Suzanne T. Ildstad MD

Suzanne T. Ildstad, M.D. is the Director of the Institute for Cellular Therapeutics, the Jewish Hospital Distinguished Professor of Transplantation, and Professor of Surgery at the University of Louisville. Dr. Ildstad received her medical degree from the Mayo Medical School followed by a residency in general surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital. After completing a medical staff fellowship in transplantation immunology at the National Institutes of Health, where she, with Dr. David Sachs, established the model for mixed hematopoietic chimerism, and a pediatric surgery-transplant surgery fellowship in Cincinnati,
Dr. Ildstad joined the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh in 1988 in Transplantation Surgery. In 1996, Dr. Ildstad was recruited to Allegheny University of the Health Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she first established the Institute for Cellular Therapeutics (ICT). ICT is a multidisciplinary translational research program focused on the development of novel cell-based therapies for the treatment of diseases.