Dr. Collin Weber, Division of General and GI Surgery, Dept. of Surgery, Emory SOM

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Collin J. Weber, MD

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Academic Appointments

		William C. McGarity Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
		Vice Chairman, Clinical Affairs, Department of Surgery, Emory

Research Appointments

		Director, Elizabeth Brooke Gottlich Diabetes Research and Islet Transplant Laboratory, Emory University
		Co-Principal Investigator, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) Center for Islet Transplantation of Emory University

Telephone

		(Academic) 404.727.0084
		(Patient Care) 404.778.4733

Location of Practice

		Inpatient: Emory University Hospital
		Outpatient: The Emory Clinic

Medical School

College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, Class of 1971

General Surgery Residency

Department of Surgery, Columbia University, and College of Physicians and Surgeons, Surgical Service, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, 1972-1978

Fellowship/Advanced Training

Doctor of Medical Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, and NIH Postdoctoral Research Trainee in Surgery, Department of Surgery, Columbia University, 1973-1978

Board Certification

American Board of Surgery, originally certified 1979, recertified 1999; Added qualifications in Surgical Critical Care, 1990

Medical License

Georgia

Honors and Awards

		First Annual Arthur Blakemore Prize for Surgical Research, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, June, 1978
		NIH Research Career Development Award, #1 KO4 AM00806, September 5, 1980-August 31, 1985
		Golden-Lamport Award for Excellence in Clinical Research, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, May, 1985

Current Organizational Memberships

		American College of Surgeons, Fellow
		The Transplantation Society (International)
		The Association for Academic Surgery
		International Pancreas and Islet Transplant Association
		Society of University Surgeons
		New York Surgical Society
		Society of University Surgeons
		American Association of Endocrine Surgeons
		International Association of Endocrine Surgeons
		Societe International de Chirurgie
		Cell Transplant Society (founding member)
		Atlanta Surgical Society
		American Surgical Association
		Georgia Surgical Society
		Medical Association of Georgia
		DeKalb Medical Society
		Southern Surgical Association

Clinical Interests

		Adrenal masses
		Colorectal surgery
		Endocrinology surgery
		Gallbladder surgery
		Gastrointestinal surgery
		Hernia
		Pancreatic surgery
		Parathyroid surgery
		Rectal surgery
		Thyroid surgery

Research Interests

		Developing techniques for safe and durable pancreatic islet transplantation for patients with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, the focus being the use of xenogeneic tissues as sources of donor islets and microencapsulation plus selective immune modulation of hosts to accomplish cross species islet graft survival.

		Investigating the causes and functional characteristics of human parathyroid tumors by examining secreted products of human parathyroid tumors including neuropeptides and cytokines and analyzing replication of parathyroid tumors of differing histopathologies.

Year Joined Emory as a Faculty Member

1992

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