Roberto Hernandez-Alejandro, MD

Biography

Dr. Roberto Hernandez-Alejandro is Chief of the Division of Transplantation at the University of Rochester (URMC) since August 2016. There, he's demonstrated his ability to grow a program, leading his team to double the number of organ transplants with the best outcomes in the program's history. Under his leadership, URMC restarted live donor liver transplants, performing 30 operations over 2.5 years as well as introducing a very active program of donation after cardiac death. Dr. Hernandez is also heavily focused on liver resections, and is one of a handful of US surgeons performing the ALPPS procedure. Dr. Hernandez recently opened the second active program on liver transplantation for unresectable colorectal liver metastases in the US. Dr. Hernandez has received multiple grants for innovative research in liver cancer and regeneration and has>100 peer-reviewed publications in HPB and liver transplantation. In 2019, he joined the editorial board of Annals of Surgery, the highest impact factor surgical journal. Dr. Hernandez-Alejandro has positions in many societies, including Scientific Committee of the ALPPS Registry, Chair of the ILTS Education Committee, and President of the New York Liver Transplant Consortium.