April 22, 2004
Transplant specialist coming from Pittsburgh
Dr. Jorge D. Reyes, director of Pediatric Liver and Intestine Transplantation at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, will join the UW School of Medicine faculty in July. He will serve as professor and chief of the Division of Transplantation in the Department of Surgery.
Reyes will also become director of transplant surgery for the UW Medical Center Transplant Service Line and director of transplant surgery at Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle.
In Pittsburgh, Reyes is part of the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute and professor of surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He also holds the Jamie Lee Curtis Endowed Chair in Pediatric Transplantation at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and is co-director of the hospital’s Intestinal Care Center.
Reyes received his medical education in Brazil, and completed residencies in trauma surgery, general surgery, and surgical pathology in Brazil and the United States. He trained in transplantation at the University of Pittsburgh under Dr. Thomas Starzl, with whom he has worked for the last 15 years. He is responsible for developmental strides in pediatric multi- organ transplantation, split-liver and living-related transplantation, intestinal transplantation, and organ allocation policies.
Reyes succeeds Dr. James Perkins, professor of surgery, who helped develop the Division of Transplantion in the 1980s, and is now vice-chair for quality assurance in the Department of Surgery.
