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Dr. Linda Cendales
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Linda C. Cendales, MD

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Faculty Appointment
green arrow Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Division of Transplantation (dual appointment), Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine

Clinical Appointment
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Director, Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation and the Laboratory of Microsurgery, Emory Transplant Center


Telephone
green arrow 404.727.1731

Affiliations
green arrow Emory University Hospital
green arrow Grady Memorial Hospital
green arrow Atlanta VA Medical Center

Education
green arrow MD, class of 1992, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana at Xochimilco Center, Mexico
green arrow Residency in General Surgery, Hospital General "Dr. Manuel
Gea Gonzalez," Mexico City, Mexico, 1993-1996
green arrow Fellowship in Hand and Microsurgery, National Institute for Orthopaedics, Mexico City, Mexico, 1996
green arrow Research Fellowship in Hand and Microsurgery, Christine M. Kleinert Institute, Louisville, KY, 1997
green arrow Clinical Fellowship in Hand and Microsurgery, Christine M. Kleinert
Institute, 1997-1999
green arrow Senior Fellowship in Hand and Microsurgery, Christine M. Kleinert Institute, 1999-2001
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Fellowship in Transplantation Surgery, Transplantation and Autoimmunity Branch; National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases; National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 2001-2004

green arrow Senior Clinical Fellowship, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 2004-2006

Honors and Awards
green arrow KL2-Mentored Clinical and Translational Research Scholars Program Award, 2009
green arrow Astellas Faculty Development Award, American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 2008
green arrow Clinical Research Center Bench to Bedside Award, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 2004
green arrow Poster of Distinction, American Transplant Congress, Boston, MA, 2004
green arrow Young Investigator Award, American Transplant Congress, Washington, DC, 2002 and 2003
green arrow Fujisawa Young Investigator Award, 2002

Current Organizational Memberships
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The Transplantation Society

green arrow The American Society of Transplantation
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Chair, Ad Hoc Composite Tissue Allotransplantation Committee; Standards on Organ Transplantation Committee; American Society of Transplant Surgeons

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Colombian Society of Plastic Surgery

green arrow American Association for Hand Surgery
green arrow Founding Member, International Society of Hand and Composite Tissue Allotransplantation

Clinical Interests
green arrow Hand and microsurgery
green arrow Transplant surgery
green arrow Composite Tissue Transplantation

Research Interests
green arrow Composite tissue allotransplantation (CTA) (the vascularized transplantation of multiple tissues such as skin, muscle, bone, nerve, and tendon as a functional unit)
green arrow Outcomes in reconstructive surgery
green arrow Processes and interactions involved in the immunologic response to transplanted tissues

Year Joined Emory as a Faculty Member
green arrow 2007

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