Michael Kwan

Dr. Michael Kwan graduated from the Johns Hopkins University with a BA in Behavioral Science, and obtained his doctorate at Loyola University’s Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois.  He trained in both Internal Medicine and Cardiology at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, and subsequently completed a fellowship in cardiac transplantation at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, Texas. He returned to San Antonio to join the academic faculty of a combined Army and Air Force cardiology fellowship program, and to serve as the medical director of the military’s only cardiac transplant program until 2001.  He participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom as a Battalion Surgeon with the Army’s First Infantry Division, and was awarded the Bronze Star and Army Commendation Medals for his battlefield service while in Iraq. He completed his military career in September of 2004, and joined the physician staff at the Methodist Heart Hospital in San Antonio, Texas as a transplant cardiologist. In 2006, Dr. Kwan became the Medical Director, and then in 2012, the Program Director of the Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Program at the Methodist Heart Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. He also helped establish the Methodist Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic and ECMO Programs, and served as the Associate Director for both. Dr. Kwan is an avid educator, and is a Clinical Professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, TX and the Director of Heart Failure Education at the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium. Dr. Kwan has served as the Chief of Staff of the Methodist Hospital of San Antonio, Texas, as a member of the UNOS Heart Transplantation Committee, the OPTN Membership and Professional Standards Committee, on both the UNOS and OPTN Board of Directors, and most recently as the OPTN Region 4 Councilor.