Donald Dafoe

Donald Cameron Dafoe (born November 22, 1949) is an American transplant surgeon and research scientist active in California.

Biography Dafoe was born Donald Cameron Dafoe on November 22, 1949 to William Alfred Dafoe (1917–2014), a surgeon and physician, and Muriel Isabel Dafoe (; 1921–2012), a nurse. One of eight siblings, Dafoe is the elder brother of the actor Willem Dafoe.

He then attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he received his undergraduate degree in zoology

He became a transplant surgeon after training in surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and now works at University of California Irvine Medical Center in Orange, California, where he is chief of transplantation surgery. He previously worked at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was Director of the Pancreas Transplantation, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Center; Director of Surgical Education; and held the Eris M. Field Endowed Chair in Diabetes Research. He was previously medical director for the California Transplant Donor Network.

He has written over 160 peer-reviewed articles, and has been on the editorial board of Journal of Surgical Research, The Chimera, and Transplantation Science.

Personal life Dafoe has five children, and was previously married to the vascular surgeon Rhoda F. Leichter and Sahara Dafoe. Dafoe is the brother-in-law of Giada Colagrande.