Sander S. Florman
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Sander S. Florman, M.D., is an American
transplant
surgeon
and Director of the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute at The Mount Sinai Medical Center
in New York City
. He is a member of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, the American Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association
, the American Society of Transplantation
and the American College of Surgeons
.
Florman's work as the Director of the Transplant Institute at Tulane University
in New Orleans earned him recognition as one of New Orleans Magazines "People to Watch". He was twice named "Health Care Hero" by New Orleans CityBusiness
(in 2007 and 2009) and was chosen as one of Gambit Weekly
's "40 Under 40" in their "Best of New Orleans" class of 2004. He was recognized by Louisiana Life magazine as one of Louisiana's "Top Doctors" and “Best Doctors” in 2007-2009. Various awards include the Kremetz Resident Research Award, the ASTS Vanguard Prize and Tulane University’s Promise in Research Award.
Florman is the author of nine book chapters and more than 75 publications.
with a degree in philosophy
. He received his medical degree from the University of Louisville
School of Medicine in 1994. He did general surgery training at the Tulane University School of Medicine
in New Orleans, also spending a year in the Liver Transplant Lab at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, where he investigated the effects of hypernatremia
in brain death
and ischemia
/reperfusion injury
in liver transplantation
. He was recognized as Resident of the Year at Charity Hospital in 1998 and was named Administrative Chief Resident in 1999.
Florman completed a fellowship in multi-organ transplant
ation and hepatobiliary
surgery at Mount Sinai, after which he returned to Tulane University as the Director of Transplantation. He was then named the Director of the Abdominal Transplant Institute and the Director of Transplantation at Children's Hospital of New Orleans
.
He was named Director of Mount Sinai's Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute in October 2009.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
transplant
Organ transplant
Organ transplantation is the moving of an organ from one body to another or from a donor site on the patient's own body, for the purpose of replacing the recipient's damaged or absent organ. The emerging field of regenerative medicine is allowing scientists and engineers to create organs to be...
surgeon
Surgeon
In medicine, a surgeon is a specialist in surgery. Surgery is a broad category of invasive medical treatment that involves the cutting of a body, whether human or animal, for a specific reason such as the removal of diseased tissue or to repair a tear or breakage...
and Director of the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute at The Mount Sinai Medical Center
Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is one of the oldest and largest teaching hospitals in the United States. In 2011-2012, Mount Sinai Hospital was ranked as one of America's best hospitals by U.S...
in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. He is a member of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, the American Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association
International Hepato-Pancreato-Bilary Association
International Hepato-Pancreato-Bilary Association is a non-profit organization established in 1994 to focus on medical conditions and procedures related to the liver, pancreas and biliary tract.- History :...
, the American Society of Transplantation
American Society of Transplantation
The American Society of Transplantation is an international organization of over 2,700 transplant professionals dedicated to advancing the field of transplantation through the promotion of research, education, advocacy, and organ donation to improve patient care.The AST was founded in 1982 with...
and the American College of Surgeons
American College of Surgeons
The American College of Surgeons is an educational association of surgeons created in 1913 to improve the quality of care for the surgical patient by setting high standards for surgical education and practice.-Membership:...
.
Florman's work as the Director of the Transplant Institute at Tulane University
Tulane University
Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States...
in New Orleans earned him recognition as one of New Orleans Magazines "People to Watch". He was twice named "Health Care Hero" by New Orleans CityBusiness
New Orleans CityBusiness
New Orleans CityBusiness is a weekly business newspaper headquartered in Metairie, Louisiana, USA.Launched in 1980, CityBusiness covers the metropolitan New Orleans area , including the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. The paper also has a Web site to report breaking news...
(in 2007 and 2009) and was chosen as one of Gambit Weekly
Gambit Weekly
Gambit is a New Orleans, Louisiana-based free alternative weekly newspaper that was established in 1981 as Gambit Weekly. Gambit features reporting about local politics, news, food and drink, arts, music, film, events, environmental issues and other topics, as well as listings...
's "40 Under 40" in their "Best of New Orleans" class of 2004. He was recognized by Louisiana Life magazine as one of Louisiana's "Top Doctors" and “Best Doctors” in 2007-2009. Various awards include the Kremetz Resident Research Award, the ASTS Vanguard Prize and Tulane University’s Promise in Research Award.
Florman is the author of nine book chapters and more than 75 publications.
