Ryutaro P Hirose, MD

Dr. Ryutaro Hirose was appointed Chief of the Division of Transplant Surgery at the University of Washington and Co - Director of the UW Medicine Transplant Institute, starting his position on November 1, 2023. Dr. Hirose is a senior and well-known transplant surgeon who had previously worked at UCSF. He has extensive experience in UNOS, within the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) , and he currently serves as the Surgical Director of the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR). As a leader in transplantation, Dr. Hirose has served as Chair of the UNOS Liver Committee, Chair of the ASTS Fellowship Training Committee, the Standards and Quality Committee and served as Councilor at Large. He is currently the chair of the AASLD Liver Transplantation and Surgery Committee. As an academic surgeon he has focused on ischemia reperfusion injury in the past, has current and past research funding, and now has extensive publications and national/international presentations on policy and health services research.