Pierpaolo Di Cocco, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Director of Resident & Medical Student Program in Transplant Surgery

General Profile

Specialty: Transplant

Appointments: Attending Surgeon at University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System

Clinical Interests: Multi-Organ Abdominal Transplantation (liver, kidney and pancreas), Islet Cell Transplantation

Languages Spoken:

English, Italian

Education

Medical Education: University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila Italy

Residency: University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila Italy

Honorary Fellowship (Renal Transplantation): The Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel London-UK

PhD (Experimental Surgery): University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila Italy

Clinical Fellowship (Renal Transplantation): The Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel London-UK

Pancreas and Islet Cell Transplantation Fellowship: The University of Illinois at Chicago

ASTS Abdominal Organ Transplant Clinical Fellowship: The University of Illinois at Chicago

Publications, Awards, & Memberships

Publications:

Spaggiari M, Di Cocco P, Tulla K, Kaylan KB, Masrur MA, Hassan C, Alvarez JA, Benedetti E, Tzvetanov I. Simultaneous robotic kidney transplantation and bariatric surgery for morbidly obese patients with end-stage renal failure. Am J Transplant. 2020 Sep 25. doi: 10.1111/ajt.16322. PMID: 32976702
George AT, Di Cocco P, Benedetti E, Boulay BR, Carroll RE. Teduglutide Therapy in 2 Patients With Short-Bowel Syndrome and Familial Adenomatous Polyposis. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr. 2020 Aug 23. doi: 10.1002/jpen.2001. Online ahead of print. PMID: 32829492
Almario Alvarez JA, Okoye O, Tulla K,Spaggiari M, Di Cocco P, Benedetti E, Tzvetanov I. Tracheostomy Following Liver Transplantation. Transplant Proc. 2020 Mar 2. pii: S0041-1345(19)30900-5. doi: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2020.01.009. PMID: 32139274
SpaggiariM, Okoye O, Tulla K, Di Cocco P, Almario J, Benedetti E, Tzvetanov I. Geographic Disparities in Liver Allocation and Distribution in the United States: Where Are We Now? Transplant Proc. 2019 Dec;51(10):3205-3212. doi: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2019.07.018. Epub 2019 Nov 13. PMID: 31732201
SpaggiariM, Okoye O, Almario J, Tulla K, Di Cocco P, Benedetti E, Tzvetanov I. Simultaneous recipient external iliac endarterectomy and renal transplant – a propensity score matched analysis. Transpl Int. 2020 Mar;33(3):321-329. doi: 10.1111/tri.13559. Epub 2019 Dec 2. PMID: 31730258
Di Cocco P, Okoye O, Almario J, Benedetti E, Tzvetanov IG, Spaggiari M. Obesity in Kidney Transplantation. Transpl Int. 2019 Oct 31. doi: 10.1111/tri.13547. [Epub ahead of print] Review. PMID: 31667905
Tzvetanov IG, Spaggiari M, Tulla KA, Di Bella C, Okoye O,Di Cocco P, Jeon H, Oberholzer J, Cristoforo Giulianotti P, Benedetti E. Robotic Kidney Transplantation in the Obese Patient: 10-year experience from a Single Center. Am J Transplant. 2019 Sep 30. doi: 10.1111/ajt.15626. PMID: 31571369
Spaggiari M, Tulla KA, Okoye O, Di Bella C,Di Cocco P, Almario J, Ugwu-Dike P, Tzvetanov IG, Benedetti E. The utility of robotic assisted pancreas transplants – a single center retrospective study. Transpl Int. 2019 Nov;32(11):1173-1181. doi: 10.1111/tri.13477. PMID: 31250486
Corbett RW, Grechy L, Iori F, Crane JS, Herbert PE,Di Cocco P, Gedroyc W, Vincent PE, Caro CG, Duncan ND.Heterogeneity in the nonplanarity and arterial curvature of arteriovenous fistulas in vivo. J Vasc Surg. 2018 Dec;68(6S):152S-163S. doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2018.04.045. Epub 2018 Jul 29. PMID: 30064838
Jamshaid F, Froghi S,Di Cocco P, Dor FJ Novel non-invasive biomarkers diagnostic of acute rejection in renal transplant recipients: A systematic review. Int J Clin Pract. 2018 Jul 16:e13220. doi: 10.1111/ijcp.13220. [Epub ahead of print] Review. PMID: 30011113