Biography
Florman graduated cum laude with honors from Brandeis UniversityBrandeis University
Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...
with a degree in philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
. He received his medical degree from the University of Louisville
University of Louisville
The University of Louisville is a public university in Louisville, Kentucky. When founded in 1798, it was the first city-owned public university in the United States and one of the first universities chartered west of the Allegheny Mountains. The university is mandated by the Kentucky General...
School of Medicine in 1994. He did general surgery training at the Tulane University School of Medicine
Tulane University School of Medicine
The Tulane University School of Medicine is located in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA and is a part of Tulane University. The school is located in the Medical District of the New Orleans Central Business District.-History:...
in New Orleans, also spending a year in the Liver Transplant Lab at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, where he investigated the effects of hypernatremia
Hypernatremia
Hypernatremia or hypernatraemia is an electrolyte disturbance that is defined by an elevated sodium level in the blood. Hypernatremia is generally not caused by an excess of sodium, but rather by a relative deficit of free water in the body...
in brain death
Brain death
Brain death is the irreversible end of all brain activity due to total necrosis of the cerebral neurons following loss of brain oxygenation. It should not be confused with a persistent vegetative state...
and ischemia
Ischemia
In medicine, ischemia is a restriction in blood supply, generally due to factors in the blood vessels, with resultant damage or dysfunction of tissue. It may also be spelled ischaemia or ischæmia...
/reperfusion injury
Reperfusion injury
Reperfusion injury is the tissue damage caused when blood supply returns to the tissue after a period of ischemia or lack of oxygen. The absence of oxygen and nutrients from blood during the ischemic period creates a condition in which the restoration of circulation results in inflammation and...
in liver transplantation
Liver transplantation
Liver transplantation or hepatic transplantation is the replacement of a diseased liver with a healthy liver allograft. The most commonly used technique is orthotopic transplantation, in which the native liver is removed and replaced by the donor organ in the same anatomic location as the original...
. He was recognized as Resident of the Year at Charity Hospital in 1998 and was named Administrative Chief Resident in 1999.
Florman completed a fellowship in multi-organ transplant
Organ transplant
Organ transplantation is the moving of an organ from one body to another or from a donor site on the patient's own body, for the purpose of replacing the recipient's damaged or absent organ. The emerging field of regenerative medicine is allowing scientists and engineers to create organs to be...
ation and hepatobiliary
Hepatobiliary system
This refers to the liver, gall bladder and bile ducts, and how they work together to make bile. Bile consists of water, electrolytes, bile acids, cholesterol, phospholipids and conjugated bilirubin. Some components are synthesised by liver cells, the rest are extracted from the blood by the...
surgery at Mount Sinai, after which he returned to Tulane University as the Director of Transplantation. He was then named the Director of the Abdominal Transplant Institute and the Director of Transplantation at Children's Hospital of New Orleans
Children's Hospital of New Orleans
Children's Hospital of New Orleans is a non-profit children's hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana.Children's Hospital offers a wide range of inpatient and outpatient pediatric care, including a Pediatric intensive care unit, Neonatal intensive care unit, and a parenting education center. As of...
.
He was named Director of Mount Sinai's Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute in October 2009.
Awards
- First Prize, New Orleans Surgical Research, Competition 1998
- Owl Club Most Valuable Intern Award and Owl Club Resident Teaching Award, 1995, 1998, 2000
- Charity Hospital Resident of the Year Award, 1998
- Krementz Resident Research Award, 1998
- Cerise Outstanding Surgery Resident Award, 2000
- Mims Gage Resident Teaching Award, 1998, 2000
- ASTA Vanguard Prize, 2005
- Tulane University Promise in Research Award, 2005
Publications
Partial list:- Florman SS, Podkameni D, Wang L, Gordon RE, Curtiss S, Boros P, Miller CM. Hyperosmolarity associated with diabetes insipidus alters hepatocyte structure and function but not survival after orthotopic liver transplantation in rats. Transplantation. 15 January 1998;65(1):36-41. PMID 9448141
- Florman SS, Nichols RL. Hepatitis C: the real danger to surgeons(1). Curr Surg. 1 September 2000;57(5):414-420. PMID 11064061
- Florman S, Shneider B. Living-related liver transplantation in inherited metabolic liver disease: feasibility and cautions. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2001 Oct;33(4):520-1. PMID 11794242
- Kim-Schluger L, Florman SS, Schiano TThomas D. SchianoThomas D. Schiano, M.D., is an American specialist in liver transplantation, intestinal transplantation and in the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic liver disease...
