DavidJ.ReichMDFACS

Summary

• David J. Reich, MD, FACS, directs the Tower Health Transplant Institute, is system chief of Multiorgan Transplant and HPB Surgery at Tower Health, and is Professor of Surgery at Drexel University College of Medicine. Internationally renowned, he specializes in liver and kidney transplant and complex liver surgery and tumor treatments.
  
  Dr. Reich is a recognized clinician, administrator, educator and scientist. He has published extensively and lectured internationally, including on pioneering organ donation after cardiac death and machine perfusion technologies for organ preservation. He is an authority on healthcare governance and practice, spanning QI, healthcare economics, strategic and leadership development, legislative/regulatory advocacy and medical education/training.
  
  Dr. Reich serves nationally. He was treasurer and chaired the Finance Committee of the United Network for Organ Sharing (2017-2019); UNOS manages U.S. organ transplant under federal contract. He was a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee (2016-2019), chaired the IT Committee, was Region 2 councilor and served on the Corporate Affairs, Membership and Professional Standards, and Liver Transplant Committees. He chairs the Quality and Pay Reform MACRA Task Force of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. He chaired the ASTS Legislative and Standards Committees and served on the Fellowship Training and Workforce Committees. He chaired the Surgery Committee of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and served on the Steering, Education and Scientific Program Committees.
  
  Dr. Reich earned a BA from Columbia University and MD from McGill University. He performed his surgical residency at Beth Israel Medical Center and transplant surgery fellowship at Mount Sinai Recanati Miller Transplant Institute. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery, is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and is a Castle Connolly / Philly Magazine Top Doc (2010-2020).