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Ahmed Nassar

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In 2025, I am answering the call to... achieve 60,000 successful deceased donor transplants annually in the US.
Job Title: Liver & Kidney Transplant Surgeon
Organization: Henry Ford Transplant Institute
Age: 38
Years in Donation and Transplantation: 13
What makes your career in organ donation and transplantation special? My career in organ donation has been driven by a deep commitment to advancing medical science and saving lives. I was involved in performing the first liver transplant in the U.S. using both Normothermic Machine Perfusion (NMP) and Normothermic Regional Perfusion (NRP). During my research years at the Cleveland Clinic, I secured an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) from the FDA for an organ perfusion device and used it to transplant the first liver in the U.S. with NMP. While at Emory, I participated in and published the first U.S. case series on NRP in 2020. I’m also the co-founder of PerfusionomiX, an NRP service that has helped Gift of Life Michigan and Henry Ford Health achieve record-breaking liver transplant numbers. Additionally, I co-founded the Egyptian Network of Organ Sharing (ENOS) to initiate and promote deceased organ donation in Egypt.

Biography

Dr Ahmed Nassar is a transplant and hepatobiliary surgeon with the Transplant Institute at Henry Ford Health and the Children’s Hospital of Michigan. Dr. Nassar completed his Surgical Residency at the Cleveland Clinic, he then moved to Emory University for his transplant surgery fellowship and joined the faculty afterwards as an Assistant Professor of Surgery.

Dr Nassar is specifically interested in organ perfusion and preservation, in which he did a 2-year research fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic starting with an animal model that was translated to a clinical trial afterwards with several publications in normothermic machine and regional perfusion.

Dr Nassar is currently the Director of Pediatric Liver & Kidney Transplantation at Children’s Hospital of Michigan. Dr Nassar is also currently leading multiple studies in organ perfusion and preservation. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Michigan State University. He is also a member of the ASTS (American Society of Transplant Surgeons) Standards and Quality Committee.