Dr. Christian Larsen | Department of Surgery

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Christian P. Larsen, MD, DPhil

Academic Appointment
	Joseph Brown Whitehead Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine

Clinical Appointments
	Associate Vice President and Executive Director, The Emory Transplant Center, Emory

	Surgeon-in-Chief, Emory University Hospital

	Director of Surgical Services, Emory Healthcare

	Section Head, Surgery, The Emory Clinic

Telephone
	404.727.5800

Affiliation
	Emory University Hospital

Board Certification
	American Board of Surgery, 1992

	National Board of Medical Examiners, 1985

Medical School
	Emory University School of Medicine, Class of 1984

Postgraduate Training
	General Surgery Residency, Emory, 1985-1988, 1990-1991

	Livingston Surgical Research Fellow, Nuffield Department of Surgery, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 1988-1990

	PhD, Transplantation Immunology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 1990

	Fellow in Transplantation Surgery, Emory, 1991-1993

Honors and Awards
	Emory School of Medicine Dean's Distinguished Faculty Lecture and Award, 2009

	Thomas E. Starzl Prize in Surgery and Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, 2007

	TTS-Roche Award for Excellence in Translational Research, Transplantation Society, 2006

	Roche Basic Science Established Investigator Award, American Society of Transplantation, 2004

	Listed Among Emory's Distinguished Faculty for 2002-2003

	Finalist, Healthcare Hero Award, Atlanta Business Chronicle, 2003

	Dean's Clinical Investigator Award, Emory University School of Medicine, 2002-2003

	Emory University Great Teacher's Lecture, 2002

	Dean's Clinical Investigator Award, Emory University School of Medicine, 1999-2000

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

	Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 1992-1994

	Overseas Research Studentship, University of Oxford, 1988-1990

	Henry Goodger Scholarship, University of Oxford, 1988-1990

	British-American Research Fellowship of the American Heart Association, 1989-1990

	Acting Clinical Lecturer in Surgery, University of Oxford, 1988-1989

	Magna Cum Laude Graduate, Emory University School of Medicine, 1984

	Alpha Omega Alpha, 1983

	Phi Beta Kappa, 1979

Current Organizational Memberships
	American College of Surgeons, Fellow

	American Association of Immunologists

	American Diabetes Association

	American Society of Transplantation

	American Society of Transplant Surgeons

	American Society for the Advancement of Science

	Georgia Transplant Foundation, Inc., Board of Directors

	Society of Clinical Surgery

	The Society of University Surgeons

	The Transplantation Society

	The National Kidney Foundation

	International Pancreas and Islet Transplant Association

	Chair, Steering Committee, NIH Non-Human Primate Tolerance Network

	Mayo Clinic Scientific Advisory Board, NIH Xenotransplantation Research Consortium

	NIH Clinical Islet Transplant Consortium Steering Committee

Clinical Specialties
	Islet, kidney and pancreatic transplantation

Research Interests
	Investigation of the fundamental mechanisms involved in the T cell response to transplant tissues, specifically the role of costimulatory pathways in T cell activation.

	Studying the mechanisms involved in immunologic tolerance to self and transplanted tissues.

	Developing approaches to allow successful transplantation of allogeneic or xenogeneic islets for the treatment of type 1 diabetes.

Year Joined Emory as a Faculty Member
	1991