodist Hospital | Specialty and Transplant. He was one of the first Fellows in Transplantation Surgery certified by the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, he is also Board Certified in General Surgery, and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery.

Dr. Foster graduated from Baylor University with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry, obtained his medical degree at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, and trained in general surgery at the University of Tennessee Medical School in Memphis. He participated in one of the only two liver transplant programs in the country as a resident during the very early years of liver transplantation.

Dr. Foster joined the Rush transplant team as an attending physician in 1988 and served on the Transplantation Surgery faculty. He staffed more than 700 liver transplants and participated in the care of thousands of liver failure patients during his tenure at Rush, making him one of the most experienced active liver transplant surgeons in the country.

Dr. Foster is widely published on the topics of liver and small intestinal transplantation, immunosuppressant strategies and medications, and contributed to one of the first textbooks written on liver transplantation (Hepatic Transplantation, Saunders, 1990).