Thomas G. Peters, M.D.
University of Florida College of Medicine 
Jacksonville, FL

Dr. Thomas G. Peters served as The Methodist Medical Center Professor of Surgery and is currently Professor of Surgery Emeritus at the University of Florida, Jacksonville. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 1970 and took general surgery training in the hospitals of the Medical College of Wisconsin followed by a clinical fellowship in organ transplantation at the University of Colorado. From 1978 to 1988 he served on the faculty of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, where he rose to the tenured rank of Professor of Surgery.

Moving to Florida in 1988, Dr. Peters organized the Jacksonville Transplant Center at Methodist Medical Center as its founding Director, and served as Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Methodist. He became Chief of the Transplant Division at the University of Florida, Jacksonville and thereafter at UF-Shands Gainesville. In 2006, Dr. Peters received a gubernatorial appointment to the Florida Board of Medicine. He was a commissioned medical officer in the U.S. Army Reserve for over three decades, during which time he was active staff at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, served three active duty war-time tours, and retired as a Medical Corps Colonel. He is a past-president of SEOPF, and serves the American Society of Transplant Surgeons as Historian Emeritus and Chair of the ASTS Foundation.