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Meet Our Team
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Joseph B. Africa, MD, is an active staff member of the Cleveland Clinic Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute and Transplant Center. Dr. Africa graduated from the University of Santo Tomas (Philippines) Pre-Med BS Biology-Accelerated Program (1988) and Faculty of Medicine and Surgery (1993), and was a topnotcher in the Philippine Board of Medical Examinations (1994). He completed his internal medicine residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, East Campus Program in New York, NY (1995-98).
After being certified by the American Board of Medicine in 1998, Dr. Africa returned to the University of Santo Tomas to finish a five-year general surgery residency where he was administrative chief resident for two years and certified by the Philippine Board of Surgery in 2004. He then completed a two-year Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Surgery Fellowship at the Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC (2004-06). Prior to coming to CAMC, Dr. Africa was an attending kidney and pancreas transplant surgeon at the Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute in Washington, DC from 2008-2012.
Dr. Africa’s academic interests include transplant immunosuppression management, specifically the use of Alemtuzumab and minimization protocols, and small-incision recipient transplant surgery. He has been involved in transplant fellow and general surgery resident teaching and training in the Philippines as Vice Chairman at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute and at the Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute.
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Dr. Bashir Sankari’s main interests are in renal transplant, general and pediatric urology, and renovascular surgery. He received this MD from the American University of Beirut in 1981. He did his postgraduate urology residency training at St. Louis University School of Medicine from 1981 to 1986. He completed a fellowship in renal transplantation and renovascular surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation from 1989 through 1991. He became board certified in urology in 1989. He has been a member of the urological staff of the Cleveland Clinic since 1991. He is the director of the Cleveland Clinic/CAMC affiliated Renal Transplant Program in Charleston, WV. Dr. Sankari has authored and co-authored several book chapters, articles, abstracts and presentations.
Dr. Sankari has had several academic appointments over the years. He previously held the position of instructor then assistant professor in the department of surgery, section of urology at St. Louis University School of Medicine from 1987 through 1991. He currently holds part time appointments as Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery with the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. He currently participates in a teaching role with the West Virginia University Surgical Residency Program and the CAMC Urology Residency Program.
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Shih-Chieh Chueh, MD, PhD, serves as Clinical Professor of Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, staff of Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, and Transplant Center – Cleveland Clinic Foundation; Primary surgeon, CAMC kidney transplant program, staff of CAMC Physicians Group, Charleston, WV, and also as an adjunct Professor of Urology, National Taiwan University. He was a Professor of Urology at National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, before the current post. He was also a trustee of the Taiwan Society of Endoscopic Surgeon and Taiwan Transplantation Society; and a Supervisor of Taiwan Urological Association.
Dr. Chueh specializes in renal transplantation and urological laparoscopic surgery. He has been invited internationally for live demonstrations of many laparoscopic procedures, including laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy.
Dr. Chueh received his medical degree (summa cum laude) and PhD from Taipei Medical University and National Taiwan University in 1989 and 2002, respectively. He completed a kidney transplant fellowship at UT-Houston under Professor Barry Kahan (1996-1997). Being the first surgeon in Taiwan to perform a successful laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy (LDN), he introduced the procedure in China and the Philippines. In 2010, he successfully advanced it to single site LESS-LDN as the UNOS Primary Surgeon of CAMC, WV kidney transplant program.
Dr. Cheuh’s accomplishments have been attested by academic publications in highly cited peer-reviewed academic journals. He has more than 135 peer-reviewed Scientific Citation Index (SCI) articles, serves on the editorial boards of two SCI journals (Transplantation Proceedings and JMFA), and serves as an Invited Reviewer for several other SCI journals. Among the majority of his publications he was either the first author or the corresponding author, which identifies his important contributions. Dr. Chueh is especially innovative in performing laparoscopic surgery with mini-instruments or single-port surgery.
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