David Serur, M.D. – President
Medical Director, Kidney Transplantation
Hackensack Meridian Health
Hackensack, New Jersey

Dr. Serur came to Hackensack in 2020 from New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell where he’d served since 1991 with an interest in clinical transplantation and has been Medical Director of the kidney transplant program since 2007. Research interests have included pharmaceutical industry supported studies of new transplant medications as well as investigator-initiated studies. Dr. Serur was one of the earliest proponents of offering kidney transplantation to HIV patients on dialysis, something that many thought was too risky but is now routinely done. Recent interests have been in studying non-directed donors and donors within paired exchange. He serves on the editorial board of the journals Transplantation and Progress in Transplantation and served on the medical boards of the NY Organ Donor Network and the Manhattan chapter of TRIO, the transplant recipient organization. He has been involved in kidney paired exchange since its inception at Cornell in 2008. Dr. Serur has volunteered as Medical Director of the National Kidney Registry, the largest paired exchange program in the world and AFDT is delighted to have him serve on its Board of Directors and as a speaker of AFDT’s Living Donation Conference on many occasions.