{"id":9790,"date":"2019-07-02T14:36:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T18:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=9790"},"modified":"2020-01-17T11:52:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T16:52:22","slug":"visiting-professor-arthur-matas-md-professor-department-of-surgery-university-of-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/event\/visiting-professor-arthur-matas-md-professor-department-of-surgery-university-of-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Professor: Arthur Matas, MD, Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota &#8220;Controversies in Increasing Living Kidney Donation&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10969 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/854\/2019\/07\/Matas-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/854\/2019\/07\/Matas-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/854\/2019\/07\/Matas.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.surgery.umn.edu\/bio\/surgery\/arthur-matas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Arthur J.\u00a0<span data-scaytid=\"1\">Matas<\/span>, MD<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is Professor of Surgery and Director of the Renal Transplant Program at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Dr.\u00a0<span data-scaytid=\"2\">Matas<\/span>\u00a0is the principal investigator on three\u00a0<span data-scaytid=\"5\">NIH<\/span>\u00a0grants concerning ways to improve outcomes for transplantation patients. He has authored or\u00a0<span data-scaytid=\"6\">coauthored<\/span>over 600 articles and book chapters and his research has been presented at numerous national and international meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Dr.\u00a0<span data-scaytid=\"3\">Matas<\/span>\u00a0earned his medical degree in 1972 at the University of Manitoba College of Medicine in Winnipeg, Canada, and did his surgical residency and transplantation fellowship at the University of Minnesota Hospitals, where he was actively involved in clinical and laboratory research.<\/p>\n<p>A member of many surgical and transplant-related societies, including the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (of which he is currently Past President), the American Society of Transplantation, The Transplantation Society, the American Society of\u00a0<span data-scaytid=\"7\">Nephrology<\/span>, the American Surgical Association, and the American College of Surgeons), Dr.\u00a0<span data-scaytid=\"4\">Matas<\/span>\u00a0serves on the editorial board or is a reviewer for numerous journals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur J.\u00a0Matas, MD\u00a0is Professor of Surgery and Director of the Renal Transplant Program at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Currently, Dr.\u00a0Matas\u00a0is the principal investigator on three\u00a0NIH\u00a0grants concerning ways to improve outcomes for transplantation patients. He has authored or\u00a0coauthoredover 600 articles and book chapters and his research has been presented at numerous national and international meetings. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/event\/visiting-professor-arthur-matas-md-professor-department-of-surgery-university-of-minnesota\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Visiting Professor: Arthur Matas, MD, Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota &#8220;Controversies in Increasing Living Kidney Donation&#8221;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83776,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-9790","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Visiting Professor: Arthur Matas, MD, Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota &quot;Controversies in Increasing Living Kidney Donation&quot; | Department of Surgery<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/event\/visiting-professor-arthur-matas-md-professor-department-of-surgery-university-of-minnesota\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Visiting Professor: Arthur Matas, MD, Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota &quot;Controversies in Increasing Living Kidney Donation&quot; | Department of Surgery\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Arthur J.\u00a0Matas, MD\u00a0is Professor of Surgery and Director of the Renal Transplant Program at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. 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