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Dr. Stuart Knechtle
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Stuart J. Knechtle, MD
Academic Appointment
green arrow Professor of Surgery and Chief, Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine

Clinical Appointments
green arrow Clinical Director, Emory Transplant Center
green arrow Director, Liver Transplantation, Emory University Hospital

Telephone
green arrow 404.712.7833

Affiliation
green arrow Emory University Hospital

Board Certification
green arrow American Board of Surgery

Medical School
green arrow Cornell University Medical College, Class of 1982

Postgraduate Training
green arrow General Surgery Internship and Residency, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 1982-1989
green arrow Research Fellowship, Transplantation Immunology, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, 1984-1986
green arrow Transplantation Fellowship, Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin Hospital, Madison, WI, 1989-1991

Honors and Awards
green arrow Upjohn Award for Outstanding Paper in Transplantation Research by a Young Investigator, American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS), 1986
green arrow Philip Caves Award for Outstanding Paper in Transplantation Research by a Young Investigator, International Society of Heart Transplantation, 1986
green arrow Sandoz Fellowship, American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 1989-1991
green arrow American College of Surgeons Faculty Fellowship, 1992-1994
green arrow ASTS Roche Presidential Travel Award, 1997
green arrow James IV Association of Surgeons Traveling Fellow, 1999
green arrow Ray D. Owen Professor of Transplantation, University of Wisconsin, 2005
green arrow Senior Achievement Award in Clinical Transplantation, American Society of Transplantation, 2008

Current Editorial Boards
green arrow Transplantation
green arrow Transplant Immunology
green arrow Transplantation Reviews (Co-Editor in Chief)
green arrow Annals of Surgery

Current Organizational Memberships
green arrow American College of Surgeons, Fellow
green arrow The Transplantation Society
green arrow Association for Academic Surgery
green arrow American Transplant Congress, Abstract Review Committee
green arrow American Society of Transplant Surgeons
green arrow American Society of Transplantation
green arrow Immune Tolerance Network (ITN), Steering Committee
green arrow Madison Surgical Society
green arrow Society of University Surgeons
green arrow Wisconsin Surgical Society
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NIH/NIAID Allergy, Immunology and Transplantation Research Committee

green arrow Central Surgical Association
green arrow American Association of Immunologists
green arrow American Chapter of the International Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Association
green arrow American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
green arrow Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
green arrow American Surgical Association
green arrow Society of Clinical Surgery

Clinical Specialties
green arrow Liver, kidney and pancreatic transplantation
green arrow Surgery of the liver

Research Focus
green arrow The immunologic mechanisms of transplant rejection and immunologic tolerance

Year Joined Emory as a Faculty Member
green arrow 2008

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