Biography

Joren Madsen, MD, DPHL, is Director of the Transplant Center and Co-Director of the Center for Transplantation Sciences at Massachusetts General Hospital, Paul S. Russell/Warner-Lambert Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Surgery at Mass General.

Dr. Madsen received his bachelor's degree from Brown University and his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1982. After completing his first three years of general surgery training at Mass General, he was awarded the Claude E. Welch Surgical Research fellowship to study at Oxford University. His work there culminated in a doctorate degree from Balliol College in Immunology. Dr. Madsen completed his surgical residency in 1990 and went on to train in cardiothoracic surgery at Mass General and Boston Children's Hospital. He joined the Division of Cardiac Surgery in 1993.

Currently, Dr. Madsen is Professor of Surgery at Mass General and the Paul S. Russell/Warner-Lambert Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.  He directs the Transplant Center, which encompasses kidney, liver, lung, heart, pancreas and small bowel transplantation in adults and children. He is also Co-Director of the Center for Transplantation Science (CTS), a large,  basic and translational research laboratory studying transplantation immunology. Dr. Madsen divides his time between cardiac transplant surgery, transplant immunology research, teaching and administration. His academic interests have focused on transplantation tolerance, chronic rejection, innate immunity, and xenotransplantation. He has a strong commitment to both clinical and scientific education, having mentored over 30 pre- and post-doctoral fellows in his laboratory.

Dr. Madsen currently serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of Transplantation. He is a past president of the American Society of Transplantation, the first surgeon to be elected to that position.

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