Robert Montgomery (physician)


Robert Montgomery is the director of the Transplant Institute at NYU Langone Medical Center.

Early life and education

Montgomery was born in January 1960, in Buffalo, New York. The fourth of four male siblings, he decided to pursue a career in medicine after the long illness and death of his father from familial cardiomyopathy at age 52. He received his MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine in 1987.

Career

Montgomery received his general surgical training at Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1987 to 1995. He did a post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins in Human Genetics. He then finished his clinical training in Multi-Organ Transplantation at Johns Hopkins from 1997-1999 after which he joined the clinical staff as an Assistant Professor of Surgery. In 2003 Montgomery became Chief of the Division of Transplantation and Director of the Comprehensive Transplant Center at Johns Hopkins, positions he held until 2016. In the first year at those positions Montgomery was lead physician in what Johns Hopkins called the world's first simultaneous "triple swap" kidney transplant operation. Other such surgeries with Montgomery as lead physician occurred at Johns Hopkins during the decade. In 2003, Montgomery was the inaugural recipient of the Margery K. and Thomas Pozefsky Professorship in Kidney Transplantation. In 2016, he accepted a position as the inaugural Director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute in New York.

Personal life

Montgomery is married to opera singer Denyce Graves.