Jasleen Kukreja, M.D., M.P.H. is Professor of Surgery and Doris F. and Donald G. Fisher Distinguished Professor in Pulmonary Therapies and Science in the Division of Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), USA. Dr. Kukreja is Program and Surgical director of UCSF Lung Transplantation as well as Director of the Adult Respiratory Mechanical Circulatory Support (ECMO) program.
Dr. Kukreja earned her medical degree from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine, USA. She completed General Surgery residency and a two-year Thoracic Surgery fellowship under the illustrious late Dr. David Sugarbaker at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), Harvard Medical School in Boston. She attended Harvard School of Public Health where she earned a Master of Public Health Degree. Subsequently, she completed a fellowship training in Cardiothoracic Surgery at UCSF where she has remained as faculty.
Under her leadership, the UCSF Lung Transplantation Program has become one of the premiere programs in the country. Dr. Kukreja has received numerous professional honors including the Excellence in Teaching Award at Harvard Medical School, Outstanding Pulmonary Physician Specialist Award and the Special Recognition for Excellence Award from American Board of Cardiology, Top Doctors 2016, 2017, 2020, Exceptional Women in Medicine 2017, 2019, and the inaugural Trailblazing Women in Surgery Muriel Steele Society Award 2019.
Her research focuses on outcomes in Lung Transplantation. She has published extensively and has been invited nationally and internationally to share her expertise. She is proud to have trained the next generation of Lung Transplant surgeons who then went on to lead other Lung Transplant Programs in the country.