Dr. Alana M. Hofmann, MD
Dr. Alana Hofmann, MD, is an advanced general surgeon specializing in hepatobiliary surgery and abdominal transplant. Practicing at Willis Knighton in Shreveport, Louisiana, she evaluates patients for kidney, pancreas, and liver transplantation while performing robotic living donor kidney transplants. She combines surgical precision with technological innovation, advancing minimally invasive techniques to improve recovery and outcomes for her patients.
Her surgical expertise extends to general surgery for transplant patients, including complex hernia repairs and management of hepatobiliary tumors such as hepatocellular carcinoma and hilar cholangiocarcinoma. Dr. Hofmann is an early adopter of emerging therapies, including histotripsy, and actively participates in trials that expand the therapeutic options available to patients with advanced liver disease. She also emphasizes mentorship, training surgical residents, and fostering collaborative, multidisciplinary care.
Dr. Hofmann is committed to expanding transplant services in northwest Louisiana, ensuring that patients have access to high-quality care close to home. She integrates patient-centered care with innovative surgical practices, combining years of rigorous training, fellowship experience, and research with a dedication to education, mentorship, and community outreach.
• University of Missouri-Kansas City – BA/MD Combined 6-Year Program
• University of Central Florida HCA Consortium, Ocala, Florida – General Surgery Residency (5 Years)
• University of Cincinnati – Abdominal Transplant Fellowship
• Doctor of Medicine
• America's Best in Medicine 2026
• American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS)
• Promotes community awareness of living donor transplants
• Patient advocacy for organ donation programs
Presented work at the Red River Renal Symposium
Involved in research and trials using histotripsy for liver tumors
Areas of Specialization/Expertise
- Robotic Kidney Transplant
- Living Donor Kidney Transplant
- Hernia Repairs After Transplant
- Hepatobiliary Tumors
- General Surgery for Transplant Patients
- Surgical Oncology for Transplant
- Hepatocellular Carcinoma
- Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma
What do you enjoy most about practicing medicine?
I specifically liked surgery because of the idea that you can take a surgical problem and really see a cure from it. When someone has gallbladder disease or gallbladder pain, just simply doing a cholecystectomy and removing their gallbladder was enough to kind of take them out of their ailment. It was the same for transplant, and the transplant was just a bigger aspect of it. At University of Cincinnati, I saw a lot of people with hepatocellular carcinoma that was unresectable that we were able to get liver transplants to, and same with specific bile duct cancers, like hilar cholangiocarcinoma. It was kind of this one instance where patients were told that they were inoperable, and then being able to kind of relieve them and get them to transplant. And same with end-stage renal disease. I think it's a really neat process that we've come through since the early 60s and 80s, to be able to take a kidney from a living donor and be able to give it to a person who has end-stage renal disease and really kind of cure them of that ailment. What really drove me to transplant is that, unlike most of surgery where we've been doing this for many, many years, transplant is still way newer, so we have new ways of doing procurements now that actually help utilize more organs, and so we're able to get patients off of their dialysis or their liver ailments a lot quicker.
Locations
Willis Knighton John C. McDonald Transplant Center
2751 Albert Bicknell Drive Suite 4A, Shreveport, LA 71103
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