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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.
Education
- MD, University of Florence Medical School
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Research Focus
- Translational Oncology
- Breast
- Colorectal
- Pancreatic
- Liver
- Transplants