Dr. Michael L. Kueht II is an Assistant Professor in Transplant Surgery in the Department of Surgery at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, Texas. He earned his Doctor of Medicine (MD) at UTMB in 2012 and went on to complete his internship and residency training in general surgery at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, from 2012-2017. Upon completing his residency, Dr. Kueht remained at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston to train in an abdominal transplantation fellowship from 2017-2019.

Dr. Kueht has been involved with medical research for over a decade and has authored over 45 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Since 2013, he has researched liver disease and surgical risk stratification, as well as outcomes in abdominal transplantation. Dr. Kueht joined the transplant surgery team at UTMB in 2019.