Recanati-Miller Transplantation Institute Appoints New Surgical Director of Kidney and Pancreas Transplant
The Mount Sinai Health System is pleased to announce that Ron Shapiro, MD, is the new surgical director of the Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program at The Mount Sinai Hospital’s Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute.
Dr. Shapiro, a leading surgeon with more than 30 years of experience in the field of transplantation, trained under Thomas E. Startzl, a transplant pioneer. He joins Mount Sinai from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine where he was Professor of Surgery and the Robert J. Corry Chair in Transplantation Surgery at the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute. After 26 years with the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Shapiro is returning to The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he completed his internship and residency.
“Mount Sinai welcomes back Dr. Ron Shapiro to lead our kidney and pancreas transplantation program in the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute (RMTI),” says Sander S. Florman, MD, Director of the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute and the Charles Miller, MD, Professor of Surgery. “Dr. Shapiro is an internationally recognized transplantation expert. We are extremely fortunate to have him join us in continuing our firm commitment to offering our patients the very best care possible.”
In his new position at the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute, Dr. Shapiro will oversee the abdominal organ transplantation programs and services specific to adult and pediatric kidney transplantation, as well as adult pancreas transplantation. RMTI is among the most comprehensive transplantation centers in the world, and includes one of the largest living donor programs in the United States.
“It is incredibly exciting to be returning to the center where I trained in general surgery,” says Dr. Shapiro. “I‘m eager to work on developing new regimens that keep the immune system from rejecting transplanted organs without leaving people vulnerable to infections. I am thrilled to be collaborating with the fantastic transplant group already in place.”
Dr. Shapiro is board certified in Surgery with special expertise in Renal Transplant and Pancreas Transplantation. He is also Vice President of the Transplantation Society, and President of the International Pediatric Transplantation Association (until March 2015) He is also on the editorial boards of Transplantation, the American Journal of Transplantation, and Pediatric Transplantation, and is Editor in Chief of Clinical Transplantation. Dr. Shapiro graduated with his medical degree from the Stanford School of Medicine.
Dr. Shapiro has co-authored four books: Atlas of Organ Transplantation, Renal Transplantation, Pancreatic Transplantation and Living Donor Organ Transplantation. He has published more than 380 articles, 65 book chapters, and has given more than 520 lectures. Dr. Shapiro has been repeatedly named by Castle Connolly, Ltd. as one of “America’s Top Doctors.”
About the Mount Sinai Health System
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the nation’s leading integrated academic health systems and one of the largest in the New York metropolitan area. Its comprehensive system includes seven hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, over 600 research and clinical laboratories, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and the Mount Sinai Phillips School of Nursing. Together, the Health System comprises approximately 48,000 employees, more than 9,000 physicians, and 8,600 nurses.
As a leading learning health system, Mount Sinai combines clinical expertise with scientific discovery to improve patient care while training the next generation of health care and biomedical leaders. The Health System provides care across every stage of life, from prenatal care through geriatrics, while advancing personalized medicine through artificial intelligence, data science, and biomedical research.
Mount Sinai is consistently recognized among the nation’s leading academic health systems for patient care, research, and education. The Mount Sinai Hospital is ranked No. 1 in New York by Newsweek and No. 5 on the magazine’s World’s Best Hospitals list. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ranks No. 11 among U.S. medical schools and No. 1 among freestanding medical schools for National Institutes of Health funding, reflecting the strength of its scientific enterprise and leadership in biomedical research.
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