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David Mulligan, M.D., an acclaimed abdominal organ transplant surgeon and a passionate advocate for organ donation, has been appointed chief of transplantation and immunology, and professor of surgery at the School of Medicine, and director of Yale-New Haven Hospital's transplantation center.

Mulligan succeeds Sukru Emre, M.D., a renowned adult and pediatric liver transplant surgeon who transformed the Yale transplant program into a regional leader in the evaluation and the treatment of liver disease. Mulligan, who joined the Yale faculty on Sept. 1, is also a liver transplant specialist with international acclaim for his work in living donor liver transplantation. He spent 15 years with the Mayo Clinic in Arizona, and was involved in the establishment of a solid organ transplant program. Mulligan and his colleagues performed nearly 3,000 solid organ transplants with successful clinical outcomes. He is a devoted champion for organ donations on a national scale.

At Yale, Mulligan will oversee a multidisciplinary team of physicians and caregivers who provide comprehensive care for adult and pediatric patients who are candidates for organ transplantation. The Yale–New Haven Transplantation Center is the only center in New England that performs more than 100 kidney transplants a year, more than 40% of which involve living donors. The Pediatric Liver Transplant Program, which led the nation in the number of pediatric living donor liver transplants in 2010, consistently ranks in the top three in the nation among all pediatric liver transplant programs in both patient outcomes and number of living donor transplants performed.