Mark A. Hardy, MD

Mark A. Hardy, MD is Auchincloss Professor of Surgery, Vice Chairman and Residency Program Director of the Department of Surgery, and Director Emeritus of the NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center Transplant Center. He was President of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons in 1994 and served as Councillor of the Transplantation Society (International) for three terms. He now serves as Director of the NY Islet Resource Center. He is an editor of the journal Transplantation and has published more than 300 articles on subjects varying from surgical techniques to basic immunology. He is the editor of one of the first books on Xenotransplantation and another on organ replacement in diabetes mellitus.

His professional scientific career has revolved around transplantation and transplantation biology, with a major interest in the immune responses in induction of tolerance including alteration of donor immunogenicity and of antigen presentation. His most recent focus has been on cellular transplantation with emphasis on islet transplantation. His clinical interests have been in transplantation and vascular surgery.

Dr. Hardy is a former Director of Vascular Surgery and Transplantation at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and former Director of Transplantation at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is the Founding Director and former President of the New York Organ Donor Network and former Director and member of the Board of Directors of UNOS.