Dr. Linda Cendales, Division of Plastic Surgery, Dept. of Surgery, Emory SOM

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Linda C. Cendales , MD

Faculty Appointment

Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine

Clinical Appointment

Director, Composite Tissue Transplantation and the Laboratory of Microsurgery, Emory Transplant Center

Telephone

404.727.1731

Affiliations

Education

		MD, class of 1992, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana at Xochimilco Center, Mexico

		Residency in General Surgery, Hospital General "Dr. Manuel Gea Gonzalez," Mexico City, Mexico, 1993-1996

		Fellowship in Hand and Microsurgery, National Institute for Orthopaedics, Mexico City, Mexico, 1996

		Research Fellowship in Hand and Microsurgery, Christine M. Kleinert Institute, Louisville, KY, 1997

		Clinical Fellowship in Hand and Microsurgery, Christine M. Kleinert Institute, 1997-1999

		Senior Fellowship in Hand and Microsurgery, Christine M. Kleinert Institute, 1999-2001

		Fellowship in Transplantation Surgery, Transplantation and Autoimmunity Branch; National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases; National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 2001-2004

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

Honors and Awards

		Clinical Research Center Bench to Bedside Award, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 2004

		Poster of Distinction, American Transplant Congress, Boston, MA, 2004

		Young Investigator Award, American Transplant Congress, Washington, DC, 2002 and 2003

		Fujisawa Young Investigator Award, 2002

Current Organizational Memberships

		The Transplantation Society
		The American Society of Transplantation
		American Society of Transplant Surgeons
		Honorary Member, Colombian Society of Plastic Surgery
		Honorary Member, American Association for Hand Surgery

Clinical Interests

		Hand and microsurgery
		Transplant surgery
		Composite Tissue Transplantation

Research Interests

		Composite tissue allotransplantation (CTA) (the vascularized transplantation of multiple tissues such as skin, muscle, bone, nerve, and tendon as a functional unit)

		Outcomes in reconstructive surgery

		Processes and interactions involved in the immunologic response to transplanted tissues

Year Joined Emory as a Faculty Member

2007