John Najarian

John S. Najarian (born December 22, 1927) is an American transplant surgeon and is clinical professor of transplant surgery at the University of Minnesota. Najarian was a pioneer in thoracic transplant surgery.[1]

Achievements in academic surgery

Najarian was chairman of the department of surgery at the University of Minnesota Medical School from 1967 until 1993. He is the author of nearly a thousand articles in the medical literature. [2] He is a founding member of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and served as its fourth president. His transplant surgery fellowship program trained many prominent transplant surgeons and included minority surgeons including Clive O. Callender, who founded the transplant program at Howard University College of Medicine.[3] He did pioneering work in developing the anti-rejection drug anti-lymphocyte globulin, in pediatric liver transplantation and in xenotransplantation of porcine Islets for Type I diabetes.

In 1995, Najarian was indicted by the FDA for illegally and improperly marketing and selling anti-lymphocyte globulin (ALG), an anti rejection drug.[4] Najarian was later acquitted of these charges[5] with the presiding judge and legal and medical experts questioning the motives and purposes of FDA prosecutors and regulators.[6][7] Najarian is also the father of the former NFL football player and CNBC market analyst Pete Najarian and options trader Jon Najarian.

gollark: My current plan has exactly zero.
gollark: It's been done a lot but an osmarks.tk original game could be neat.
gollark: Some sort of tile based dungeon crawler one.
gollark: > what game are you makingDefinitely one of them.
gollark: Ugh, my internet connection is several nanoapioforms right now.

See also

References
  1. "John Najarian, MD". asts.org. American Society of Transplant Surgeons. Retrieved 25 Nov 2019.
  2. "Najarian JS - PubMed - NCBI". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. National Library of Medicine. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  3. "Clive Callender Chimera Chronicles". asts.org. American Society of Transplant Surgeons. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  4. "Surgeon Is Charged in Marketing Of Drug Linked to Deaths of 9". nytimes.com. New York Times. Retrieved 14 July 2018.
  5. "U of M med school still recovering 10 years after ALG scandal". Mprnews. Mprnews. Retrieved 14 July 2018.
  6. "John Najarian, Transplant Surgeon". DASH.Harvard.edu. Harvard DASH. Retrieved 25 Nov 2019.
  7. "The crime of saving lives. The FDA, John Najarian, and Minnesota ALG". nih.gov. NIH citation of full article in JAMA Surgery. Retrieved 25 Nov 2019.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.