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ASTS Councilor Dr. Robert Montgomery Named One of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2025
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ASTS is proud to celebrate Robert Montgomery, MD, PhD, a trailblazing surgeon and leader, for being named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2025!
Dr. Montgomery is the Chair of the Department of Surgery, Director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, and a Professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. A pioneer in the field of transplant surgery, his name is synonymous with innovation.
His groundbreaking contributions include:
- Helping to develop the laparoscopic procedure for live kidney donation, which revolutionized transplant by making kidney donation less invasive, allowing for a faster recovery.
- Developing and performing the first “domino paired donation,” where two or more donors and recipients are paired in a kidney swap – expanding access to life-saving kidney transplants.
- Performing the incredible pig-to-human kidney transplant in 2024, where recipient Towana Looney was able to live without dialysis for over four months.
Dr. Montgomery has been a dedicated member of the ASTS community, serving on the American Transplant Congress (ATC) Planning Committee and the Living Donation Committee before joining the ASTS Council in 2024.
"This is a wonderful, unexpected honor. I am very grateful to the selection committee and Time Magazine for calling out the importance of advances in transplantation as being foundational in medicine and health. The body of work highlighted was produced by teamwork and many innovators have made important contributions to it."
-Robert Montgomery, MD, PhD
Congratulations Dr. Montgomery for this well-deserved honor and thank you for your extraordinary contributions to the field of transplant surgery.
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