Associate Professor of Surgery University of Maryland School of Medicine
Head, Abdominal Transplant Program University of Maryland Medical Center
Benjamin Philosophe, M.D., Ph.D., head the University of Maryland’s Division of Transplantation, specializes in liver, pancreas and kidney transplants.
Dr. Philosophe came to the University of Maryland in 1997 as a fellow, and then joined the faculty in 1998. Since then, he has helped develop the medical center’s living donor liver program, in which part of the liver from a living donor provides a lifesaving transplant for a person in liver failure.
Dr. Philosophe’s research focuses on the role of the liver in preventing organ rejection following a transplant. In 2001, he published a large, authoritative study demonstrating that a particular surgical approach could significantly reduce organ rejection among people who have a pancreas transplant. He showed that connecting a transplanted pancreas to the blood vessel that drains into the liver, instead of the traditional technique of bypassing the liver, helps the body’s immune system to become more tolerant of the new organ, decreasing rejection.
Dr. Philosophe received his medical degree and his Ph.D at Boston University. He did his surgical residency at Barnes Hospital, Washington University Medical Center in St. Louis before coming to the University of Maryland.
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