Francisco Badosa, MD
Born in Barcelona, Spain, Francisco Badosa graduated from Barcelona University School of Medicine in 1963, and after completing a two-year surgical internship, he spent a year at the Beaujon Hospital in Paris.
From 1966 to 1971 Badosa was a surgical resident at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, and spent a year at the Lahey Clinic in Boston, MA, before returning home to Barcelona. In 1974 was appointed chief of Hepato-Biliary, Pancreatic and Endocrine surgery at Bellvitge Hospital, and in 1984 he became the Director of Liver Transplantation at that institution .
In 1988, Dr. Badosa was recruited by Dr. Aaron Bannett to expand the existing kidney transplant program into a multi-organ program at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA. Badosa saw the pancreas transplant program begin at Einstein in 1988, and the liver program in 1991, and in 1994, he became the director of the Kidney and Pancreas Transplant there. In 2000 moved to the Lankenau Hospital as its Kidney Transplant Director and remained there until retiring in July of 2009.
