Cataldo Doria

Cataldo Doria graduated magna cum laude from the University of Perugia in 1990. He was a resident in general surgery at the University of Perugia and completed a research fellowship in small bowel transplantation at the University of Pittsburgh Transplantation Institute and a clinical fellowship in multiorgan transplantation at the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute of the University of Pittsburgh. He holds a Ph.D. degree in immunology. Dr. Doria is a Nicoletti Professor of transplant surgery and the Director of the Division of Transplantation at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. He is a multiorgan transplant surgeon with extensive expertise in cadaveric and living-related liver and kidney transplant, pancreas and small-bowel transplant, liver and pancreatic resection, and bile duct’s surgery. Dr. Doria came to Jefferson from the Mediterranean Institute for Transplantation and Advanced Specialized Therapies (IsMeTT- UPMC Italy), a partnership between the University of Pittsburgh and the Italian Government, where he served as a Chief of Abdominal Organ Transplant. He performed the first liver transplant, first live donor nephrectomy, and first live donor hepatectomy in Sicily, Italy. Moreover, he also served as an Assistant Professor of surgery at the University of Pittsburgh and at the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs of Pittsburgh. His research interests include the development of inhibitory pathways for liver cancer growth, immunology of solid organ transplantation, development of artificial liver devices. In 2008, Dr. Doria was named Surgeon of the Year by the Delaware Chapter of the American Liver Foundation. He is the author of 185 publications and a Principal Investigator and Coinvestigator of numerous clinical and basic science research studies. He is a member of numerous scientific societies and serves as an associate editor and an ad hoc reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals.

Biography Updated on 16 March 2010

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