Kishore R. Iyer MSc, FRCS(Eng), FACS

Kishore R. Iyer is director of adult and pediatric intestinal rehabilitation & transplantation at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, and Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics, and Global Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is also the Transplant Surgery Fellowship Program Director in the Recanati Miller Transplant Institute at Mount Sinai.
Kishore trained in general surgery and pediatric surgery in the UK, where he worked with Dr Adrian Bianchi and developed his early interest in short bowel syndrome and the use of intestinal lengthening procedures. He pursued research at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children and the Institute of Child Health in London, winning the 1996 British Association of Pediatric Surgeons Prize for his pioneering work identifying phytosterols in soy-based lipid emulsions as a potential cause for parenteral nutrition-associated liver disease in patients with intestinal failure.

Kishore was trained in transplant surgery at Chicago and Omaha, working as a liver and intestinal transplant surgeon at Omaha for almost 4 years. He was responsible for establishing and directing the intestinal rehabilitation program, the first of its kind nationally, in Omaha, before moving to Chicago to establish and direct the intestinal transplantation and rehabilitation program at Northwestern University/Children’s Memorial Hospital. Kishore is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (FRCS) and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS). Kishore recently completed a Master of Science (MSc) in Evaluation of Health Interventions and Outcomes in the Department of Health Policy at the London School of Economics in the UK. Kishore has served on several committees of UNOS (United network for Organ Sharing) and is also a past member of the Board of Trustees of the Oley Foundation, a large support group and information resource for patients with intestinal failure.