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Enrico Benedetti, MD

Translational Oncology Research Program

Warren H. Cole Chair in Surgery, Professor, Department Head
Department of Surgery
College of Medicine

Email: enrico@uic.edu

Enrico Benedetti, MD, is the Warren H. Cole Chair in Surgery, Professor and Head of Surgery at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at UIC and a transplant surgeon at UI Health. He is a prominent leader in organ transplantation and in the use of robotic-assisted techniques in transplantation. He has extensive experience in clinical kidney transplantation (over 1,500 cases performed and followed-up). His many successful surgical firsts include the first robotic donor nephrectomy for a living-donor kidney transplant, the first combined living-donor liver and bowel transplant from an adult to an infant, the first robotic combined kidney and pancreas procurement for a living-donor transplant, and the largest series of living-donor intestinal transplants in the world. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles, mostly focused on solid organ transplantation.

Language : English, Italian, Spanish

Education

  • MD, University of Florence Medical School

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Research Focus

  • Translational Oncology
  • Breast
  • Colorectal
  • Pancreatic
  • Liver
  • Transplants