Christie W. Gooden, M.D., M.P.H. is a multi-organ transplant surgeon at Medical City Dallas. Her special interests include pediatric and adult kidney, pancreas and liver transplantation as well as dialysis access surgery and advanced laparoscopic and robotic surgery. Dr. Gooden received her bachelor of science in biology from Xavier University of Louisiana. She then went on to receive a 4-year dual degree, Medical Doctorate and Masters of Public Health in Health Systems Management, from Tulane University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. Dr. Gooden completed her residency in general surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center. During her residency she was a NIH scholar, working in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Cardiovascular Transplant Laboratory. She then completed an American Society of Transplant Surgeons’ accredited fellowship at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.Dr. Gooden started her multi-organ career at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, MO where she was the Director of the Kidney Transplant Program and the founder and director of the Dialysis Access Center. Throughout her career, she has served on several regional and national boards and committees including the ASTS TACC committee, UNOS Minority Affairs committee and 2 separate ESRD Network review boards and committees. Currently, she is the Director of the Pediatric Transplant program at Medical City Dallas and the Director of the North Texas Dialysis Access Clinic.She is a published author, accomplished speaker and most important a wife and mother of teenaged twins.