Charles W. Hoopes, MD

Dr. Hoopes has become an international thought leader in mechanical circulatory support, heart and lung transplantation, and artificial organ implantation. His partnership with Dr. Roberto Gedaly and the abdominal transplant team has resulted in the University of Kentucky becoming the state’s largest solid organ transplant center (heart, lung, kidney, and liver).

Dr. Hoopes has led the University of Kentucky Transplant Center to become the largest pediatric cystic fibrosis transplant center in the country and has pioneered therapies such as ambulatory extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for those patients awaiting transplant.

Dr. Hoopes received his MD from Duke University where he also completed residency in General Surgery. He completed a Thoracic Surgery residency at the University of Michigan and a Thoracic Transplantation fellowship at Duke. Before joining the University of Kentucky, Dr. Hoopes was a thoracic transplant surgeon at the University of California, San Francisco, where he performed more than 300 heart, lung, and combined heart/lung transplants.