Cataldo Doria, MD, PhD
Director, Division of Transplantation
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Associate Professor |
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1100 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
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About Dr. Doria
Cataldo Doria, MD, PhD, is Associate Professor of Surgery and Director of the Division of Transplantation at Jefferson Medical
College of Thomas Jefferson University. The new Jefferson multi-organ transplant surgeon has extensive expertise in cadaveric
and living related liver and kidney transplant, pancreas transplant, small-bowel transplant as well as liver and pancreatic
resection and surgery of the bile duct.
Dr. Doria comes to Jefferson from the Mediterranean Institute for Transplantation and Advanced Specialized Therapies (IsMeTT-
UPMC Italy)-- a partnership between the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the Italian National Government-- where
he most recently served as Chief of Abdominal Organ Transplant.
He also served as Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and at the Thomas E. Starzl
Transplantation Institute, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Pittsburgh.
His research interests include issues in liver transplantation, use of artificial liver and liver resection for cancer treatment.
Dr. Doria's biography has been listed in Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare.
Dr. Doria is a member of numerous professional and scientific societies including the Cell Transplant Society, the Academy
of Surgical Research, the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the Italian Association Professors of Surgery, the Transplantation
Society, the Italian Society of Surgery, the International Liver Transplantation Society, the European Society for Organ Transplantation,
the American Society of Transplantation, the International College of Surgeons (United States Section), and the American Society
of Transplant Surgeons.
He completed a research fellowship in small bowel transplantation at the University of Pittsburgh Transplantation Institute
and a clinical fellowship in multi-organ transplantation at the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute at the University
of Pittsburgh. He earned his Ph.D. in Immunology in 2006.
Dr. Doria has personally performed more than 250 liver transplants, and authored over 130 publications.
Education:
- BA: F.S. Cabrini, Taranto, Italy
- MD: University of Perugia, School of Medicine, Perugia-Italy
- PhD: University of Catania, School of Medicine, Catania-Italy
Postgraduate Training:
- Internship: University of Perugia, Department of Surgery, Perugia-Italy
- Residency: Post-Graduate School of General Surgery, University of Perugia, School of Medicine, Perugia-Italy
- Research Fellowship (Transplantation): Department of Surgery, Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
- Clinical Fellowship: Multiorgan Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh Schoold of Medicine,
Pittsburgh, PA
- PhD (Immunology): University of Catania, Catania-Italy
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