Biography - Eduardo de Santibañes, MD, PhD, FACS
Eduardo de Santibañes, MD, PhD, FACS
Eduardo de Santibañes graduated from the University of La Plata in Buenos Aires, Argentina, receiving the gold medal, the highest recognition awarded by the University for Outstanding Performance, his overall grade average being 9.27. He completed his surgical residency at the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires and later became chief of residents there.
He completed a research fellowship at the University Health Center of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (where Dr. Thomas Starzl was the chairman) prior to beginning his career as a surgeon specialized in transplantation and hepatobiliary cancer.
In 1988 he was recognized as one of “Ten Outstanding Young People” by the Junior Chamber of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Together with his team, he performed the first adult liver transplantation in Argentina in January 1988 and the first liver living related donor transplantation in 1991.
Eduardo de Santibañes directed the laboratory of experimental surgery at the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires between 1989 and 1990. He and his team still continue their work there.
He was president of the Argentinean Transplantation Society between 1991 and 2000.
He created a fellowship in HPB and Liver Transplantation in 1992. Since then, he has been training surgeons from Argentina and other parts of the world.
In 2001 he founded the Argentinean Chapter of the Argentinean IHPBA (CA – IHPBA) together with other HPB surgeons.
He was President of the IHPBA Argentinean Chapter (2002- 2003)
He is Secretary-General of the Argentinean Academy of Surgery (2004 – 2008).
He is President–Elect of the 2008 Argentinean Congress of Surgery and Chairman of the IHPBA 2010 World Congress.
He has been the Chairman of the HPB and Liver Transplantation Unit at the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires since 1987. His unit has performed more than 700 transplants and over 1500 hepatic resections. The unit is the most active in Latin America, performing more than 1300 procedures per year.
He is an active clinical researcher and has contributed to the literature with his numerous papers and book chapters. He has given more than 500 national and international presentations and lectures. He is on the Editorial Board of many leading journals (including HPB Journal).
He became Full Professor and Chairman at the University of Buenos Aires in 2005.
He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and active member of other professional organizations.
Dr Eduardo de Santibañes became an Honorary Fellow of the American Surgical Association in April, 2007.
He is married and has seven children; the youngest are triplets, born in March, 2007.