Alan J. Koffron, M.D., has been named director of multi-organ transplantation at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak.

Beaumont currently has a kidney transplant program. It is adding liver and mutli-organ transplants with the arrival of Dr. Koffron.

“We’re very pleased Dr. Koffron has agreed to lead Beaumont’s new multidisciplinary transplantation program," said Charles Shanley, N.D., senior vice president of surgical services and chair of the department of surgery at Beaumont. "He is one of the world’s leading innovators in laparoscopic and live-donor liver transplantation. His international clinical and academic reputation and experience will benefit our patients, Beaumont Hospitals and the Oakland University-William Beaumont School of Medicine.”

Before joining Beaumont, Dr. Koffron served as the medical director of the Living Donor Liver Transplant Program at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago and associate professor of transplantation surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University Medical School.

Dr. Koffron attended the University of Iowa College of Medicine. He completed residencies in general, thoracic and trauma surgeries at the University Health Sciences/Chicago Medical School. In addition, Dr. Koffron completed dual fellowships in multi-organ and pediatric liver transplantation at Northwestern University and Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago.

Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, received approval on Oct. 3, 2007 from the Michigan Department of Community Health’s Certificate of Need commission to develop a new liver transplantation program. The approved CON will make Beaumont, Royal Oak the third liver transplant program in Michigan. 

Beaumont plans to offer Michigan residents both traditional and live-donor liver transplantation services, laparoscopic liver surgery and minimally invasive liver donation. The new program will provide a full spectrum of care for liver disease.

“While a liver transplant program is new to Beaumont, the hospital has been performing kidney transplant surgeries for more than 30 years. We perform about 50-60 kidney transplants a year,” says Leslie Rocher, M.D., senior vice president, Medical Services and transplant nephrology specialist.