Robert A. Montgomery MD, DPhil, FACS

Dr. Robert A. Montgomery is the Chairman of Surgery and the Director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute. He received his Doctor of Medicine with Honor from the University of Rochester and his PhD from The University of Oxford as a Fulbright Scholar. Dr. Montgomery completed his surgical training, transplantation fellowship, and postdoctoral fellowship in Human Genetics at Johns Hopkins where he served as the Director of the Comprehensive Transplant Center.

He was part of the team that developed the laparoscopic procedure for live kidney donation. He pioneered desensitization of incompatible kidney transplant patients and conceived the idea of domino “donor swaps” which has resulted in 10,000 transplants. In 2021, he led the team that performed the first gene edited pig-to-human xenotransplant.

Dr. Montgomery is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. Newsweek Magazine featured him as one of America’s Greatest Disruptors in 2021 and he was named a 2025 Time100 most influential people in the world. He received the Liberty Science Center’s 2022 Genius Award, the Starzl Innovation Award and the prestigious Jacobson Innovation Award. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy presented him with the Order of Merit for his surgical care of Ukrainian patients during the war.