Invited Faculty - Francis Delmonico

Francis L Delmonico, M.D. FACS is Professor of Surgery Harvard Medical School at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he is Emeritus Director of Renal Transplantation.

He is President of The Transplantation Society and appointed as an Advisor to the World Health Organization in matters of organ donation and transplantation.

Dr. Delmonico is the Medical Director of the New England Organ Bank.

In 2005, Dr. Delmonico was elected President of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the federally designated Organ Procurement Transplant Network (OPTN) that oversees the practice of transplantation in the United States.

Dr. Delmonico is a former board member of the National Kidney Foundation and a recipient of the NKF’s David M. Hume lifetime achievement award. He was a co-recipient of the Price of Asturias award on behalf of The Transplantation Society for his efforts in the establishment of the Declaration of Istanbul. Dr. Delmonico is the recipient of the Shumakov Medal from the Moscow Institute of Transplantation. As a former Councilor of the American Society of Transplantation, Dr. Delmonico was also a recipient of the AST’s Senior Clinician Award. As an Alumnus of Mount St. Mary's College, he is the recipient of the Founder’s Bruté Medal.

Dr. Delmonico has been an invited lecturer and Visiting Professor in numerous cities and universities in more than 60 countries throughout the world.  He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Pan American University of Mexico City. He has authored or co-authored more than 250 publications in the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New York Times. He has appeared on numerous television and radio programs including Nightline, Good Morning America, CBS Sunday Morning America, Bloomberg News and NPR News.