ENRICO BENEDETTI, MD, FACS

PROFESSOR AND HEAD, DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY

WARREN H. COLE CHAIR IN SURGERY

General Profile

Specialty:

Transplant

Appointments:

Attending Surgeon at University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System

Clinical Interests:

Abdominal transplantation (liver, kidney and pancreas), living donor liver transplantation, hepatobiliary surgery, small bowel transplantation

Languages Spoken:

English, Italian

Education

Medical Education:

University of Florence Medical School

Residency:

General Surgery Residency University of Florence, University of Illinois at Chicago

Second Residency:

General Surgery Residency University of Illinois at Chicago

Fellowship:

Abdominal Organ Transplant Fellowship, University of Minnesota at Minneapolis

Certifications:

American Board of Surgery, Italian Board of General Surgery, Italian Medical License

Publications, Awards, & Memberships

Awards:

“Best Intern of the Year” Award at University of Illinois at Chicago – 1990, “Jerry and Thelmo Stergios award for excellence in basic research” at University of Illinois at Chicago- 1997

Society Memberships:

Societe Internationale De Chirurgie, American Society of Transplant Physicians, National Kidney Foundation -Illinois Section, American Society of Transplant Surgeons, The International Pancreas and Islet Transplant Association, The Transplantation Society, The Warren H. Cole Society, Italian Medical Association (Ordene Dei Medici)

Publications:

Tzvetanov I, D’Amico G, Walczak D, Jeon H, Garcia-Roca R, Oberholzer J, Benedetti E. High Rate of Unemployment After Kidney Transplantation: Analysis of the United Network for Organ Sharing Database. Transplant Proc. June 2014: 46(5);1290-4.

Choudhury N, Khan AB, Tzvetanov I, Garcia-Roca R, Oberholzer J, Benedetti E, Jeon H. Multiple Aspergillus Brain Abscesses After Liver Transplantation. Transplantation June 2014; 97(12):e72-3.

Qui M, Wang Y, Formo K, Marchese E, Wang S, McGarrigle JJ, Bochenek MA, Kinzer K, Vaca P, Davis M, Ahn SJ, Chang K, Bartholomew A, Benedetti E, Oberholzer J. Implementation of a Simplified Method of Islet Isolation for Allogeneic Islet Transplantation in Cynomolgus Monkeys. Pancreas Mar 2014; 43(2):226-35.

Khan A, Park P, Oberholzer J, Tzvetanov I, Garcia-Roca R, Gaba RC, Benedetti E, Jeon H. Concurrent Hepatic Artery And Portal Vein Thrombosis After Orthotopic Liver Transplantation With Preserved Allografts. Case Rep Transplant. Apr 2014

Qi M, Kinzer K, Danielson KK, Martellotto J, Barbaro B, Wang Y, Bui JT, Gaba RC, Knuttinen G, Garcia-Roca R, Tzvetanov I, Heitman A, David M, McGarrigle JJ, Benedetti E, Oberholzer J. Five-year Follow-up of Patients with Type I Diabetes Transplanted with Allogeneic Islets: The UIC Experience. Acta Diabetol. Oct 2014; 51(5):833-43.

Tzvetanov I, West-Thielke P, D’Amico G, Johnsen M, Ladik A, Hachaj G, Grazman M, Heller RU, Fernhall B, Daviglus ML, Solaro RJ, Oberholzer J, Gallon L, Benedetti E. A novel and personalized rehabilitation program for obese kidney transplant recipients. Transplantation Proceedings. December 2014; 46(10):3431-7

Monson RS, Kemerely P, Walczak D, Benedetti E, Oberholzer J, Danielson KK. Disparities in Completion Rates of the Medical Prerenal Transplant Evaluation by Race or Ethnicity and Gender. Transplantation. January 2015; 99(1):235-42.

Ayloo SM, D’Amico G, West-Thielke P, Bejarano-Pineda L, Tzvetanov I, Giulianotti PC, Benedetti E, Oberholzer J. Combined Robot-Assisted Kidney Transplantation and Sleeve Gastrectomy in a Morbidly Obese Recipient. Transplantation. February 2015.

Monson RS, Kemerley P, Walczak D, Benedetti E, Oberholzer J, Danielson KK. Disparities in Completion Rates of the Medical Prerenal Transplant Evaluation by Race or Ethnicity and Gender. Transplantation. February 2015; 99(1):236-42.

Tzvetanov I, D’Amico G, Benedetti E. Robotic-assisted Kidney Transplantation: Our Experience and Literature Review. Current Transplantation Reports. March 2015; 2:122-126.

Khan A, Tzvetanov I, Jeon H, Borhani M, Benedetti E, Oberholzer J. Renofemoral Shunt for Protection of Abdominal Allografts During Emergency Abdominal Aortic Surgery. Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases. May 2015; 1:113-115.