Kishore IYER

Mount Sinai Hospital

Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics & Global Health

Description

Kishore Iyer is director of adult and pediatric intestinal rehabilitation & transplantation at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York (until recently also surgical director of pediatric liver transplantation), and a professor of transplant surgery and pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, as well as professor at the Arnhold Institute of Health System Design and Global Health at the Icahn School of Medicine. Kishore is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. In July 2024, he completed a Masters in Science (MSc) in Evaluation of Health Interventions and Outcomes at the London School of Economics, London, UK. Kishore trained in general and pediatric surgery in the UK. His research at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London, won the 1996 British Association of Pediatric Surgeons Prize for his pioneering work identifying phytosterols in soy-based lipid emulsions as a potential cause for intestinal failure-associated liver disease. Kishore trained in transplant surgery at Chicago and Omaha and was responsible for establishing and directing the intestinal rehabilitation program in Omaha, the first of its kind nationally. Kishore has served on several national and international committees and is a past Board Member of the Oley Foundation, a large support group for patients with intestinal failure. Kishore’s current clinical and research interests are in the broad areas of intestinal failure and transplant as well as health services research to improve access to expert care for patients with intestinal failure. He has published extensively in these areas. See full list of publications at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1tyZvkNvfQH5xP/bibliography/public/ In 2019 Kishore launched a virtual tele-learning program in intestinal failure, the Learn Intestinal Failure-TeleECHO Program (LIFT-ECHO) May 2019; see www.liftecho.org. The LIFT-ECHO Project is supported by generous grant funding through the NIH/AHRQ, When not involved with intestinal failure, Kishore is a politics-junkie, has a very eclectic taste in music and remains an avid motorcyclist.