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Bio for Antonio di Carlo, M.D.

Antonio di Carlo, M.D.

Associate Professor of Surgery
Division of Transplant Surgery
Director of Hepatobiliary Surgery
Department of Surgery

Contact Information

E-mail: Antonio.Di-Carlo@uvm.edu
Office Location: Surgery, Fletcher Rm 469A

Education

M.D., McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (1996)
Residency in General Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (1996-2003)
Adult and Pediatric Multivisceral Transplant Surgery Fellowship, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI (2003-2005)

Academic Appointments

Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Transplant, Department of Surgery,College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 2010 - present
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Transplant, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 2005 - 2010
Clinical Instructor, Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine Madison, WI 2003 - 2005

Research Interests

Xenotransplantation and endothelial cell activation
Role of NKT cells in the induction of tolerance in liver
transplantation
Clinical trials of immunosuppressive therapies

Publications

Ryan JR, McMillian WD, Yamaguchi JS, Di Carlo A.The utility of basiliximab in solid organ transplants while on a calcineurin “holiday.” Submitted to Clinical Transplantation September 2010

Bergman S, Di Carlo A, Chaudhury P, Blum C, Nahal A, Metrakos P. Recurrent pyogenic cholangitis in a white woman. Can J Surg. 2007;10 (50(5)):E9-10.

Fernandez LA*, Di Carlo A*, Odorico JS, Leverson GE, Shames BD, Becker YT, Chin LT, Pirsch JD, Knechtle SJ, Sollinger HW, D’Alessandro AM. Simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation from donation after cardiac death: Successful long-term outcomes. Ann Surg. 2005; 242(2): 716-23. *Equally contributing

Di Carlo A, Odorico JS, Leverson GE, LA Fernandez, LT Chin, YT Becker, SJ Knechtle, JD Pirsch, AM D’Alessandro and HW Sollinger. Long-term outcomes in simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation: Lessons relearned. In: JM Cecka and PI Terasaki, Eds. Clinical Transplants 2003. Los Angeles, UCLA Immunogenetics Center, 2004, pp 215-220.

D’Alessandro AM, Fernandez LA, Chin LT, Shames BD, Turgeon NA, Scott DL, Di Carlo A, Becker YT, Odorico JS, Knechtle SJ, Love RB, Pirsch JD, Becker BN, Musat AI, Kalayoglu M, Sollinger HW. Donation after cardiac death: The University of Wisconsin experience. Ann Transplant 2004; 9(1): 68-71.

Di Carlo A, Odorico JS, Sollinger HW. Pancreas Transplantation: An Overview. Transplantation Reviews 2004; 18(1):1-9.

Tan M, Di Carlo A, Liu S, Tector AJ, Tchervenkov JI, Metrakos P. Hepatic sinusoidal endothelium upregulates IL-1á, IFN-ã and iNOS in response to discordant xenogeneic islets in an in vitro model of xenoislet transplantation. J Surg Res 2002; 102: 229-36.

Seely AJ, Naud JF, Campisi G, Giannias B, Liu S, Di Carlo A, Ferri LE, Pascual JL, Tchervenkov J, Christou NV. Alteration of chemoattractant receptor expression regulates human neutrophil chemotaxis in vivo. Ann Surg 2002;235(4): 550-9.