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Antonio Di Carlo, MD, CM, FACS, FRCSC

Antonio Di Carlo
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  • Professor, Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
  • Chief, Abdominal Organ Transplant Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
  • Surgical Director, Kidney, Liver and Pancreas Transplantation, and Living Donation, Temple University Hospital
  • Chief, Transplantation, Saint Christopher’s Hospital for Children

Specialties

Kidney Transplant, Liver Transplant, Pancreas Transplant

Distinctions
2022 Top Doctors by Philadelphia magazine
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About Me
Publications
About Me
Clinical Interests
  • Transplantation of liver, kidney, and pancreas
  • Multivisceral transplant surgery
  • Laparoscopic and single incision laparoscopic living donor nephrectomy and adrenalectomy
  • Living donation for transplantation
  • Liver resection
  • Liver, gallbladder, bile duct and pancreas surgery
  • Biliary reconstruction, adrenal surgery
Highlights

Dr. Di Carlo was featured in a 6 ABC "Moves in Medicine" segment. Watch the video to learn more about the impact of living donors to save a life.

Education
  • Fellowship, Transplant Surgery, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI
  • Fellowship, Experimental Surgery (Research), McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • Residency, General Surgery, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • MD, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Training
  • Fellowship, Transplant Surgery, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI
  • Fellowship, Experimental Surgery (Research), McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • Residency, General Surgery, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Board Certification
  • Surgery
Memberships
  • Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
  • New England Surgical Society
  • American Society of Transplant Surgeons
  • Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association Present Canadian Society of Transplantation
  • The Transplantation Society
  • Canadian Association of General Surgeons
Awards and Honors
  • Top Doctors, Surgery, Philadelphia Magazine, 2019-2022
Offices

Office Locations

Abdominal Organ Transplant Program

Temple University Hospital – Main Campus

3401 N. Broad Street

Outpatient Building, 4th Floor

Philadelphia, PA 19140

800-TEMPLE-MED

Temple Pancreas & Liver Transplant Program at St. Luke’s

St. Luke's Gastroenterology

701 Ostrum Street

Suite 201

Bethlehem, PA 18015

484-526-6545

Temple Kidney Transplant Program at St. Luke's

St. Luke's Nephrology Associates
834 Eaton Avenue
Suite 301
Bethlehem, PA 18018
484-526-7780

Publications
Digital Bibliography
Publications

Di Carlo A and McFadden DW. “Choledocholithiasis and Cholangitis (Chapter 49).” In: Maingot's Abdominal Operations, 12e. Eds. MJ Zinner and SW Ashley. (December 2012).

Di Carlo A, Odorico JS, Leverson GE, LA Fernandez, LT Chin, YT Becker, SJ Knechtle, JD Pirsch, AM D’Alessandro and HW Sollinger. “Long-term outcomes in simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation: Lessons relearned.” In: JM Cecka and PI Terasaki, Eds. Clinical Transplants 2003. Los Angeles, UCLA Immunogenetics Center, 2004, pp 215-220.

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