Overview

Dr. Clifton completed his general surgery training at the University of California, San Francisco, where he also did two years of basic science and clinical research in the Fetal Treatment Center, and completed his pediatric surgery fellowship at Emory. He has interests in surgical oncology, complex hepatobiliary surgery, clinical outcomes research, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation he served as surgical director of ECMO at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta from 2011-2019.

Dr. Clifton is currently co-PI of a study evaluating the accuracy of MRI guided laparoscopic pull-through for imperforate anus, and the surgeon of record for an investigation of the infusion of liver cell suspension in children with urea cycle disorders. Dr. Clifton is the institutional surgical representative at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta for the Childhood Liver Disease and Research Education Network (ChiLDREN), which studies biliary atresia as well as a host of other childhood liver pathologies, and is the North American representative of the International Pediatric Endosurgery Group.

Academic Appointment

• Professor of Surgery, Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
• Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
• Chief, Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
• Program Director, Pediatric Surgery Residency & Clinical Research Fellowship, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine

Education

Research