Johnny C. Hong, MD

Johnny C. Hong, MD, FACS, is professor of surgery and holds the inaugural Mark B. Adams Chair in Surgery at The Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Hong is a highly-accomplished and innovative clinician and researcher. His clinical expertise encompasses the entire spectrum of liver transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery for adults and children. His laboratory research has focused on development of new treatments in organ resuscitation to mitigate the adverse effects of ischemia and reperfusion injury. The goal of his research is to convert otherwise discarded marginal organs to transplantable livers, in the hopes of decreasing the number of patient deaths while on the transplant waitlist.