frank dor

Frank Dor studied Medicine in Antwerp and at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (MD, cum laude). After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Transplantation Biology Research Center at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA, Frank was trained as an abdominal transplant surgeon at the Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He continued working there as a Consultant Transplant Surgeon and Surgical Director of Kidney Transplantation. He did a sabbatical at the Liver Transplant Unit of King’s College Hospital in London and joined the Imperial College Renal and Transplant Centre at Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK, in 2016 as Consultant Transplant Surgeon and Lead for Transplantation until July 2024.

He has been back at Erasmus MC Transplant Institute since July 2024.

Frank is an active clinical and translational scientist and a passionate educationalist.

He served as Chair of ESOT’s education committee, Hesperis Course Chair, ESOT council member and Lead of the Social Media Ambassador program, BTS council member, Deputy-Chair of the Kidney Advisory Group of NHS Blood and Transplant, Chair of the Clinical Ethics Committee of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, UK national delegate of the UEMS Division for Transplant Surgery, Senior Secretary of the UEMS Division for Transplant Surgery, and Secretary General of the European Society for Surgical Research (ESSR).

Frank is Treasurer of ESOT, Director of the ESOT Live Donor Nephrectomy Course, and a member of the European Surgical Association. He is an advisor to the Peter Morris Centre for Evidence in Transplantation.

Frank is Editor-in-Chief of European Surgical Research, Academic Editor of PLOS One, Associate Editor of Transplantation and the World Journal of Transplantation, and an editorial board member of several other transplant and surgical journals.

He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and books.