Barry D. Kahan MD, PhD

Barry D. Kahan is Emeritus Professor and Director Emeritus of the Division of Immunology and Organ Transplantation at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, where he was Chief of the Organ Transplant Services at The Hermann Hospital for more than 30 years. He received both his PhD (physiology) and MD degrees from the University of Chicago and completed his internship and surgical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Before his academic appointment at the University of Texas, he held Assistant and Associate Professor posts in Physiology and Surgery at the Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago. Dr. Kahan has served on numerous scientific editorial boards, including Transplantation, Clinical Transplantation, Transplantation Proceedings, and Clinical Nephrology. He has been a consultant for the FDA Advisory Committees on Anesthesia and Life Saving Drugs, and he served two terms on the Department of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Transplantation. Dr. Kahan is a Past President of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons