Transplantation, Innovation & Mastery of Robotic Surgery
Visit The Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery Division site to learn more about this extraordinary team of world-class surgeons.
Dr. Enrico Benedetti and his team at the University of Illinois Medical Center (UICMC) performed the first fully robotic enabled kidney transplant in the Midwest.
It is my pleasure to welcome you to the Department of Surgery at the University of Illinois Chicago. The department is comprised of seven surgical divisions, covering all fields of modern surgery. We are home to the largest program in non-urological robotic surgery in the world, among the top five islet transplant programs in the country and, the single most active living donor, liver-bowel transplant program, worldwide.
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Transplantation: Best Survival Rates UIC Achieves Best Abdominal Transplantation Survival Rates in Chicago. Read More
The Department of Surgical Oncology Joins the Department of Surgery The Department of Surgical Oncology
joined the Department of Surgery as
its newest division on July 1, 2010.
This announcement was followed with
the appointment of Michael A. Warso,
MD as the Chief, Division of Surgical
Oncology.