Enrico Benedetti

Professor and Head of Surgery

Biography

Dr. Enrico Benedetti (Photo: Jenny Fontaine/University of Illinois Chicago)

Born and raised in Italy, Dr. Enrico Benedetti is a prominent leader in solid-organ transplantation and the use of robotic-assisted techniques in transplantation.

He has to his credit many successful surgical firsts, including the first robotic donor nephrectomy for a living-donor kidney transplant, the first combined living-donor liver and bowel transplant from an adult to an infant, the first robotic combined kidney and pancreas procurement for a living-donor transplant and the largest series of living-donor intestinal transplants in the world.

Languages: Italian, Spanish and English.

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