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

Associate Director, Emory Transplant Center

Director, Kidney Transplant Program, Department of Surgery, Emory

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

404.727.8464

Emory University Hospital

American Board of Surgery

MD, Emory University School of Medicine, 1982

DPhil, 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

Associate Editor, American Journal of Transplantation

Editorial Board, Graft

Fellow, American College of Surgeons

Board of Governors, Executive Committee, LifeLink Foundation

Associate Medical Director, LifeLink of Georgia

Medical Advisory Board, Update Planning Committee, Faculty Advisory Council, National Kidney Foundation of Georgia

Scientific Studies Committee, Clinical Trials Steering Committee, American Society of Transplant Surgeons

American Association of Immunologists

American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Society of Transplantation

International Steering Committee, SYMPHONY Clinical Trial in Renal Transplantation

Region 3 Representative, Kidney Pancreas Committee, United Network of Organ Sharing

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