Clinical Specialties

Dr. Bellingham earned her medical degree from the University of Minnesota and completed her residency in General Surgery at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis. She completed a Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at the University of Minnesota and a Transplant Surgery Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin.

Dr. Bellingham joined the University of Wisconsin Transplant Team in 2009, following completion of her Transplant Fellowship. She is certified by the American Board of Surgery. Her practice focuses on kidney, liver and pancreas transplantation. She also is the director of the University of Wisconsin Dialysis Access and ESRD Surgical Clinic.

Dr. Bellingham provides a wide range of services including Kidney Transplant, Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy, Liver Transplant, and Pancreas Transplant.

Research Interests

Dr. Bellingham’s research interests include the outcomes of dialysis access as well as issues with noncompliance in solid organ transplantation.

Recent Publications

• A collaboratively-derived science-policy research agenda.
  Sutherland WJ, Bellingan L, Bellingham JR, Blackstock JJ, Bloomfield RM, Bravo M, Cadman VM, Cleevely DD, Clements A, Cohen AS, Cope DR, Daemmrich AA, Devecchi C, Anadon LD, Denegri S, Doubleday R, Dusic NR, Evans RJ, Feng WY, Godfray HC, Harris P, Hartley SE, Hester AJ, Holmes J, Hughes A, Hulme M, Irwin C, Jennings RC, Kass GS, Littlejohns P, Marteau TM, McKee G, Millstone EP, Nuttall WJ, Owens S, Parker MM, Pearson S, Petts J, Ploszek R, Pullin AS, Reid G, Richards KS, Robinson JG, Shaxson L, Sierra L, Smith BG, Spiegelhalter DJ, Stilgoe J, Stirling A, Tyler CP, Winickoff DE, Zimmern RL
  PLoS ONE 2012; 7(3):e31824.
  [PubMed ID: 22427809, PMC ID: 3302883]
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• A comparison between blood flow outcomes of tunneled external jugular and internal jugular hemodialysis catheters.
  Vats HS, Bellingham J, Pinchot JW, Young HN, Chan MR, Yevzlin AS
  J Vasc Access 2012 Jan-Mar; 13(1):51-4.
  [PubMed ID: 21725948]
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• Donation after cardiac death: a 29-year experience.
  Bellingham JM, Santhanakrishnan C, Neidlinger N, Wai P, Kim J, Niederhaus S, Leverson GE, Fernandez LA, Foley DP, Mezrich JD, Odorico JS, Love RB, De Oliveira N, Sollinger HW, D'Alessandro AM
  Surgery 2011 Oct; 150(4):692-702.
  [PubMed ID: 22000181]
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• Simultaneous liver and kidney transplantation using donation after cardiac death donors: a brief report.
  LaMattina JC, Mezrich JD, Fernandez LA, D'Alessandro AM, Bellingham JM, Musat AI, Foley DP
  Liver Transpl. 2011 May; 17(5):591-5.
  [PubMed ID: 21506247, PMC ID: 3088423]
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• The significance of donor-specific HLA antibodies in rejection and ductopenia development in ABO compatible liver transplantation.
  Musat AI, Agni RM, Wai PY, Pirsch JD, Lorentzen DF, Powell A, Leverson GE, Bellingham JM, Fernandez LA, Foley DP, Mezrich JD, D'Alessandro AM, Lucey MR
  Am. J. Transplant. 2011 Mar; 11(3):500-10.
  [PubMed ID: 21342448]
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