AST Senior Achievement Award in Clinical Transplantation AOPO The President's Award Francis L. Delmonico, MD, FACS (born in New York in 1945) is an American surgeon, clinical professor and health expert in the field of transplantation.

His initial general surgical training was under the direction of pioneer transplant surgeon Dr. David Hume at the Medical College of Virginia.

After serving for two years in the United States Navy as a staff surgeon at Walter Reed Medical Center, an assistant professor of surgery at the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine, and as ship's surgeon on the USS Independence, Delmonico was recruited to the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1980 as a member of the transplantation unit of the department of surgery.

In the early part of his career, he focused upon the management of recipient immunosuppression and more recently upon the clinical parameters that define the suitable organ donor.

Under his direction, the NEOB has undertaken several research projects, most notably an outcome study of organs transplanted from deceased donors who were bacteremic at the time of their death.

He has been responsible for the development of the Donation after Cardiac Death initiative in transplant centers who are members of the NEOB.

Delmonico has served on the board of trustees and numerous committees of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS).

As chairman of TTS's ethics committee, he convened an international forum on the live kidney donor in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in April 2004, and on the liver lung, liver, intestine and pancreas donor in Vancouver, Canada, in September 2005, with participation of over 100 physicians and surgeons from 44 countries around the world.