Through the Looking Glass: A Journey in Transplant Infectious Diseases

Jay A. Fishman, M.D. is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS), Director of the Transplant Infectious Diseases and Compromised Host Program at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and Associate Director of the MGH Transplant Center. Dr. Fishman received his MD from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, internal medicine training and Infectious Disease Fellowship at MGH, and postdoctoral Fellowships in Molecular Biology and Genetics at MGH and HMS. His clinical studies defined the timeline of post-transplant infectious disease and prophylactic strategies for CMV and Pneumocystis in transplantation. His basic research is focused on molecular studies of opportunistic pathogens in immunocompromised hosts including clinical xenotransplantation. His mechanistic studies demonstrated the role of human CMV infection in transplantation in predisposing to fungal infection and graft rejection – the “indirect effects” of CMV. His lab cloned and sequenced the porcine endogenous retrovirus (PERV) and porcine cytomegalovirus (PCMV) in xenotransplantation.

Dr. Fishman is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, American Society of Transplantation, Infectious Disease Society of America and the European Society of Microbiology and Clinical Infectious Diseases. He is Past-President of the American Society of Transplantation, President of the International Xenotransplantation Association and Councilor of the Transplantation Society. He has received career achievement awards from AST and TTS.