, O'Rourke M, Gagliardi R, Drooker M, Emre S, Fishbein TM, Sheiner PA, Schwartz ME, Miller CM. Quality of life after lobectomy for adult liver transplantation. Transplantation. 27 May 2002;73(10):1593-7. PMID 12042645
- Fishbein TM, Florman S, Gondolesi G, Schiano T, LeLeiko N, Tschernia A, Kaufman S. Intestinal transplantation before and after the introduction of sirolimus. Transplantation. 27 May 2002;73(10):1538-42. PMID 12042637
- Florman SS, Fishbein TM, Schiano T, Letizia A, Fennelly E, DeSancho M. Multivisceral transplantation for portal hypertension and diffuse mesenteric thrombosis caused by protein C deficiency. Transplantation. 15 August 2002;74(3):406-7. PMID 12177622
- Florman S, Benchimol C, Lieberman K, Burrows L, Bromberg JS. Fulminant recurrence of atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome during a calcineurin inhibitor-free immunosuppression regimen. Pediatr Transplant. 2002 Aug;6(4):352-5. PMID 12234280
- Goldman J, Florman S, Varotti G, Gondolesi GE, Gerning A, Fishbein T, Kim L, Schwartz ME. Noninvasive preoperative evaluation of biliary anatomy in right-lobe living donors with mangafodipir trisodium-enhanced MR cholangiography. Transplant Proc. 2003 Jun;35(4):1421-2. PMID 12826176
- Florman S, Schiano T, Kim L, Maman D, Levay A, Gondolesi G, Fishbein T, Emre S, Schwartz M, Miller C, Sheiner P. The incidence and significance of late acute cellular rejection (>1000 days) after liver transplantation. Clin Transplant. 2004 Apr;18(2):152-5. PMID 15016129
- Paramesh AS, Roayaie S, Doan Y, Schwartz ME, Emre S, Fishbein T, Florman S, Gondolesi GE, Krieger N, Ames S, Bromberg JS, Akalin E. Post-liver transplant acute renal failure: factors predicting development of end-stage renal disease. Clin Transplant. 2004 Feb;18(1):94-9. PMID 15108777
- Gondolesi GE, Varotti G, Florman SS, Muñoz L, Fishbein TM, Emre SH, Schwartz ME, Miller C. Biliary complications in 96 consecutive right lobe living donor transplant recipients. Transplantation. 27 June 2004;77(12):1842-8. PMID 15223901
- Miller C, Florman S, Kim-Schluger L, Lento P, De La Garza J, Wu J, Xie B, Zhang W, Bottone E, Zhang D, Schwartz M. Fulminant and fatal gas gangrene of the stomach in a healthy live liver donor. Liver Transpl. 2004 Oct;10(10):1315-9. PMID 15376309
- Lipson EJ, Fiel MI, Florman SS, Korenblat KM. Patient and graft outcomes following liver transplantation for sarcoidosis. Clin Transplant. 2005 Aug;19(4):487-91. PMID 16008593
- Florman S, Miller CM. Live donor liver transplantation. Liver Transpl. 2006 Apr;12(4):499-510. Review. PMID 16555328
- Paramesh A, Zhang R, Yau CL, Balamuthusamy S, Shenava R, Killackey M, Alper B, Simon E, Slakey D, Florman S. Long-term outcome of single pediatric donor kidney transplants between African-American and non-African-American adults. Clin Nephrol. 2009 Jul;72(1):55-61. PMID 19640388
- Cooper M, Deering KL, Slakey DP, Harshaw Q, Arcona S, McCann EL, Rasetto FA, Florman SS. Comparing outcomes associated with dose manipulations of enteric-coated mycophenolate sodium versus mycophenolate mofetil in renal transplant recipients. Transplantation. 27 August 2009;88(4):514-20. PMID 19696634
- Paramesh A, Zhang R, Florman S, Yau CL, McGee J, Al-Abbas H, Amatya A, Killackey M, Slakey D. Laparoscopic procurement of single versus multiple artery kidney allografts: is long-term graft survival affected? Transplantation. 27 November 2009;88(10):1203-7. PMID 19935374
- Subramanian A, Sulkowski M, Barin B, Stablein D, Curry M, Nissen N, Dove L, Roland M, Florman S, Blumberg E, Stosor V, Jayaweera DT, Huprikar S, Fung J, Pruett T, Stock P, Ragni M. MELD Score Is an Important Predictor of Pretransplantation Mortality in HIV-Infected Liver Transplant Candidates. Gastroenterology. 30 September 2009. PMID 19800334