Dr. David Mulligan, an acclaimed abdominal organ transplant surgeon from the Mayo Clinic and a passionate leader in organ donation, was been appointed Chief of the Division of Transplantation and Immunology, director of the Yale-New Haven Transplantation Center (YNHTC), and Professor of Surgery at Yale School of Medicine from 2013 to 2022 and the Director of Transplant Innovation and Technology at Yale. After becoming Professor Emeritus at Yale, he has moved to Reno, NV to help architect the build of a kidney and liver program for Renown Health and also perform living donor liver transplants at University of Washington in Seattle with their existing incredible team.

Dr. Mulligan is also a liver transplant specialist with international acclaim for his work in living donor liver transplantation. He spent 15 years with the Mayo Clinic in Arizona and, as a result, brings a wealth of experience, including his involvement in the establishment of a solid organ transplant program. He worked with a team that is famous for steroid-sparing immunosuppression, protocol biopsies to study early inflammatory markers that lead to chronic kidney damage, and the use of donor kidneys with acute kidney injury for successful transplantation as well as successful use of machine perfusion. Collaboratively, Dr. Mulligan and his colleagues performed more than 3,500 solid organ transplants with outstanding clinical outcomes.

As a researcher, Dr. Mulligan has been a principle investigator in multiple trials, including studies on diabetes mellitus and hepatitis C virus, as well as donor and recipient outcomes in living donor transplantations, and organ allocation and distribution in the U.S. He has performed research on Normothermic Machine Perfusion at Yale and serves and medical monitor for hypothermic machine perfusion device research for ORS, Inc. He also serves on the scientific advisory board of XTherma, Inc which explores the use of subzero preservation of tissues and organs. He has published over 200 papers and 5 book chapters and presented nationally and internationally.

He is a devoted champion for organ donations on a national scale. He previously served as chair of the Liver and Transplant Committee for United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) and also councilor for the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, and is a member of the American Surgical Society. Currently, he served as the President of UNOS/OPTN and as At Large Member of the Governing Board for the AASLD. He is also past Chair of the Business Practice Services Committee for the ASTS and the Wellness Committee and he currently serves on the ASTS Foundation Board. He currently serves as the Senior Historian for the ASTS.

Dr. Mulligan received his medical degree from the University of Louisville, where he also completed his internship in general surgery and his residency in urologic surgery. He completed his residency in general surgery from Case Western Reserve University and his fellowship in multi-organ transplantation from Baylor University Medical Center.