Kidney Transplantation

Stuart Knechtle, M.D. is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Surgery and Executive Director of the Duke Transplant Center. He trained in surgery at Duke and in transplant surgery at the University of Wisconsin, Madison where he was appointed as the first Ray D. Owen Professor of Transplantation. He moved to Emory University in 2008 as the Carlos and Marguerite Mason Professor of Liver Transplantation. In 2015 he returned to Duke to establish the Duke Transplant Center and serve as its Executive Director. He holds the William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair in Surgery at Duke. His clinical practice includes kidney, pancreas, and liver transplantation. He directs translational research in transplant immunology and currently serves as Principal Investigator of two NIH-funded clinical trials addressing the challenges of antibody-mediated injury of kidney transplants. He has published over 400 peer reviewed papers, over 60 book chapters, edited four textbooks, and serves on several editorial boards including Annals of Surgery.

Lorna Marson is Professor of Transplant Surgery at the University of Edinburgh, and Honorary Consultant Surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Lorna held a Clinician Scientist Award from the Academy of Medical Sciences/ Health Foundation from 2003-2008, and continues to work in clinically relevant research in renal transplantation, with translation of a novel agent from bench to bedside. Lorna is Past President of the British Transplantation Society, elected Board member of the European Kidney Transplant Association, and Co-Director of the UK Organ Donation and Transplantation Research Network. She is Associate Medical Director for Research and Development, Organ and Tissues Donation and Transplantation, NHS Blood and Transplant.