Thomas G. Heffron, MD

PDF of Dr. Heffron's CV

Academic Appointments

• Associate Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine

Clinical Appointments

• Director of Pediatric and Living Related Liver Transplantation, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston

Telephone
404.727.3599

Affiliations

• Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston
• Emory University Hospital

Board Certification

• National Board of Medical Examiners, 1983
• American Board of Surgery, 1989
• Georgia Medical License, 1996
• American Board of Surgery, General Surgery Recertification, 1997

Medical School
Class of 1982, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE

Postgraduate Training

• General Surgery Residency, Creighton University Affiliated Hospitals, Omaha, NE, 1982-1987
• Clinical Fellowship in Hepatobiliary Surgery, Renal, Pancreas, and Liver Transplantation, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, 1987-1990

Honors and Awards

• Finalist, Champions in the Field of Medicine category, Atlanta Business Chronicle's 2007 Health-Care Heroes awards
• Finalist, Physician Hero category, Atlanta Business Chronicle's 2006 Health-Care Heroes awards
• The Pediatric Liver Transplantation Program at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, led by Dr. Heffron, was a finalist in the Innovations category of the annual Health-Care Heroes awards distributed by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, 2004
• Abstract Reviewer for the XX International Congress of The Transplantation Society (held 9/5-9/10/04, Vienna)
• First Recipient, Georgia Chapter of the American Liver Foundation's Inaugural Salute to Excellence Tribute Dinner, Sheraton Colony Hotel, Atlanta, GA, 11/15/02

Current Organizational Memberships

• Living Related Liver Transplantation, Program Project Grant Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung Medical College, Taiwan, External Advisory Committee Member Living Related Transplant Consultant
• American College of Surgeons, Fellow
• American Liver Foundation, Medical Advisory Committee
• Special Risk International Review Board
• American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, Surgery and Liver Transplantation Committee
• American Liver Surgery Group
• National Magazine Editorial/Advisory Board for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston
• OTTR Software, HKS Clinical Advisory Panel
• SPLIT (Studies in Pediatric Liver Transplantation) Contribution
• American Society of Transplant Surgeons
• European Society for Organ Transplantation
• International Hepato-Pancreato Biliary Association
• Metropolitan Omaha Medical Society
• Society of Critical Care Medicine
• Southwestern Surgical Congress
• United Network for Organ Sharing, Region Three Liver Board Member
• World Association of Hepatico-Pancreatico-Biliary Surgery
• Omaha Mid-West Clinical Society
• Georgia Surgical Society
• Transplantation Society
• International Liver Transplantation Society
• International Pediatric Transplant Association

Clinical and Research Interests

• Pediatric and adult living related liver transplantation
• Surgery of the liver for tumor and portal hypertension
• General surgery

Year Joined Emory as a Faculty Member
1996