John R. Montgomery, MD, and Tsukasa Nakamura, MD, PhD, have joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as liver, kidney, and pancreas transplant surgeons.
Both will also serve as assistant professors in the College of Medicine Department of Surgery.
Montgomery comes to UAMS from New York City, where he completed a two-year fellowship in abdominal transplant surgery at New York University’s Langone Medical Center. Previously, he completed a residency in general surgery at the University of Michigan Medicine, which is a research university in Ann Arbor, and a research fellowship at the University of Michigan’s Center for Healthcare Outcomes & Policy (CHOP).
He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in religion at Duke University in Durham, N.C. in 2010; a medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, S.C. in 2015; and a Master of Science degree in health and health care research at Rackham Graduate School at the University of Michigan in 2020.
Nakamura joins UAMS from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where he completed fellowships in transplant surgery and transplant surgery research, and performed numerous liver and kidney transplant surgeries, including robotic-assisted surgeries.
He received a medical degree from Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine in Kyoto, Japan, in 2008, followed by a doctoral degree, also from the Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, in 2016. He completed a general surgical residency at the same university, followed by a fellowship in abdominal transplant surgery at Massachusetts General.
Both Montgomery and Nakamura see patients at the main UAMS campus and at the nearby Freeway Medical Clinic. Montgomery also sees patients at the UAMS transplant satellite office in Texarkana on the fourth Friday of every month.