Dr. Barth is a Professor of Surgery and serves as the Division Chief and Co-Director of the University of Chicago Medicine Transplant Institute. His clinical practice focuses on kidney, pancreas, and liver transplant with specific accomplishments in living donor kidney and liver transplantation. Dr. Barth has pioneered minimally invasive surgery for living kidney donation and developed and has performed over 600 ‘scarless,’ single-port laparoscopic donor nephrectomies.

Dr. Barth has active clinical and basic research interests that include novel immunosuppressive therapies, immunologic tolerance, and the use of genetically engineered animal organs for human transplantation (xenotransplantation). Dr. Barth led an active lab investigating transplant tolerance and pre-clinical models of composite facial and limb transplantation, toward the clinical goal of reconstructive transplantation. He has over 120 publications in journals including Lancet, Annals of Surgery, American Journal of Transplantation and Xenotransplantation