Mr Frank Dor Head of transplantation, consultant transplant and general surgeon
- Patient age group
- Adults
- Consultant registered on
- 27/02/2012
- Primary medical qualifications
- MD PhD FEBS(Hon)
- Foreign languages
- Gender
- Male
- Services
- Hospitals
Contact
- Phone
- 020 3313 5165
Paula Hepburn, secretary
Background
Mr Frank Dor attended medical school in Antwerp, Belgium and Rotterdam, Netherlands. He qualified from Erasmus MC University cum laude.
He completed his PhD (cum laude) at Harvard Medical School and Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Mr Dor undertook his general surgery and transplant surgery training at Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Expertise
Transplantation surgery, live kidney donation, laparoscopic donor nephrectomy, surgery for polycystic kidney disease, dialysis access surgery, peritoneal dialysis, encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis
Research & publications
Mr Dor's research interests are:
1. Living organ donation, especially live kidney donation. His interests range from surgical technical topics, ethics, psychosocial and informed consent to donor screening and follow up.
2. Ischemia reperfusion injury: including reconditioning strategies (ischemic conditioning, machine perfusion, cellular therapies, dietary preconditioning, immunomodulation)
3. Stem cell therapy
4. Kidney transplantation
5. Evidence-based medicine in transplantation
6. Social media