Anthony M D'Alessandro, MD
Professor
- Endowed Professor, Mark A. Fischer Professorship in Transplantation
- Section of Liver and Kidney Surgery
- Division of Transplantation
adalessandro@uwhealth.org
(608) 263-9903
Clinical Science Center
600 Highland Avenue
Madison WI 53792
Education
- MD, Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, PA, 1981
- Internship and Residency, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1981-1987
- Transplantation Research Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984-1985
- Transplantation and Clinical Research Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1987-1989
Honors
Castle Connolly America’s Top Doctors Surgery
Best Doctors in America Award Surgery, Transplantation
Madison Magazine Top Docs 2016 Award Surgery, Transplantation
Clinical Specialties
Dr. D’Alessandro is certified by the American Board of Surgery in general surgery. His clinical specialties are liver, kidney and small bowel transplants and hepatobiliary surgery.
Dr. D'Alessandro provides a wide range of services including Intestine Transplant, Kidney Transplant, Liver Transplant, Pediatric Liver Transplant, Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy, Liver Resection.
Research Interests
Dr. D’Alessandro’s research interests include marketing and social networking efforts to increase awareness and rate of organ and tissue donation and policies regarding the implementation of donation after cardiac death.
Recent Publications
Use of preprocurement biopsy in donation after circulatory death liver transplantation.
Bolognese AC, Foley DP, Sparks CJ, Schneider AK, D'Alessandro AM, Neidlinger NA
Liver Transpl 2022 May 21;
[PubMed ID: 35596660]Complement Blockade in Recipients Prevents Delayed Graft Function and Delays Antibody-mediated Rejection in a Nonhuman Primate Model of Kidney Transplantation.
Eerhart MJ, Reyes JA, Blanton CL, Danobeitia JS, Chlebeck PJ, Zitur LJ, Springer M, Polyak E, Coonen J, Capuano S, D'Alessandro AM, Torrealba J, van Amersfoort E, Ponstein Y, van Kooten C, Burlingham W, Sullivan J, Pozniak M, Zhong W, Yankol Y, Fernandez LA
Transplantation 2022 01 01; 106(1): 60-71
[PubMed ID: 34905763]Predicting the Safe Use of Deceased After Circulatory Death Liver Allografts in Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis.
Fleetwood VA, Janek K, Leverson G, Welch B, Yankol Y, Foley D, Mezrich J, D'Alessandro A, Fernandez L, Al-Adra DP
Exp Clin Transplant 2021 06; 19(6): 563-569
[PubMed ID: 33952182]Organ recovery from deceased donors with prior COVID-19: A case series.
Neidlinger NA, Smith JA, D'Alessandro AM, Roe D, Taber TE, Pereira MR, Friedman AL
Transpl Infect Dis 2021 Apr; 23(2): e13503
[PubMed ID: 33174324]A comparison of rates and severity of chronic kidney disease in deceased-donor and living-donor liver transplant recipients: times matter
Yankol Y, Bugeaud E, Zens T, Rizzari M, Mecit N, Leverson GE, Foley D, Mezrich JD, Kanmaz T, Andaçoğlu OM, D'Alessandro AM, Acarlı KS, Kalayoğlu M, Fernandez LA
Turk J Med Sci 2021 04 30; 51(2): 610-622
[PubMed ID: 33037873]