Maria B. Majella Doyle, M.D., M.B.A., F.A.C.S., is a Professor of Surgery, Mid-America Transplant and
Department of Surgery Distinguished Endowed Chair in Abdominal Transplant, Director of the HPB
Fellowship Program, and Director of Liver Transplant in the Division of General Surgery, Section of
Abdominal Transplantation, and Executive Vice-Chair of the Department of Surgery at Washington
University in St. Louis, as well as the Director of the Pediatric Transplant Program at St. Louis Children’s
Hospital and the Director of Faculty Development.
Dr. Majella Doyle received her Bachelor of Arts Degree at Trinity College in Dublin Ireland before
completion of medical school at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. She then completed her
surgical residency in the Irish General Surgical Training Program at the Royal College of Surgeons before
completing a Research Fellowship in the Department of Academic Surgery at Cork University in Cork,
Ireland. She completed a Clinical Fellowship in Abdominal Organ Transplant and HPB Surgery at
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri and was subsequently recruited as a
member of the Abdominal Organ Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery team. Her interests at the
university are focused on adult and pediatric hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery as well as liver and
kidney transplant. She focuses her clinical research interests on clinical outcomes, hepatocellular
carcinoma, liver transplantation, and donor management. Dr. Doyle has played an active role in US
national transplant surgery and HPB organizations. She is the current president of the Western Surgocal
Association and past president of the Americas Hepatopancreaticobiliary Association (AHPBA) . She is
also a councilor of the American Society of Transplant Surgery (ASTS). She has been a mentor for many
surgical trainees is on the executive council of the Fellowship Council governing HPB fellowship training
in the US. She is the author of over 140 peer reviewed publications and book chapters