I'm Dr. James Eason. I'm the Chief of Transplantation
at HCA Florida Largo Hospital. The types of patients that come to me
is a variety based on liver disease,
kidney disease, and pancreatic disease. I primarily do liver transplantation
and kidney transplants, and I do hepatobiliary pancreatic surgery,
which means any type of complex surgery
related to the liver, to the pancreas, and to the biliary trade, to the bile
ducts, including the gall bladder. So I take out liver cancers,
liver tumors of any kind. Pancreatic tumors, pancreatic cancer and bile duct tumors, as well as usually hepatobiliary and liver transplant
surgeons also end up doing more complicated
gallbladder surgery patients who may have cirrhosis
as or other more complicated patients. I was recruited here because of my
reputation as a program builder. I previously built the program
at the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans and turned it into one of the largest
programs in the United States. Also the program at the University of
Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis and turned it into one of the largest
transplant programs in the United States. We bring now this complex care, complex surgery complex transplant
care to Pinellas County, which is a very large area,
over a million people that really has not been accessible here
before. So people don't have to drive
even across the bay. They don't have to go too
far away, bigger cities to get this complex care
because we provide it right here. And along with my partners,
we expect that we will become one of the leading programs
in the United States again. Everyone we see, we look at as a potential patient
and we're going to be very aggressive in trying to make sure that we can address
all of their medical needs to have them a successful
operation, a successful transplant and or successful removal of their cancer. It may involve evaluating their heart and other parts of their body
because everything is interconnected. However, our default is yes,
we want to make sure that we give everyone the opportunity.