Biography
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Dr. Demetris is the Division Chief of Transplant Pathology and the Thomas Starzl Professor of Pathology at the
University of Pittsburgh. With over 800 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, he is undoubtedly the premier
transplant pathologist in the world. With a Google Scholar h-index of 140 and over 83,000 citations, his
contributions to clinical transplantation and basic sciences are unrivaled. He has received continuous
government and industry funding for more than 30 years.
Dr. Demetris is best known for objectifying component scoring for allograft dysfunction - the series of papers
on the Banff criteria for allograft pathology have been cited more than 20,000 times and accounts for almost
25% of his total citations. In addition, he has contributed to the understanding of biliary immunobiology,
xenotransplantation, tolerance, alloimmunity, immunosuppression, infectious diseases, recurrent diseases and
small-for-size syndrome. As a highly engaged and coveted collaborator, he has been the central pathologist for
most industry and government sponsored multicenter transplant trials over the past 3 decades.
