Clinical Professor of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital

General Surgery

Francis Delmonico is an expert in the field of General Surgery. He went to George Washington University School of Medicine. George Washington University School of Medicine is ranked 67/0 in Research/PrimaryCare. He received 1 awards: "Fellow (FACS)". Francis Delmonico is a published doctor. He has 63 papers published. The most current publication "The End of Racial Disparities in Kidney Transplantation? Not So Fast!"

Publications

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• Socioeconomic status and ethnicity of deceased donor kidney recipients compared to their donors.
• Organ donation and transplantation in central america.
• The global diffusion of organ transplantation: trends, drivers and policy implications.
• Organ markets: problems beyond harms to vendors.
• A needed Convention against trafficking in human organs.
• Regional perspective: developing organ transplantation in sub-saharan Africa.
• The Role of Procurement Biopsies in Acceptance Decisions for Kidneys Retrieved for Transplant.
• Commendable developments in deceased organ donation and transplantation in iran.
• Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism: The Role of Global Professional Ethical Standards-The 2008 Declaration of Istanbul.
• Dynamic challenges inhibiting optimal adoption of kidney paired donation: findings of a consensus conference.
• The Alternative Iranian model of living renal transplantation.
• Diagnosis and Management of Tuberculosis in Transplant Donors: A Donor-Derived Infections Consensus Conference Report(†).
• Organ transplantation in China-the 21st century.
• Living donation: the global perspective.
• Investigating Geographic Variation in Mortality in the Context of Organ Donation.
• Debate on financial incentives is off the mark of national and international realities.
• KDIGO guideline for the care of kidney transplant recipients will be resource challenged.
• A colloquium on the congress "A gift for life. Considerations on organ donation".
• Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 15-2009. A 25-year-old man with coma after cardiac arrest.
• The international realities of live donor kidney transplantation.
• The implications of Istanbul Declaration on organ trafficking and transplant tourism.
• The hazards of transplant tourism.
• The development of a successful multiregional kidney paired donation program.
• Analysis of the wait list and deaths among candidates waiting for a kidney transplant.
• Should pediatric patients wait for HLA-DR-matched renal transplants?
• Long-term outcome of a cuffed expanded PTFE graft for hemodialysis vascular access.
• The prohibition of kidney sales and organ markets should remain.
• Regulated market for organs is unattainable.
• Organ donation and dual advocacy.
• Kidney transplantation as primary therapy for end-stage renal disease: a National Kidney Foundation/Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (NKF/KDOQITM) conference.
• When organ donors are still patients: is premortem use of heparin ethically acceptable?
• A report of the Lisbon Conference on the care of the kidney transplant recipient.
• Vancouver forum on the live lung, liver, pancreas, and intestine donor.
• Donation after cardiac death as a strategy to increase deceased donor liver availability.
• A report of the Vancouver Forum on the care of the live organ donor: lung, liver, pancreas, and intestine data and medical guidelines.
• The ethics statement of the Vancouver Forum on the live lung, liver, pancreas, and intestine donor.
• Increasing the opportunity of live kidney donation by matching for two- and three-way exchanges.
• Maximizing the success of transplantation with kidneys from older donors.
• Increasing the supply of kidneys for transplantation.
• Living-donor kidney transplantation: a review of the current practices for the live donor.
• Impact of the expanded criteria donor allocation system on the use of expanded criteria donor kidneys.
• Commentary: the WHO resolution on human organ and tissue transplantation.
• Donation after cardiac death and the science of organ donation.
• Summary report of a national conference: Evolving concepts in liver allocation in the MELD and PELD era. December 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.
• Exchanging kidneys--advances in living-donor transplantation.
• Cardiovascular risk profile after conversion from cyclosporine A to tacrolimus in stable renal transplant recipients.
• Is this live-organ donor your patient?
• A prospective, randomized, clinical trial of intraoperative versus postoperative Thymoglobulin in adult cadaveric renal transplant recipients.
• A prospective, randomized clinical trial of cyclosporine reduction in stable patients greater than 12 months after renal transplantation.
• Hormonal resuscitation yields more transplanted hearts, with improved early function.
• Aggressive pharmacologic donor management results in more transplanted organs.
• Induction of kidney allograft tolerance after transient lymphohematopoietic chimerism in patients with multiple myeloma and end-stage renal disease.
• Donor characteristics associated with reduced graft survival: an approach to expanding the pool of kidney donors.
• Living kidney donors in need of kidney transplants: a report from the organ procurement and transplantation network.
• The nondirected live-kidney donor: ethical considerations and practice guidelines: A National Conference Report.
• Ethical incentives--not payment--for organ donation.
• Financial incentives for cadaver organ donation: an ethical reappraisal.
• Acute humoral rejection in kidney transplantation: II. Morphology, immunopathology, and pathologic classification.
• Transplant tumor registry: donors with central nervous system tumors1.
• Why we should not pay for human organs.
• The End of Racial Disparities in Kidney Transplantation? Not So Fast!
• Improvement in kidney transplantation in the Balkans after the Istanbul Declaration: where do we stand today?

Schools

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• George Washington University School of Medicine And Health Sciences

• Med College Va Hospital

• Massachusetts General Hospital

Doctors Specialties

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• General Surgery

Accepted Insurances

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• Aetna HMO
• Choice Plus POS II
• Blue Card PPO
• BlueConnect HMO
• Blue with Managed Care Behavioral Health HMO
• Preferred Blue PPO
• Cigna HMO
• Cigna PPO
• Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
• Open Access Plus
• First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
• Choice Care PPO
• Medicare MCR
• MultiPlan PPO
• PHCS Network PPO
• Tufts PPO
• Choice Plus POS
• Navigate HMO
• Navigate POS
• Options PPO

Awards

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• Fellow (FACS)

Education

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• Virginia Commonwealth University Health System
• Massachusetts General Hospital
• George Washington University School of Medicine

Hospital

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• Massachusetts General Hospital

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