Dr. Vantario Taylor is a proud graduate of the Government High School.

He holds a double associates degree (chemistry-physics) with honors from the College of the Bahamas.

From there he attended the University of the West Indies, first at Mona, Jamaica then at the School of Clinical Medicine and Research (SCMR), obtaining his medical degree.

He started work as a junior doctor at the PMH in the department of Surgery, and joined the DM program in surgery at SCMR which he completed in 2018.

He then promptly began a fellowship in transplant surgery at the university of Calgary in Alberta Canada, a two year program that mostly involved transplanting of kidneys and pancreas.

He returned to the Bahamas in late 2020 and now serves as consultant of team B general surgery at PMH, and an attending at Doctor’s hospital.

He was instrumental in establishing the Renal Transplant Unit at the Princess Margaret Hospital and in drafting legislation related to living and deceased donor transplantation in the Bahamas. Besides general and transplant  surgery, he also has an interest in dialysis access surgery which includes access for peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis.

He was the lead surgeon the first living donor kidney transplant in the Bahamas in over a generation, in June 2025.

He is a fellow of the Caribbean College of Surgeons (FCCS) and of the American College of Surgeons (FACS).

He is married with three beautiful kids and in his spare time enjoys building and fixing computers.