Dixon B. Kaufman is the Ray D. Owen Professor and Chair of the Division of Transplantation of the Department of Surgery at the School of Medicine and Public Health of the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He is also the Transplant Service Line Director of the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinic, and the surgical director of the Kidney Transplant Program. His clinical focus has been on kidney, pancreas and islet transplantation. He was the first in the U.S. to conduct pancreas transplants using protocols of alemtuzumab induction, and prednisone-free immunosuppression. His clinical experience in islet transplant included particiption in the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-supported Clinical Islet Transplant (CIT) consortium. His basic research efforts have focused on the immunobiology of islet transplantation, and most recently, kidney transplant immunological tolerance induction, the later supported by the NIH Non-human Primate Consortium Study Group. His CV lists over 200 manuscripts and book chapters. Dr. Kaufman has held national leadership positions in many facets of the transplant field. He is currently President-elect of the ASTS. Dr. Kaufman is also active with the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), recently completing service as a member of the Executive Board. Dr. Kaufman is an associate editor for the American Journal of Transplantation, Transplantation Journal, and Clinical Transplantation Journal.