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David A. Kooby, MD
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| Administrative Appointment |
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Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, Department
of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine |
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404.778.3805 |
| Board Certification |
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American
Board of Surgery |
| Medical School |
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Class of 1994, State University of New York, Downstate Medical College,
Brooklyn, New York |
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| Postgraduate Training |
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Junior Assistant Residency, MCP-Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, PA,
1995-1997 |
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Research Fellowship, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center,
New York, NY, 1997-1999 |
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Senior and Chief Residency, Vanderbilt University
Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 1999-2001 |
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Surgical Oncology Fellowship,
Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 2001-2003 |
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| Honors and Awards |
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National Service Research Award, United States Public Health Service, 1997-1999 |
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Joseph and Bonnie Graves Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching,
Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University, June 2001 |
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Vanderbilt University Student Curriculum Resident's Teaching Award,
2001 |
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Research Award, The Society of Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, 2003 |
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Georgia Cancer Coalition, Cancer Scholar Stipend, 2004 |
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Honored Clinical Professor, Emory University School of Medicine, Class of 2007 |
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Appointed to the update task force for the chapter on the staging of hepatobiliary malignancies for the 7th edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer's Cancer Staging Manual, 2007 |
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Elected to Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society, February 2008 |
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| Current Organizational Memberships |
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Associate, American
College of Surgeons |
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H. William Scott Jr. Society |
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Clinical Affairs Committee, Society of Surgical Oncology |
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Southeastern Surgical Association |
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American College of Surgeons Oncology Group |
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Atlanta Surgical Association |
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Georgia Surgical Association |
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Program Committee, Research Committee, American Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association |
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| Clinical Interests |
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Surgical treatment of tumors of the liver, bile ducts, pancreas, adrenal
glands, spleen, esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon and rectum |
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Surgical
therapy of melanoma and sarcoma |
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Laparoscopic tumor surgery |
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| Research Interests |
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Experimental therapeutics of cancers of the liver, pancreas and stomach |
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Clinical trials of gastrointestinal malignancies |
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Methods of reducing
blood product transfusion in patients undergoing surgery for cancer |
| Year Joined Emory as a Faculty
Member |
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2003 |
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