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Enrico Benedetti, MD

Transplant

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Dr. Enrico Benedetti is a transplant surgeon at UI Health. Dr. Benedetti is a prominent leader in organ transplantation and in the use of robotic-assisted techniques in transplantation. He has to his credit many successful surgical firsts, including the first robotic donor nephrectomy for a living-donor kidney transplant, the first combined living-donor liver and bowel transplant from an adult to an infant, the first robotic combined kidney and pancreas procurement for a living-donor transplant, and the largest series of living-donor intestinal transplants in the world. Dr. Benedetti is Professor and Head of Surgery and the Warren H. Cole Chair in Surgery.

Specialties & Services

• Kidney Transplant
• Liver Transplant
• Pancreas Transplant
• Robotic and Minimally Invasive Surgery
• Small Bowel Transplant
• Surgery General
• Transplantation Surgery
• Small Bowel Transplant
• Hepatobiliary Surgery

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Education

• Board Certification: American Board of Surgery
• Fellowship: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Medical School
• Medical School: University of Florence College of Medicine
• Residency: University of Florence
• Residency: University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago