Thomas D. Schiano
Thomas D. Schiano (born August 12, 1962) is an American physician who specializes in liver transplantation, intestinal transplantation, and liver disease. He is a professor of medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and holds several leadership roles at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, including medical director of adult liver transplantation and director of clinical hepatology at the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute. He also serves as associate editor for the journals Hepatology and Liver Transplantation and has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and more than 20 book chapters.
Schiano grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He earned a B.S. in biology from Fordham University and an M.D. from Universidad Del Noreste Medical School in Tampico, Mexico. He completed his residency at Maimonides Medical Center and fellowships at Memorial Sloan Kettering (clinical nutrition), Temple University Hospital (gastroenterology), and Mount Sinai Hospital (liver disease and liver transplantation).
He is a member of major professional organizations, including the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, the American College of Gastroenterology, the American Gastroenterological Association, the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the New York Organ Donor Network, and the American Society of Transplantation. His research covers liver transplantation, living donor transplantation, drug and herbal hepatotoxicity, nutrition and liver disease, cirrhosis, intestinal transplantation, disease recurrence after transplantation, treatment of viral hepatitis after transplantation, and complications related to cirrhosis and TPN.
Schiano has been recognized as one of New York Magazine’s Best Doctors and appeared on The New York Times Magazine’s Super Doctors list from 2008 to 2011. He is the principal investigator on a clinical trial involving an open-label HIV drug combination after completing a prior study.
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