Andrew Klein, MD, MBA, FICS

2019 PRESIDENT
UNITED STATES SECTION of the INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS

Dr. Andrew Klein is the Esther and Mark Schulman Chair in Surgery and Transplant Medicine, Vice Chairman of the Department of Surgery and Director of Comprehensive Transplant Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. He received his undergraduate degree from Duke University and his M.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Johns Hopkins University. He completed residency training at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, was a Harvard research fellow in transplantation immunology at The Massachusetts General Hospital, served as a Surgical Registrar at The John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University and was a liver transplant fellow at UCLA.

Dr. Klein was appointed Professor of Surgery at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2000, at UCLA in 2005 and at Cedars-Sinai in 2008. His accomplishments in the fields of both medicine and business were recognized by Johns Hopkins, who bestowed upon him the Distinguished Alumnus Award. His scientific research has been supported by institutional, intramural (NIH), and industry funding. In 1991 he received the Johns Hopkins Clinician Scientist Award. Dr. Klein has authored or co-authored more than 150 original manuscripts and 29 chapters and has lectured extensively in North America, Asia, and Europe. 

For nearly 3 decades, Dr. Klein has played a leadership role in local and national policy making focused on organ donation, allocation, and transplantation. In 2002, Dr. Klein received his M.B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and in recognition of his outstanding performance he was honored with the Student of the Year Award. He has a keen interest in the relationship between civility and tangible benefits in healthcare. He has championed the value of service excellence and civil culture in the workplace, the selection and training of employees, and the consequences of uncivil behavior on coworkers and patients.

Dr. Klein and his wife, Julia, are avid SCUBA divers which allows Dr. Klein to pursue his passion for underwater photography. When work permits, they are likely to be found hanging out with their cows, sheep and chickens on their farm in Pennsylvania.