Dr. Larry Melton

Dr. Melton is currently a transplant nephrologist at RWJ Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, New Jersey. He was recently a transplant nephrologist at Maine Medical Center, previously the Medical Director of Organ Transplant at Hackensack UMC and formerly the Medical Director of Kidney/Pancreas transplant at the Simmons transplant Institute, Baylor Scott and White Medical Center in Dallas, TX. His interests are kidney and pancreas transplantation, combined liver/kidney transplantation and kidney function in liver disease. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Nephrology and Critical Care Medicine. He attended Baylor University followed by graduate work at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Dallas where he earned a PhD. He attended medical school at the UT Health Long School of Medicine in San Antonio and did his residency at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. His nephrology and transplant training were done at the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston, MA and he remained on the faculty at Harvard Medical School for a year after completion of his training. Following that he took a position with Dallas Nephrology Associates, worked with the transplant program at Baylor University Medical Center and was a senior member of Dallas Nephrology Associates. He is a former President of the Texas Transplantation Society, a former board member of the American Society of Transplantation and has served on numerous committees for the AST. He has co-authored multiple manuscripts and book chapters, given lectures to scientific and community gatherings and was the Co-Scientific Editor of Dialysis and Transplantation.

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