Specialty
Clinical Focus
Education
MD, Universidad De Buenos Aires
Fellowship, Transplant Surgery
Westchester Medical CenterFellowship, Transplant Surgery
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Biography
Dr. Juan Rocca completed his medical
degree with honors at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina. He received his surgical training at the
British Hospital of Buenos Aires/University of Buenos Aires and became board
certified in General Surgery and Laparoscopic Surgery.
He came to the US, in 2005, to complete a
Research and Clinical Fellowship in Transplant Surgery at Westchester Medical
Center in New York, achieving certification by the American Society of Transplant
Surgeons. He subsiquently spent time at
Northwestern University in Chicago, where he developed skills in cutting-edge
laparoscopic techniques for liver surgery and kidney donation, in addition to
pancreas transplantation and pediatric transplantation.
As a transplant surgeon at the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute Dr. Rocca performs transplant procedures of the liver, kidney, and pancreas in both the adult and pediatric populations, as well as laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy and other non-transplant procedures associated with liver and kidney diseases.
Dr. Rocca is the Surgical Director of the Mount Sinai Living Donor Kidney Program, an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, and the Associate Director of the Abdominal Transplant Surgery Fellowship Training Program at the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute.
Dr. Rocca's current research activities include: deceased donor selection and clinical outcomes in liver transplantation; live kidney donor functional magnetic resonance imaging; live kidney donor outcomes; and the development of minimally invasive kidney transplantation using sutureless vascular anastomoses.
Industry Relationships
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Dr. Rocca did not report having any of the following types of financial relationships with industry during 2011 and/or 2012: consulting, scientific advisory board, industry-sponsored lectures, service on Board of Directors, participation on industry-sponsored committees, equity ownership valued at greater than 5% of a publicly traded company or any value in a privately held company. Please note that this information may differ from information posted on corporate sites due to timing or classification differences.
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