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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Additional Information
In the News
New therapy from UI Health offers FDA-approved treatment option for brittle Type 1 diabetes
November 25, 2024
UI Health performs first-ever robotic kidney transplant for patient with polycystic kidney disease
October 1, 2020
College of Medicine opens $8.8 million Surgical Innovation & Training Laboratory
September 16, 2020