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Dr. Reinaldo Emilio Rampolla-Selles is the co-director of the Lung Transplants Services and transplant pulmonologist at [Oschner Medical Center] in [New Orleans], [Louisisana]. Rampolla-Selles re-opened the Lung Tranplant Services and performed the first lung transplant in the state after the program was shutdown during the [Hurricane Katrina] aftermath.

Life and education

Rampolla-Selles was born on November 22, 1974 in San Juan, Puerto Rico to attorneys Dahlia A. Selles-Iglesias and Reinaldo Rampolla-Briganti (1942-1996). He is the younger of sisters Dahlia and Teresa. Since the beginning of his primary education, Rampolla-Selles was enrolled in a Catholic private school, were his initial interests in science flourished. He always expressed hyis interest in the medical field as he wanted to become a veterinarian. He then attended [Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola] in San Juan, Puerto Rico. After graduating from high school, Rampolla-Selles attended the [University of Puerto Rico]'s Natural Sciences College, becoming a member of [Phi Sigma Alpha Fraternity]. After graduating with a Bachelor's Degree in Sciences, he was accepted to the School of Medical Sciences of the University of Puerto Rico, were he specialized in Internal Medicine.

In 2005, Rampolla-Selles transferred to [Tulane Univeristy] in New Orleans, Louisiana as a Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care and Environmental Medicine Fellow to concentrate in a Pulmonology sub-specialty.

Hurricane Katrina

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana. Rampolla-Selles was one of many health practicioners that stayed behind in New Orleans caring for the sick in one of the city's hospitals. Evacuated five days later, he was temporarilly displaced to Houston, Texas. However, he was so inspired by the strenght and perseverance of New Orleans, that he returned and finished his fellowship in pulmonology in July 2007.

Oschner Medical Center

After this, Rampolla-Selles was invited to participate in [Stanford University]'s Heart-Lung and Lung Transplantation Program. After succesfully completing this program in September 2009, Rampolla-Selles was invited to return to New Orleans as co-director of the Lung Transplant Services for [Oschner Medical Center]. The program was shut down after Hurricane Katrina and the center was trying to revive this service to complete their transplant services. The services re-opened successfully in October 2009.

On February 4, 2010, Rampolla-Selles succesfully transplanted the first lungs transplanted since after Hurricane Katrina.

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