Alan Reed

Alan Reed, MD MBA FACS is a professor in the Department of Surgery, as well as the director of the UI Organ Transplant Center and the Division of Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. He is also an adjunct professor of accounting at the Henry B. Tippie School of Management at The University of Iowa.

Dr. Reed started his academic career at The University of Iowa in 2007, and prior to that he held academic positions at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York (1991-1994), as well as the University Of Florida College Of Medicine in Gainesville, Florida (1994-2007).

He received his B.S. in biology summa cum laude from Hobart College in Geneva, New York, in 1980, his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College in 1984, and his MBA from the Henry B. Tippie School of Management at the University of Iowa in 2012. He did his residency in general surgery at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center (1984-1989) and his fellowship in multi-organ abdominal transplantation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1989-1991).

He has authored numerous articles and book chapters and served multiple professional organizations including as a counselor to the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (2017-20, United Network for Organ Sharing, and as the vice-chair of the Iowa Donor Network Board of Directors (2009-2019).