Faculty Profile
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Kevin W. McConnell, MD
– Assistant Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
Telephone: 404.712.8435
E-mail: kevin.w.mcconnell@emory.edu
Certification: American Board of Surgery
Year Joined Emory as a Faculty Member: 2011
Dr. McConnell's clinical duties will be divided between EUH's Acute and Critical Care Surgery Service and its Surgical Intensive Care Unit, the latter directed by Dr. Craig Coopersmith. When Dr. Coopersmith was still at the Washington University School of Medicine, Dr. McConnell did a surgical research fellowship in his lab from 2004-2007. Dr. McConnell earned his MD from the Indiana University School of Medicine in 2002; completed a general surgery residency in 2010 at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, during which he was recognized with a Resident of the Year Teaching Award; and completed a surgical critical care fellowship at Barnes in the summer of 2011.
Affiliations
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Critical Care Surgery Service, Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Emory University Hospital
- The Emory Clinic
Medical School
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Indiana University School of Medicine, 2002
Postgraduate Training
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General Surgery Internship and Residency, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO, 2002-2010
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Surgical Research Fellow, Washington University School of Medicine, 2004-2007
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Surgical Critical Care Fellowship, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University Medical Center, 2010-2011
Honors and Awards
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Resident of the Year Award for Teaching, Washington University School of Medicine, 2010
Current Organizational Memberships
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Society of Critical Care Medicine
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Shock Society
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Surgical Infection Society
Clinical Interests
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Surgical critical care
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Sepsis
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Multiple organ failure
Research Interests
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Apoptosis in the development of multiorgan failure and sepsis
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Sepsis immunology
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Critical illness
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Transplantation
