Dr. John Julian Fung, MD

John J. Fung, MD, PhD, is the Chairman of the Department of General Surgery at Cleveland Clinic and was the former Chief of the Division of Transplant Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. With more than 25 years involvement in kidney, liver, pancreas, islet, and intestinal transplantation, he is also an accomplished immunologist. Dr. Fung received his BA from the Johns Hopkins University in 1975, and a PhD in Immunology in 1980 and MD in 1982 from the University of Chicago. He completed his surgical residency at the University of Rochester, and a transplant surgery fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh, under the guidance of Dr. Thomas Starzl. Between 1987 and 1988, he served as Director of Histocompatibility Testing at the University of Rochester. In 1989, he joined the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh, and he held the tenured position as the inaugural Thomas E. Starzl Professor in Surgery. He is currently Professor of Surgery at the Lerner College of Medicine at