Elizabeth A. Pomfret MD, PhD, FACS

Elizabeth A. Pomfret, MD, Ph.D. is the Chair of the Department of Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Diseases at the Lahey Clinic Medical Center in Burlington, Massachusetts, and is Professor of Surgery at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. Dr. Pomfret is an established multi-organ transplant surgeon with additional surgical training in Live Donor Liver Transplantation.

She is currently the President of the International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS). She has served as an American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) Councilor from 2009-2012. Dr. Pomfret is the former Chair of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) Liver and Intestine Transplantation Committee, has served on the UNOS Membership and Professional Standards Committee (MPSC), and currently serves on the UNOS Board of Directors and the UNOS Corporate Affairs Committee. Dr. Pomfret is an active researcher with a record of peer-reviewed publications and has lectured worldwide on current issues in the field.