Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Philip Belitsky, M.D., F.R.C.S. (C)
Dr. Philip Belitsky was born in Montreal and received his MD from McGill University. He completed his postgraduate training in surgery and urology in the Tufts, Harvard and McGill programs. His training in clinical and experimental transplantation was carried out with Dr. Tom Starzl in Denver and Dr. Kenneth Porter in London, UK. He joined the Department of Urology at Dalhousie University as an Assistant Professor and was subsequently appointed full professor in 1986.
Dr. Belitsky’s research included studies of immune cell traffic within the transplanted kidney, and effects of immunosuppressive drugs on modifying the vascular changes of chronic rejection. His more recent research has focused on optimal use of immunosuppression by more rational therapeutic drug monitoring.
Dr. Belitsky was Director of the Multi-Organ Transplant Program of what is now the Queen Elizabeth Health Sciences Centre in Halifax from 1985 - 1995, and again since 2001. He was instrumental in developing the first regional transplantation program in Canada, providing transplantation services in collaborative fashion with the four Atlantic Provinces of Canada. He currently is Chair of the Canadian Council for Donation and Transplantation and is a past president of the Canadian Society of Transplantation, the Canadian Urological Association and the Urologic Society for Transplantation and Vascular Surgery.