Francis L. Delmonico, M.D., is professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and emeritus professor of renal transplantation at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where he continues to practice as a transplant surgeon. He also serves as medical director of the New England Organ Bank in Newton, Mass.

Dr. Delmonico is vice president/president-elect of the OPTN/UNOS board of directors. Since 1986 he has served on a number of OPTN/UNOS committees, including the ethics, scientific advisory, living organ donor, and kidney and pancreas transplantation committees as well as the ad hoc foreign nationals committee. He additionally was a member of the Region 1 liver review board and the advisory council on non-heart-beating donation. He also has served as chair of the advisory committee on the National Transplant Tumor Registry.

In addition to his OPTN/UNOS responsibilities, he is a member of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Advisory Committee on Transplantation, previously serving as chair of its subcommittee on clinical issues. He is a councillor of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and has previously served in that capacity for the American Society of Transplantation (AST). He is chair of the ethics committee of the Transplantation Society (International). He has convened national meetings on living donation and national conferences on non-directed donation and expanded criteria donation as well as other transplant-related issues, such as the transplant wait list. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Service Award of the AST and the National Kidney Foundation.

Dr. Delmonico received his medical degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C.