Cleveland Clinic Florida’s Transplant Center, based in Weston, expanded the abdominal transplant team in 2022 with the appointment of Hannah Kerr, M.D., as Surgical Director of the Kidney Transplant Program. She will also serve as the Program Director for the new ASTS Kidney Transplant Fellowship, which will welcome its first surgical fellow in 2024. Dr. Kerr served as a member of Cleveland Clinic’s transplant team at the Glickman Urological & Kidney Institute’s Center for Renal and Pancreas Transplantation in Ohio before joining the Florida team.

Fellowship-trained in kidney and pancreas transplantation, Dr. Kerr was Surgical Director of Kidney and Pancreas Transplant at Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque, NM, where she established the pancreas transplant program. She made medical history by performing the state’s first-ever kidney/pancreas transplant and was instrumental in increasing DCD organ procurement and kidney utilization.

David J. Reich, M.D., FACS, joined Cleveland Clinic Florida’s Transplant Center as Surgical Director of the Liver Transplant Program and Chief of the Innovative Technology and Therapeutics Program. He previously headed the Division of Multiorgan Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia.

An internationally recognized leader in organ transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery, Dr. Reich is a pioneer in the modern use of DCD organ transplantation and has shepherded widespread, international adoption of DCD. More recently, his research has focused on dynamic organ preservation and reconditioning, using machines to pump hypothermic or normothermic oxygenated perfusion fluid with nutrients through DCD and other donor organs to improve them before transplantation.