Cataldo Doria, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S., director, Division of Transplant Surgery, in the Department of Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, has been named the Nicoletti Family Professor of Transplant Surgery. This endowed professorship is a generous gift of Robert and Beatrice Nicoletti and their family. The family cited the care they received at Jefferson when Robert received a new kidney donated by his own daughter, as the reason for their donation.
“It is my honor to be the first physician named as the recipient of this Professorship,” said Dr. Doria. “It is very gratifying to accept this honor named after a family with such strong ties and devotion to one another. Their strength and determination as a family reinforces my educational and professional pursuits in researching how transplantation surgery can be improved through traditional and non-traditional techniques such as artificial devices.”
Cataldo Doria, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S.
Dr. Doria is a multi-organ transplant surgeon with extensive expertise in liver and kidney transplantation, as well as numerous other hepato-biliary surgical procedures. He also organized and participated in the first ever laparoscopic nephrectomy with ureterectomy for living related kidney transplantation performed in Sicily, Italy.
His research interests include issues in liver transplantation, transplant immunology, usage of artificial liver, and surgical treatment of liver cancer without usage of blood. Dr. Doria has been listed in Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare, Who's Who in Finance and Industry, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who in America and Guide to America’s Top Physicians. In 2008, he was named “Transplant Surgeon of the Year” by the Delaware Valley Chapter of the American Liver Foundation. Dr. Doria was instrumental in making Jefferson the fastest growing liver transplant program in the region, with the highest patient and graft survival and the lowest mortality rate of those patients on the transplant waiting list. He recently secured the authorization to proceed with live donor liver transplantation.
He 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, AIPAC Associazione Italiana Professori a Contratto (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, and the International College of Surgeons (United States Section), American Society of Transplant Surgeons, American Hepato Pancreato Biliary Association, The Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, American College of Surgeons, Society For The Advancement Of Blood Management and The Society of University Surgeons.