Biography

Stuart M. Flechner MD, FACS Professor of Surgery Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio Dr. Flechner received a BA in zoology and his MD from the University of California at Los Angeles, USA. After completing a residency in Surgery and Urology at the Moffitt Hospital of the University of California, San Francisco, he did a fellowship in Transplantation and Renal Vascular Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He also completed a sabbatical at The Scripps Research Institute in California in the Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine. Dr. Flechner has held academic appointments in the Division of Organ Transplantation at the University of Texas Medical School, Houston and in the Division of Transplantation at Stanford University School of Medicine. Currently, he is Professor of Surgery and Director of Clinical Research in the Section of Renal Transplantation at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. His academic interests include the medical and surgical management of renal transplant recipients, transplant biology, and the development and application of new and innovative immunosuppressive agents. Dr. Flechner has authored more than 235 scientific articles, chapters and reviews and is the Associate Editor of Clinical Transplantation, and an ad hoc reviewer for 18 scientific journals in the fields of transplantation, surgery and urology. Current projects include the development of calcineurin-free immunosuppressive regimens and signature patterns of gene expression in transplanted kidneys in various stages of function.