Dr. Francis H Wright, MD

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Francis H Wright, MD specializes in Transplant Surgery of the Kidney and Pancreas at the Texas Transplant Institute at Methodist Hospital | Specialty and Transplant. Dr. Wright received his medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. After work at the University of Iowa, he directed the transplant program at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. He then came to San Antonio and helped found the Texas Transplant Institute as Director of Organ Transplantation for the Institute. Dr. Wright is certified by the American Board of Surgery, is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and has personally performed over 2000 transplant procedures over more than 20 years of transplant surgery experience. He is active with the United Network for Organ Sharing working to develop national transplant policy. Dr. Wright is a member of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, the International Transplantation Society and other major professional organizations. He has served as president of the Southern Organ Procurement Foundation and the American Foundation for Donation and Transplantation. He has research interests in immunosuppression, pancreas transplantation and organ preservation, and has multiple publications regarding organ transplant topics.