Mikel Prieto
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
Dr. Mikel Prieto is a Staff Consultant in the Division of Transplantation Surgery at Mayo Clinic and serves as the Surgical Director of both the Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program and Pediatric Kidney Transplantation. He is a native of Spain, where he graduated from the Medical School of the University of the Basque Country/ Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea in 1984. He went on to do a Transplant Research Fellowship at the University of Minnesota, followed by a fellowship at the Royal Liverpool Hospital in the UK. He completed a residency in General Surgery at Lahey Clinic in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1998. This was followed by a Transplant Surgery and Immunology Fellowship at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
In 1999, Dr. Prieto joined Mayo Clinic as an Assistant Professor and Consultant in the Division of Transplantation Surgery. He is also very involved with affiliated organizations. At LifeSource, he has been the Chair of the Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Committee and is currently the Chair of the Clinical Policy Board. In addition to his appointments in Transplantation, he also served as the Medical Director of International Practice Operations for Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, until July 2015.
Dr. Prieto has special interests in kidney and pancreas transplantation in adults and children, living donation, laparoscopic donor nephrectomy, and kidney paired donation.
