Organ Transplantation and Society

Félix Cantarovich is a Doctor of Medicine. Previously an Associate Professor at the University of Buenos Aires and the University of Lyon, he was Consultant of the Transplant Service of the Necker Hospital in Paris and Professor of Transplantology and Director of the Postgraduate Course at the Catholic University Argentina. He founded the Argentine Transplant Program, and served as secretary of the International Transplant Society. He has received awards as a Pioneer in Transplants from the International Transplant Society and the Latin American Transplant Society. He was an advisor in Xenotransplantation to his Holiness John Paul II. He has published more than 100 works in transplantology, and is the editor Advances in Acute Renal Failure. His current interest is related to new proposals in social education, with respect to organ donation.