Kishore R. Iyer MBBS, FRCS, FACS

Kishore Iyer is director of adult and pediatric intestinal rehabilitation & transplantation at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, and a professor of transplant surgery and pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. Kishore is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Kishore's research at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London, won the 1996 British Association of Pediatric Surgeons Prize for his pioneering work identifying phytosterols in soy-based lipid emulsions as a potential cause for intestinal failure-associated liver disease. Kishore’s current clinical and research interests are in the broad areas of intestinal failure and transplant as well as drug development for intestinal failure. He has published extensively in these areas. See list of over 85 publications at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m.... In 2019 he launched a virtual tele-learning program in intestinal failure, the Learn Intestinal Failure-TeleECHO Program (LIFT-ECHO) May 2019; see www.liftecho.org. When not involved with intestinal failure, Kishore is a politics-junkie, has a very eclectic taste in music and remains an avid motorcyclist.
kishore.iyer@mountsinai.org