About Me
As chair of the Department of Surgery and director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, I oversee a diverse team of medical and surgical specialists who provide a wide variety of surgery and transplantation services. I am well placed to talk about the skilled, compassionate experts at the Transplant Institute not only as its director—but also as someone who received a heart transplant here.
The structure of the Transplant Institute enables us to offer the most advanced patient care in a hospital that has earned top rankings for overall patient safety and quality from Vizient, Inc., formerly the University HealthSystem Consortium.
We are focused on bone marrow, heart, kidney, liver, lung, and facial transplantation. Our transplantation services have consistently led to outstanding patient outcomes. We are poised to introduce innovative programs I’ve helped to develop that will make us unique among New York’s transplant programs.
My primary goal is to use state-of-the-art innovations and technology to eliminate barriers that may be preventing people who need transplants from getting them. I was a member of the team that developed the laparoscopic procedure for live kidney donation. This minimally invasive procedure allows for a faster recovery after kidney donation and has become the standard throughout the world.
I also developed and performed the first “domino paired donation,” which is when two or more donors and recipients are paired in a kidney swap. This is often used when a donor and recipient have incompatible tissue or blood types. By bringing together multiple pairs of donors and recipients, we can ensure that all parties receive compatible organs.
I was the lead surgeon in the first 2-way, 3-way, 4-way, 5-way, 6-way, and 8-way domino paired donations and in the first 10-way open chain donation. In 2010, I was credited in The Guinness Book of World Records with performing the most kidney transplants in one day.
I am considered the world’s authority on desensitization—the process of readying patients to receive incompatible tissue or blood type transplants—altruistic donation, antibody-mediated rejection, and kidney-paired donation. I have performed more than 1,000 kidney transplants and am often referred patients who have the most difficult and complex situations. This includes people who have had multiple transplants, are difficult to match with donors, have been on dialysis for a long time, have clotting disorders, or are at a high risk for transplant rejection.
I trained in general surgery and multi-organ transplantation at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. My research focuses on stem cell therapies and gene- and cell-based therapies in transplantation. I co-lead a clinical trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health involving simultaneous donor bone marrow and live donor kidney transplantation. I also run multiple clinical trials for novel desensitization therapies.
I am honored to have received several awards recognizing my experience in patient care and research, including the American Society of Human Genetics’ Postdoctoral Basic Science Award, the Johns Hopkins Clinician Scientist Award, the Fujisawa Faculty Development Award from the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, the Champion of Hope Award from the National Kidney Foundation of Maryland, and the Terasaki Medical Innovation Award from the National Kidney Registry.
Conditions and Treatments
Treatments
- bloodless surgery
Credentials
Positions
- H. Leon Pachter, MD Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
- Chair, Department of Surgery
- Director, NYU Langone Transplant Institute
Board Certifications
- American Board of Surgery - General Surgery, 1996
Education and Training
- Fellowship, John Hopkins University, Transplant Surgery, 1999
- Fellowship, John Hopkins University, Molecular Genetics, 1997
- Residency, John Hopkins University, Surgery, 1995
- PhD from Oxford University, 1993
- Residency, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Surgery (General), 1992
- MD from University Of Rochester, 1987
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Robert Montgomery, MD, PhD does not accept insurance.
Locations and Appointments
NYU Transplant Associates
200 Old Country Road, Suite 100, Mineola, NY 11501
NYU Transplant Associates
550 First Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10016
Research Academic Contact
Academic office
403 East 34th Street
Third Floor
New York, NY 10016
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Clinical Trials and Research Studies
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Single-Center Pilot Study of Living Donor Kidney Transplant from HIV-positive Donor to HIV-positive Recipient
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A prospective long-term confirmatory follow up trial in highly sensitized patients treated with imlifidase or standard of care in the ConfIdeS (20-HMedIdeS-17) trial