Author: Steven A. Webber

Allan D. Kirk is a Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics and a practicing transplant surgeon and physician at Emory University Hospital and Children”s Healthcare of Atlanta. Dr. Kirk was the inaugural Chief of the NIH intramural Transplantation Branch and he has been Principal Investigator (PI) for multiple past and ongoing clinical trials. Dr. Kirk”s bibliography contains over 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts and he is Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Transplantation. Joren C. Madsen is the founding Director of the MGH Transplant Center, which encompasses kidney, liver, lung, heart, pancreas and small bowel transplantation and is Co-Director of the Transplantation Biology Research Center, a multi-disciplinary group of scientists translating discoveries in basic immunology into clinical protocols. Dr. Madsen has authored more than 150 publications and served on the editorial boards of Transplantation, the American Journal of Transplantation, and the Annals of Thoracic Surgery. In 2009, Dr. Madsen became the first surgeon to be elected president of the American Society of Transplantation. Chris Larsen, MD, DPhil, became Dean of Emory University School of Medicine, Vice President for Health Center Integration for the Woodruff Health Sciences Center, and Chairman of the Board of The Emory Clinic in January 2013. An internationally recognized leader in transplant surgery and immunology, Larsen joined the Emory medical faculty in 1991 and was appointed Chair of Surgery in 2009. He became founding director of the Emory Transplant Center (ETC) in 2001, building and directing one of the foremost research and clinical transplantation programs in the world.