Donald Dafoe

Donald Cameron Dafoe (born 1949) is an American transplant surgeon and research scientist active in California. Raised in Appleton, Wisconsin, he took his undergraduate degree in zoology and his medical degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, then trained in surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He is now chief of transplantation surgery at the University of California Irvine Medical Center. Earlier he worked at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he directed the pancreas transplantation program and the kidney and pancreas transplant center, directed surgical education and held an endowed chair in diabetes research, and he served as medical director of the California Transplant Donor Network. He has written more than 160 peer-reviewed articles and has served on the editorial boards of Transplantation Science and the Journal of Surgical Research. He is the elder brother of the actor Willem Dafoe.