Faculty Profile
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Stuart J. Knechtle, MD
– Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
– Carlos and Marguerite Mason Chair of Surgery for Liver Transplantation, Emory University School of Medicine and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Professor of Pediatrics
– Chief, Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
– Clinical Director, Emory Transplant Center
– Director, Liver Transplantation, Emory University Hospital
– Chief, Liver Transplant Surgery, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
– Chief, Transplant Services, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Telephone: 404.712.9910
Fax: 404.727.3660
E-mail: stuart.knechtle@emoryhealthcare.org
Certification: American Board of Surgery
Year Joined Emory as a Faculty Member: 2008
Prior to joining Emory, Dr. Knechtle was the director of liver transplantation and transplant clinical trials at the University of Wisconsin, where he operated an NIH-funded research lab for 17 years. He led a team that performed Wisconsin's first liver transplant from a living donor and the state's first combined liver/pancreas transplant. Dr. Knechtle is expanding Emory's liver transplant program by collaborating with colleagues in the departments of medicine, radiology, anesthesia, and surgery. In addition to his other Emory appointments, he was named chief of pediatric liver transplant surgery at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston in 2010. In October 2011, he directed the first living donor, parent-to-child liver transplant at Children's since 2006. In July 2011, he led the surgical team that performed the liver and kidney portions of Georgia's first triple organ transplant at Emory. Dr. Knechtle's research, encompassing human clinical trials and non-human primate models, focuses on the immunologic mechanisms of transplant rejection and immunologic tolerance.
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Affiliations
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Emory University Hospital
- Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston
Medical School
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Cornell University Medical College, Class of 1982
Postgraduate Training
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General Surgery Internship and Residency, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 1982-1989
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Research Fellowship, Transplantation Immunology, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, 1984-1986
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Transplantation Fellowship, Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin Hospital, Madison, WI, 1989-1991
Honors and Awards
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Upjohn Award for Outstanding Paper in Transplantation Research by a Young Investigator, American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS), 1986
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Philip Caves Award for Outstanding Paper in Transplantation Research by a Young Investigator, International Society of Heart Transplantation, 1986
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Sandoz Fellowship, American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 1989-1991
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American College of Surgeons Faculty Fellowship, 1992-1994
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ASTS Roche Presidential Travel Award, 1997
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James IV Association of Surgeons Traveling Fellow, 1999
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Ray D. Owen Professor of Transplantation, University of Wisconsin, 2005
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Senior Achievement Award in Clinical Transplantation, American Society of Transplantation, 2008
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Atlanta's Top Doctors, Atlanta Magazine, 2010, 2011, 2012
Current Editorships
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Editorial Board, Transplantation
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Editorial Board, Transplant Immunology
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Co-Editor in Chief, Transplantation Reviews
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Editorial Board, Annals of Surgery
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Editorial Board, Liver Transplantation
Current Organizational Memberships
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American College of Surgeons, Fellow
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The Transplantation Society
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Association for Academic Surgery
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American Transplant Congress: Abstract Review Committee
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American Society of Transplant Surgeons
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American Society of Transplantation
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Immune Tolerance Network (ITN): Steering Committee
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Madison Surgical Society
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Society of University Surgeons
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Wisconsin Surgical Society
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Central Surgical Association
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American Association of Immunologists
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American Chapter of the International Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Association
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American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
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Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
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American Surgical Association
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Society of Clinical Surgery
Clinical Specialties
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Liver, kidney and pancreatic transplantation
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Surgery of the liver
Research Focus
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Immunologic mechanisms of transplant rejection and immunologic tolerance
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Strategies and mechanisms of tolerance including both depleting agents and costimulation blockade
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Immunologic monitoring of transplant patients to detect transplant rejection and overimmunosuppression
