Dicken Ko

About Dicken Ko

Dicken S. C. Ko, BSc, MD, FRCSC, FACS, is a Professor of Surgery, Urologic, and Transplant Surgeon at Rhode Island Hospital, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.Dr. Ko is also an Adjunct Professor of Urology at Tufts University School of Medicine and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He has worked at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School for 22 years. He was Director of Regional Urology for MGH, overseeing affiliate sites, integrating clinical practices, sharing academic and community practices, developing lean practice programs, and exploring regional growth opportunities. Before joining the Department of Urology full-time, Dr. Ko worked at MGH as a multi-organ transplant surgeon in the Departments of Surgery and Pediatric Surgery, where he was the Surgical Director of the Renal Transplant Program. In 2015, Dr. Ko was awarded the inaugural W. Scott McDougal Prize for Teaching and Mentoring in the Department of Urology.Dr. Ko was instrumental in identifying, coordinating, and facilitating new developments for areas of unmet needs in urology. Dr. Ko is a pioneering surgeon and co-leader of the team that performed the first successful genitourinary vascularized composite allograft (penile) transplant in the USA. His groundbreaking innovation has been featured in the New York Times, Time Magazine, CNN, and over many media outlets worldwide. Dr. Ko served on national committees and boards, including the UNOS kidney and pancreas committee, Harvard Medical School committees, and the American Board of Urology, where he is an examiner. His scholarly activities focus on tolerance models of transplantation, urologic outcomes research, and the economics of transplantation. Dr. Ko has over 75 publications in peer-reviewed journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of Urology, Transplantation, and the American Journal of Transplantation. He was the 28th President of the Urological Society for Transplantation and Renal Surgery.

Experience

1. Adjunct Professor of Urology

   Tufts University School Of Medicine

   Oct 2020 — Present · Boston, MA, US

Education

• University of Toronto

  Internship, General Surgery Residency Program

  1990 — 1991

• Queen's University

  Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), Medicine

  1986 — 1990

• The University of British Columbia

  Residency, Urology Residency Program

  1991 — 1995

• The University of British Columbia

  Bachelor of Science (B.Sc), Physiology and Biology

  1983 — 1986

• Harvard Medical School

  Fellowship, Transplant Surgery

  1995 — 1997