Dr. David Vega, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Dept. of Surgery, Emory SOM

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J. David Vega, MD


Faculty Appointment
	Professor of Surgery and McKelvey Fellow in Lung Transplantation, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine

Clinical Appointments
	Surgical Director, Heart Transplant Program, Emory University Hospital
	Chief, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Atlanta VA Medical Center

Telephone
	404.778.5289

Board Certification
	American Board of Surgery
	American Board of Thoracic Surgery

Medical School
	University of Michigan, Class of 1986

Postgraduate Training
	General Surgery Internship (1986-1987) and General Surgery Residency (1987-1988, 1990-1993), University of Texas Health Science Center

	Research Fellowship in Cardiothoracic Surgery (1988-1990), Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Residency (1993-1995), Texas Heart Institute

	Fellowship in Cardiopulmonary Transplantation, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (1995-1996)

Honors and Awards
	Woodruff Fund Clinical Teaching Support Award in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Emory, September 2002

	The George P. Waldron Award, Outstanding General Surgery Chief Resident, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, 1993

Current Organizational Memberships
	American College of Surgeons: Fellow; Advisory Council for Cardiothoracic Surgery (American Society of Transplant Surgeons representative)

	American Society of Transplant Surgeons, Co-Chair, Thoracic Organ Transplantation Committee

	American Association for Thoracic Surgery

	LifeLink Foundation, Board of Governors

	Society of Thoracic Surgeons, Clinical Education Resource Group

	United Network for Organ Sharing, OPTN/UNOS Board of Directors as Heart Transplant Representative

	Health Resources and Service Administration, Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation

	American College of Chest Physicians

	American Society for Artificial Internal Organs

	Denton A. Cooley Cardiovascular Surgical Society, Executive Committee

	International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation

Clinical Interests
	Cardiac transplantation

	Cardiopulmonary transplantation

	Heart failure/heart transplantation

	Lung transplantation

Year Joined Emory as a Faculty Member
	1996