Francis H. Wright, Jr., M.D.
San Antonio, TX

Dr. Wright is the Medical Director for Transplant Care Consultants and is concerned with quality, outcomes and access for transplant care. He previously served as Director of the Solid Organ Transplant Program, and the Director of Transplant Surgery Fellowship Program at Texas Transplant Institute on the campus of Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital in San Antonio. Dr. Wright received his MD degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in 1978. After work at the University of Iowa with Dr. Robert Corry and time in Pittsburgh with Dr. Thomas Starzl, he founded and directed the transplant program at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. He joined Dr. Lynn Banowsky in San Antonio in 1994 and later helped found the Texas Transplant Institute as Director of Organ Transplantation for the Institute.

Dr. Wright is certified by the American Board of Surgery, is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and has personally performed over 3000 transplant procedures in his over thirty years of transplant surgery experience. He has served on several committees of the United Network for Organ Sharing working to develop national transplant policy. Dr. Wright is a member of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, the International Transplantation Society and other major professional organizations. He has served as president of the Southeastern Organ Procurement Foundation and the American Foundation for Donation and Transplantation. He has had research interests in immunosuppression, pancreas transplantation and organ preservation, and has multiple publications regarding organ transplant topics. Currently his interests include patient empowerment, strategies for improving long-term outcomes and patient access, particularly in reference to distance and geography.