Thomas Diflo

Thomas Diflo, M.D., F.A.C.S. is a transplant surgeon and Assistant Professor of Surgery (Kidney, Liver and Pancreatic Transplantation, General and Hepatobiliary Surgery) [ [http://www.med.nyu.edu/surgery/transplant/about/staff/physicians.html NYU Medical Center transplant team] ] at New York University Medical Center.

In a "Village Voice" article, Dr. Diflo has claimed that organs from executed Chinese criminals [ [http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0118,baard,24344,1.html Erik Baard and Rebecca Cooney, "China's Execution, Inc." in "Village Voice," May 2-8, 2001] ] have been used for transplantation and that within a three-year period he treated six patients who have paid for and received such transplants.

While many organs from condemned prisoners are transplanted in China, there is also, according to the article, "a thriving black market in organs sold by live, willing donors in poorer nations with medical know-how, like India. 'I believe that both [practices] are morally and ethically reprehensible,' Diflo says. 'If there are degrees of reprehensibility, however, China wins hands down' because the organs are coming from the executed...'."

Biography

Diflo graduated from Boston University School of Medicine in 1984, and held a surgical internship at Boston University Medical Center from 1984 to 1985. His residency training in surgery was at Boston University Medical Center from 1985 to 1986 and from 1988 to 1991. He held clinical fellowships at New England Deaconess Hospital (Transplantation Research, 1986-1988 and 1991-1992). Diflo is Board Certified in Surgery (1992) and Surgical Critical Care (1995) and is co-author of over 50 published articles.He is currently married to Amber A. Guth and is a father to Elizabeth Caroline Marie (June 13, 1986), Zoe Christina (December 23, 1998) and Benjamin Thomas Matthew (April 18, 2000).

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External links

* [http://www.med.nyu.edu/about/ New York University Medical Center]
* [http://www.med.nyu.edu/people/diflot01.html Biography]
* [http://www.med.nyu.edu/pubs/diflot01.html Publications]