Massachusetts General Hospital

Biography

James Markmann MD, PhD, FACS completed Medical School and Graduate School training in immunology at the University of Pennsylvania. Following a residency in General Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and a Fellowship in Liver, Kidney, and Pancreas Transplant Surgery at the University of California Los Angeles, he returned to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania to practice Transplant surgery and to direct the Pancreas Transplant Program. In 2007 he joined the Massachusetts General Hospital faculty and in 2008 became the Chief of the Division of Transplant Surgery.

Dr. Markmann has diverse clinical expertise, having performed hundreds of liver and kidney transplants, laparoscopic donor nephrectomies, and vascular access procedures. Dr. Markmann is a recognized leader in the field of pancreatic islet transplantation and recently developed the only active clinical islet transplant program in New England

Research

Dr. Markmann's research interests include 1) developing ways to perform transplants without immunosuppression, 2) new approaches to alleviate the organ shortage, and 3) utilizing pancreatic islets to treat patients with Type I diabetes. Dr. Markmann has published over 200 scientific papers and his research work is funded by the NIH and JDRF.

MGH Transplant Center hosts inaugural golf tournament

MGH Hotline 08.27.10 Nearly 100 golfers -- including MGH President Peter L. Slavin, MD; MGPO Chairman and CEO David F. Torchiana, MD; and Chief of the MGH Division of Transplantation James F. Markmann, MD, PhD -- took to the links at the Weston Golf Club July 12 for the inaugural MGH Transplant Center Golf Classic.

Domino liver transplant patients meet

William Gledhill and Anthony Mele, patients in the Transplant Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, met after taking part in an extremely rare procedure known as a "domino" liver transplant.

Kidney transplant patients meet their matches

John Marzelli and Esperanza Yoblonsky were suffering from IgA nephropathy and both needed a new kidney; they found the answer in the Mass General Transplant Center’s internal exchange program.

An MGH transplant miracle

This marks the second time in the past 20 years that the MGH has performed a heart and liver transplant, also the second operation of its kind ever done in New England.