Dr. Jeffrey Haskell Fair, MD

Jeffrey Fair, M.D., professor and chief of the division of transplantation surgery, joined the University of Florida College of Medicine in 2012. Prior to joining UF, he served as director of translational research at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's department of surgery and as a professor of surgery at the University of California at Los Angeles' David Geffen School of Medicine. Dr. Fair completed a fellowship in kidney and liver transplantation at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and a fellowship in pancreas transplantation at the University of Minnesota Hospital. He earned his medical degree and completed his general surgery training at East Carolina School of Medicine. Before working at UCLA and Cedars-Sinai, he was a faculty member in the department of surgery at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill. During that time, Dr. Fair rose to the rank of professor and served as the chief of transplantation. Fair served in the U.S. Army Reserve Medical Corps from …1990 to 2004. An accomplished transplant surgeon and an innovator in liver stem cell therapies, Dr. Fair is using stem cells to restore function to damaged or diseased livers through gene therapy, and to grow new, healthy liver cells in patients whose livers do not function properly. Advances in this research may one day help some patients avoid liver transplants. Dr. Fair is a member of the American Society of Transplantation, International Society for Stem Cell Research, Southern Surgical Association and the International Pediatric Transplantation Association, as well as a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.