Dr. Mike Hughes discusses innovative medical care of chronic pancreatitis with ground-breaking work on auto-islet cell transplantation. He covers differences in auto vs. allo transplantation, indications of transplantation, evaluation of prospective transplant patients, peri-operative and outpatient management, and observed outcomes post-surgery. The lecture spends time reviewing several ongoing research projects at University of Louisville  by several labs researching facets of this topic.