David E. R. Sutherland, M.D.

Dr. Sutherland graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1966, completed his Surgical Residency in 1975, and a Transplant Fellowship in 1976.  He has been on the faculty at the University of Minnesota since 1976, Professor of Surgery since 1984, and Head of the Division of Transplantation since 1994. He is also Director of the Diabetes Institute for Immunology and Transplantation at the University of Minnesota. Since 1980, he has been Director of the International Pancreas Transplant Registry. He was recently (2002-2004) President of The Transplantation Society, the Past President of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (1990-91), the Cell Transplantation Society (1996), and the International Pancreas and Islet Transplantation Society (1997).  His major academic interests include an array of transplantation topics with special emphasis in clinical and experimental pancreas and islet transplantation.  He is author or co-author on well over 1000 publications.