Living Donation in Kidney Transplant

Latifa Silski is an Associate Professor of Surgery at The University of Cincinnati. She also serves as the Surgical Clerkship for the College of Medicine. As a transplant surgeon, she is a passionate advocate for living organ donations, and access to ideal medical care with multidisciplinary care across specialties, hospital systems, and dialysis access centers.  

Her undergraduate educational journey started at Cuyahoga Community College and Case Western Reserve University. She has similarly broad work experience from a barista at Caribou Coffee through undergrad; to dancing as a guest artist with Anteaus Dance while pipetting stem cell aliquots as a lab manager. She completed her Medical Doctorate at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor then went on to do her General Surgery Residency and her Transplant Surgery Fellowship at  the Ohio State University. 

Over the past six years at the University of Cincinnati, she has enjoyed being at the forefront of advancing and increasing organ utilization of medically complex organs from using Hep C and B discordant organs to recusing DCD organs via normothermic reperfusion techniques. She has participated in many of the  UCCOM educational innovations and pilot projects. She enjoys the privilege of assisting students along their own pathways to professional satisfaction.