Clive O. Callender (born 1936) is an American surgeon and professor of surgery at Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C.[1] Trained in organ transplantation, he founded the Howard University Hospital Transplant Center in 1974.
[1] To enhance organ donation among African Americans and hence improve transplantation outcomes, he founded the National Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program (MOTTEP),[5] which received $16 million in funding over two decades from the National Institutes of Health Office of Research On Minority Health.
He has been a national expert and spokesman promoting organ donation and transplantation among African Americans, who suffer disproportionately from chronic renal failure.
[7][8] A lifelong Christian, he served as a medical missionary in Africa early in his career.
[9] In 2014, he was honored with a National Minority Donor Awareness Award[10] and an honorary doctoral degree by Howard University.