Livingston Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine

Co-Director, Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Program, Emory University Hospital

Director, Kidney Transplant Program, Department of Surgery, Emory

Affiliate Scientist, Division of Pathobiology and Immunobiology, Yerkes Primate Research Center

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Emory University Hospital

American Board of Surgery, 1989, recertified 1999

MD, Emory University School of Medicine, 1982

PhD, Transplantation Immunology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 1991

General Surgery Residency, Emory, 1982-1984, 1985-1988

Research Fellow in Portal Hypertension, Emory, 1984-1985

Livingston Surgical Research Fellow, Nuffield Department of Surgery, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 1988-1991

TTS-Roche Award for Excellence in Translational Science, July 26, 2006

Alpha Omega Alpha, National Honor Medical Society, Emory University, 2004

Finalist, Healthcare Heroes for 2003, Atlanta Business Chronicle

Dean’s Clinical Investigator Award, Emory University School of Medicine, 2002-03, 1999-2000

NIH Basic Science Award, American Society of Transplant Physicians, May 1997

Devorguilla Scholar, Doctor of Philosophy Student, Balliol College, 1989-1991

Overseas Research Studentship, University of Oxford, 1989-1991

British-American Research Fellowship of the American Heart Association and the British Heart Foundation, 1990-1991

Acting Clinical Lecturer in Surgery, University of Oxford, 1989-1991

American Journal of Transplantation, Associate Editor

Graft, Editorial Board

American College of Surgeons, Fellow

LifeLink Foundation, Board of Governors, Executive Committee, 2000-present

LifeLink of Georgia, Associate Medical Director, 2000-present

National Kidney Foundation of Georgia, Medical Advisory Board, 2000-present

American Society of Transplant Surgeons, Scientific Studies Committee, 1996-present

American Association of Immunologists

American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Society of Transplantation

SYMPHONY Clinical Trial in Renal Transplantation, International Steering Committee, 2002-Present

United Network of Organ Sharing, Region 3 Representative, Kidney Pancreas Committee, July 2005-present

British Transplantation Society

The Society for University Surgeons

The Transplantation Society

Islet, kidney, and pancreatic transplantation

Live donor nephrectomy

Investigation of the critical factors for T cell activation and function and the development of novel strategies to block the rejection response with the ultimate goal of developing a clinically relevant strategy to induce permanent long-term tolerance to transplanted organs in humans.

The development and assessment of novel immunoregulatory strategies in rodent models and pertinent pre-clinical testing in non-human primates.

1991