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A transplant surgeon is a surgeon who performs organ transplants. Among the many organs that can be transplanted are: kidneys, livers, hearts, lungs, the pancreas, the intestine (especially the small intestine), and recently, faces, tracheal (windpipe) tissue, and penises.

Contents

• Medical training
• Notable surgeons
• See also
• References

Medical training

Training in the U.S. involves the four years of the undergraduate education, four years of medical school, five years of general surgery residency, followed by a two-year fellowship in transplant surgery. ^[1]

Notable surgeons

• Thomas Starzl – first human liver transplants. Often quoted as the “father of modern transplantation”
• Theodor Kocher – first modern transplant
• James D. Hardy – first successful lung transplant
• Bruce Reitz – first successful heart-lung transplant
• Patrick Soon Shiong – first encapsulated human islet transplant
• David Hickey – trained under Starzl, ^[2] this sportsman was described by the Irish Independent in 2021 as "one of the world's most eminent transplant surgeons" ^[3]

See also

• Transplant surgery

References