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William Kitchens Jr

  • Department of Surgery
    Associate Professor
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Overview

After graduating from Harvard Medical School with honors, Dr. Kitchens continued his general surgical training at Massachusetts General Hospital. During his research sabbatical from residency, he moved back to his hometown of Atlanta to successfully pursue a PhD in transplant immunology at Emory University under the guidance of Mandy Ford, PhD, and Christian Larsen, MD, DPhil. He finished his surgical training at MGH, then returned to Emory to complete a clinical fellowship in abdominal transplant surgery.

Throughout his training years, Dr. Kitchens received a variety of awards recognizing the quality of his research efforts, including three consecutive Young Investigator Awards from the American Transplant Congress and two Young Innovator Awards at Annual Scientific Exchange meetings of the American Society of Transplantation. He was also awarded the highest research awards offered for surgical residents and transplant fellows by the American Society of Transplant Surgeons.

In 2018, Dr. Kitchens led the surgical team that performed the first liver transplant from an HIV-positive deceased donor to an HIV-positive recipient in the state of Georgia and one of the first in the Southeast.

Academic Appointment

  • Associate Professor, Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine

Education

Degrees

  • MD from Harvard Medical School

Research

Publications

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