Ernesto Molmenti, MD

Ernesto P. Molmenti, M.D., PH.D. M.B.A. has 25 years of experience in performing successful transplant surgeries and is dedicated to improving patient outcomes and quality of life. Most recently Molmenti served as System Chief, Surgical Innovation; Vice Chairman, Department of Surgery; Director, Kidney Transplantation; and Professor, Departments of Surgery, Medicine, and Pediatrics at Northwell Health and the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. There he established the adult (2007) and pediatric (2016) kidney transplant programs, founded the multi-disciplinary Division of Surgical Innovation across 24 hospitals, and was involved in the development of a new medical school and its merger with an existing health care system. After completing an adult and pediatric abdominal transplant fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh, he has led multi-organ transplant efforts at Baylor University Medical Center/Children’s Medical Center of Dallas; The University of Texas Southwestern; The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; and The University of Arizona College of Medicine. Molmenti has authored 500 peer-reviewed manuscripts/chapters and written 6 textbooks translated into multiple languages (the most recent one being Molmenti’s Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, 2nd. Edition, McGraw Hill Access Surgery). His research interests include interventions to eliminate disparities in transplantation and increase organ donor registration. At the national level, through his membership in the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network /United Network for Organ Sharing OPTN/UNOS National Kidney Transplantation Committee, he contributed to the mandated re-design of the kidney allocation system in the US. At the international level, he published in The Lancet a new approach to directed organ donation and incompatible kidney chains, and in The Lancet Regional Health-Americas, a call for equity addressing homelessness, organ donation, and transplantation. He is also a named inventor in multiple patents and has won numerous teaching and research awards.