James V. Guarrera MD, FACS

Dr. James V. Guarrera, MD, FACS, is an Executive Director, Vice Chair, Professor at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals. He graduated from Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He completed his Residency in Surgery and Research Fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center in 2004, which was followed by fellowship training in Multi-Organ Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery also at Columbia.

Dr. Guarrera is certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. Before coming to Rutgers, NJMS, Dr. Guarrera held key leadership positions as Surgical Director of Adult Liver Transplantation and Program Director of the Abdominal Transplant and Hepatobiliary Fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center. He is a prolific academic researcher and an extensive contributor to the medical literature with over 100 scientific papers, reviews, and book chapters, and is on the editorial board of the journal Liver Transplantation. Dr. Guarrera is acknowledged as an international expert and pioneer in vivo machine Preservation of donor organs.