Susan Sirota Ganz, MD, is Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency in Miami, Florida. Her responsibilities include recovery of organs for transplantation, pathology assessment of donated organs, quality assurance, and research. She is also assistant director of the transplant monitoring laboratory and an attending physician at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida.

Dr. Ganz earned her BS degree in biology at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, in 1975; her MS degree in genetics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York, in 1978; and her MD at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont, in 1983. Following her residency at the University of Miami Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida, she worked at the American Red Cross in Miami, Florida, under a Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine Fellowship. She is currently board certified in anatomic and clinical pathology and in blood banking.

Her research efforts concentrate on methods to increase numbers of organ donors and numbers of organs recovered for transplantation from individual donors. She is the principal investigator for studies aimed at improving the recovery of lungs for transplantation and for studies aimed at improving the numbers of people who donate organs.

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