Fernando E. Membreno, MD

Biography

Dr. Fernando Membreño is part of DHR Health Transplant Institute - Liver Specialty Center. Dr. Membreño most recently practiced at the Texas Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, where he had lived since 2006. He is devoted to caring for patients with liver disease, liver transplantation, and advancing liver disease/Hepatitis C treatment/Nash/Liver Cancer through research.

Dr. Membreño graduated cum laude probatus from medical school at the Autonomous School of Medicine in San Jose, Costa Rica in 1995. He completed his internal medicine residency at Staten Island University Hospital in Staten Island, New York. Due to his interest in liver diseases, he completed a gastroenterology/hepatology fellowship and a Master of Science degree in clinical research at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. He then pursued further experience in liver transplantation at the University of Colorado Medical Center in Denver, Colorado, and he is board certified in Transplant Hepatology.