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Allan Douglas Kirk, MD, PhD

David C. Sabiston, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Surgery
Chair, Department of Surgery
Professor of Surgery
Professor in Pediatrics
Professor in the Department of Immunology
Division: 
Abdominal Transplant Surgery
Faculty Lab: 
Immune Management Laboratory
Program: 
Abdominal Transplant Surgery Fellowship
Duke Surgical Technique and Review (STAR) Course
General Surgery Residency Program
Campus Mail: DUMC 3704, Durham, NC 27710

I am a surgeon with interest in immune management of transplant recipients. I am particularly interested in therapies that influence T cell costimulation pathways and adjuvant therapies that facilitate costimulation blockade to prevent the rejection of transplanted organs without undue suppression of protective immunity. I am also interested in understanding how injury, such as that occurring during trauma or in elective surgery, influences immune responses and subsequent healing following injury.

Costimulation Blockade in Organ Transplantion

Allan D. Kirk, MD, PhD, Department of Surgery Chairman
David C. Sabiston, Jr. Professor of Surgery

Education and Training

  • Fellow, Multi Organ Transplantation, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1995 - 1997
  • Chief Resident, Surgery, Duke University, 1994 - 1995
  • Senior Resident, Surgery, Duke University, 1992 - 1994
  • Research Fellow, Surgery, Duke University, 1989 - 1992
  • Intern & Junior Resident, Surgery, Duke University, 1987 - 1989
  • Ph.D., Duke University, 1992
  • M.D., Duke University School of Medicine, 1987
  • B.S., Old Dominion University, 1983

In the News

Selected Grants

Publications

Aronson, Solomon, Sutton Murray, Gavin Martin, Jeanna Blitz, Timothy Crittenden, Mike E. Lipkin, Christopher R. Mantyh, et al. “Roadmap for Transforming Preoperative Assessment to Preoperative Optimization.” Anesth Analg 130, no. 4 (April 2020): 811–19. https://doi.org/10.1213/ANE.0000000000004571.

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Fitch, Z. W., M. Song, R. Schmitz, F. Leopardi, M. Ribeiro, A. Miller, G. Devi, B. Collins, X. Luo, and A. D. Kirk. “Splenectomy Impedes B Cell Infiltration Associated with Rejection of Neonatal Porcine Islet Xenografts.” In American Journal of Transplantation, 20:757–757, 2020.

Scholars@Duke

Moris, D. P., A. Atia, M. Rae, M. Song, L. Stempora, F. Leopardi, K. Williams, et al. “Th17 Cell Inhibition in a Costimulation Blockade Based Regimen for Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation Using A Non-Human Primate Model.” In American Journal of Transplantation, 20:537–537, 2020.

Scholars@Duke

David, E., M. Zhu, W. Parker, N. MacIver, A. D. Kirk, and E. T. Chambers. “The Effect of Undernutrition and Immunosuppression on Cytomegalovirus Specific T Cell Responses.” In American Journal of Transplantation, 20:749–749, 2020.

Scholars@Duke

David, E., M. Zhu, W. Parker, N. MacIver, A. D. Kirk, and E. T. Chambers. “Undernutrition and Hypoleptinemia Modulate Cytomegalovirus Infection.” In American Journal of Transplantation, 20:749–50, 2020.

Scholars@Duke

Devi, G. R., Z. Fitch, M. Song, M. Ribeiro, A. McGowan, X. Luo, B. H. Collins, and A. D. Kirk. “XIAP Enhances Xenoislet Survival: Novel Models to Evaluate Pretransplantation Gene Modifications.” In American Journal of Transplantation, 20:741–741, 2020.

Scholars@Duke

Corey, Kristin M., Joshua Helmkamp, Morgan Simons, Lesley Curtis, Keith Marsolo, Suresh Balu, Michael Gao, et al. “Assessing Quality of Surgical Real-World Data from an Automated Electronic Health Record Pipeline.” J Am Coll Surg 230, no. 3 (March 2020): 295-305.e12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2019.12.005.

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Xu, He, Aneesh K. Mehta, Qimeng Gao, Hui-Jie Lee, Ada Ghali, Antonio Guasch, and Allan D. Kirk. “B cell reconstitution following alemtuzumab induction under a belatacept-based maintenance regimen.” Am J Transplant 20, no. 3 (March 2020): 653–62. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajt.15639.

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Dente, Christopher John, Edda Styrmisdottir, Audrey Shi, Seth Schobel, Vivek Khatri, Benjamin K. Potter, Jonathan A. Forsberg, Timothy Buchman, Allan D. Kirk, and Eric Elster. “Driving biology: The effect of standardized wound management on wound biomarker profiles.” J Trauma Acute Care Surg 88, no. 3 (March 2020): 379–89. https://doi.org/10.1097/TA.0000000000002568.

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Blew, Kathryn H., Annabelle Chua, John Foreman, Rasheed Gbadegesin, Annette Jackson, Shashi Nagaraj, Rebecca Sadun, Del Wigfall, Allan D. Kirk, and Eileen T. Chambers. “Tailored use of belatacept in adolescent kidney transplantation.” Am J Transplant 20, no. 3 (March 2020): 884–88. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajt.15611.

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