Eduardo Fernandes, is transplant and hepatobiliary surgeon at Cleveland Clinic Florida.
He graduated from University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ magna cum laude.
He trained in general surgery within the London deanery school of surgery before joining the surgical residency program of the University of Illinois at Chicago.
He is board certified in general surgery and he is a fellow of both the American and the Royal College of Surgeons.
He has undergone extensive subspecialty training in HPB surgery at Kings’ College Hospital (London, UK), robotic surgery at University of Illinois at Chicago and Liver and Kidney transplantation at the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio.
Dr Fernandes has dedicated his career to the integration of basic sciences and clinical practice which he believes to be the key to fast medical and surgical advancements. He is a PhD laureate from Imperial College London University where he defended a thesis on transplantation tolerance.
His main research interest is platform optimization and graft evaluation during normothermic machine perfusion.