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Michael Kwan, MD, FACC

Program Director, Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Program
UT Health- San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas, United States

Michael Kwan, MD, FACC is the Program Director of the Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Program at Methodist Hospital, San Antonio, Texas. He graduated from the Johns Hopkins University with a BA in Behavioral Science, obtained his doctorate at Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois, trained in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at Brooke Army Medical Center, and 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, and served as the medical director of the military’s only cardiac transplant program.

Dr. Kwan 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 in Iraq. After returning from overseas in 2004, he joined the Methodist Heart Hospital in San Antonio 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 Hospital, San Antonio. He 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 UT Health - San Antonio, and the Director of Heart Failure Education at the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium, and has been named to Marquis Who’s Who for 2026.

Dr. Kwan has served as the Chief of Staff of the Methodist Hospital, San Antonio, 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.

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