Gabriel Danovitch (US)

GMD received his medical degree from St Bartholomew’s Hospital of the University of London. He completed his residency training in London and in Beersheba, Israel and his nephrology fellowship training at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. He served on the faculty at Albert Einstein and then directed the nephrology unit at Soroka Hospital in Israel. He held the first John J. Kuiper Chair in Nephrology and Renal Transplantation at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA with the rank of Distinguished Professor of Medicine. He was the longtime Medical Director of its renowned Kidney Transplant Program: one of the largest and most successful in the US. GMD has devoted his career to various aspects of clinical kidney transplantation. He has published 250 original articles and 50 book chapters. He has mentored a generation of transplant physicians. He is an internationally recognized authority on transplant immunosuppression, clinical transplant care, transplant ethics and public policy. He has served on the board of the American Society of Transplantation (AST) and the United Network for Organ Donation (UNOS) and is the past Chair of its International Relations Committee. He is a founder member of the Custodian Group of the Declaration of Istanbul on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism (DICG). He is currently Medical Director of OneLegacy, the organ procurement agency of Southern California. The seventh edition of his classic textbook, the “Handbook of Kidney Transplantation” was published in January 2026. Previous editions have translated into five languages and have become required reading for those entering the field. In 2018 Dr Danovitch was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of UK. In 2020 he was awarded the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) Excellence in Kidney Transplantation Award and the American Society of Transplantation (AST) Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2023 he became Emeritus Professor at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. As of 2024 he is a staff physician at the Veterans Administration of Greater Los Angeles (VAGLA)