Dixon Kaufman MD PhD, FACS
Transplantation
Ray D. Owen Professor of Surgery; Director, UWHealth Transplant Center
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600 Highland Ave# UwMadison, WI 53792
Phone+1 608-265-6471
Fax+1 608-262-6280
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Education & Training
University of MinnesotaResidency, Surgery, 1983 - 1992- University of Minnesota Medical SchoolClass of 1983
Certifications & Licensure
WI State Medical License 2011 - 2025
MN State Medical License 1984 - 2022
IL State Medical License 1992 - 2017
American Board of Surgery Surgery
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- America's Top Doctors Castle Connolly, 2014-2024
- Fellow (FACS) American College of Surgeons
Clinical Trials
- Belatacept Early Steroid Withdrawal Trial Start of enrollment: 2012 Sep 01
- Inducing Graft Tolerance in HLA Haplotype Matched Related and 3 Ag Matched Unrelated Living Donor Kidney Transplantation Start of enrollment: 2017 Feb 14
Roles: Contact
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- The Challenge of Minding the Glomerular Filtration Rate Gap Between Pancreas Transplant Alone and Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplantation: Stuck in the Middle.Sandesh Parajuli, Didier Mandelbrot, Robert J Stratta, Raja Kandaswamy, Ronald F Parsons
Transplantation. 2025-03-25 - Simultaneous en bloc kidney and pancreas transplantation from pediatric donors: Selection, surgical strategy, management, and outcomes.Riccardo Tamburrini, Ching-Yao Yang, Jennifer L Philip, Nikole A Neidlinger, Dixon B Kaufman
American Journal of Transplantation. 2025-03-01 - Predicted Indirectly Recognizable T-cell Epitope (PIRCHE) Load Correlates With Rejection Events After Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplantation.Sandesh Parajuli, Matthias Niemann, Bethany L Dale, Luis Hidalgo, Gaurav Gupta
Transplantation Direct. 2025-03-01
Press Mentions
UW Health Requires COVID-19 Vaccination for Transplant PatientsNovember 11th, 2021- Medeor Therapeutics to Provide Interim Results of Phase 3 Mercury Study of MDR-101 Cell Therapy in Living Donor Kidney Transplants During Rapid Fire Oral Presentation at ATC Virtual CongressMay 20th, 2021
- American Girl Founder Pleasant Rowland Gives $10M for New UW Hospital Transplant ClinicFebruary 10th, 2021
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Professional Memberships
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- American Society of Transplant SurgeonsPresident, 2018-19
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