Transplantation Expert to be Director of Live Donor Liver Transplant Program

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Warren R. Maley, M.D., recently joined the Department of Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (TJUH), and will serve as the director of the Live Donor Liver Transplant Program.  He has also been named an associate professor of Surgery at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University.  Dr. Maley has performed extensive research in the fields of Liver Transplantation and Surgical Therapy to improve patient safety and care.

Dr. Maley received his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1984.  He earned a bachelor of science degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1980. Dr. Maley’s postgraduate training began as an intern in the Department of Surgery at The Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1984-1985.  He also completed a residency in surgery from 1985-1989.

As part of his surgical residency, Dr. Maley served as surgical registrar at The John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, England.  After 6 months in this position, he was appointed as the chief resident in surgery at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore from 1990-1991.  In 1991 he served as a gastrointestinal surgery fellow for one year, and then in 1992 began serving a two-year appointment as a transplant fellow there.  Prior to joining Jefferson, Dr. Maley served as surgical director of Liver Transplantation at The Johns Hopkins Hospital beginning in January of 2005.  He also served as co-director of the Transplant Center at Willis-Knighton/LSU (Louisiana State University) Transplant Service in Shreveport, Louisiana from 2003-2005.  Before that he worked for Allegheny Surgical Associates, Incorporated from 2001-2003.    

Dr. Maley is Board Certified by the American Board of Surgery and is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society.  He is also a member of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases; a member of the American Society of Transplantation; and a member of the American Society of Transplant Surgery.  He has an extensive list of published research studies in such leading journals as Transplant Proceedings, Transplantation, Liver Transplantation and Annals of Surgery; andhas authored or co-authored eight book chapters