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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

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Selected Grants

Publications

Song, M., K. Samy, Q. Gao, R. P. Davis, F. Leopard, Z. Fitch, C. Bennett, G. R. Devi, B. H. Collins, and A. D. Kirk. “CD46 Transgene Modification and Thrombosis in Neonatal Porcine Islet Xenotransplantation.” In American Journal of Transplantation, 19:430–430. WILEY, 2019.

Scholars@Duke

Schmitz, R., M. S. Mulvihill, P. M. Schroder, Z. Fitch, F. Leopardi, D. Magnani, J. Kwun, S. J. Knechtle, and A. D. Kirk. “Depletional Induction Therapy in Non-Human Primates - Preclinical Modeling of Polyclonal Depletion with Rhesus-Specific ATG.” In American Journal of Transplantation, 19:597–597. WILEY, 2019.

Scholars@Duke

Klintmalm, Goran B., Bruce Kaplan, and Allan D. Kirk. “FDA jeopardizes the lives of lung transplant recipients and in the process severely increases the cost to develop new immunosuppression.” Am J Transplant 19, no. 4 (April 2019): 971–72. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajt.15215.

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Fitch, Z. W., Q. Gao, R. P. Davis, M. S. Mulvihill, M. Song, F. Leopardi, M. Ribeiro, et al. “Islet Xenotransplantation: A Quest for Clinically Available Immunosuppression Regimens.” In American Journal of Transplantation, 19:473–74. WILEY, 2019.

Scholars@Duke

Chambers, E. T., O. Martinez, M. Robien, C. Chan, R. Ettenger, P. Grimm, H. Lee, et al. “NK Cells Are Associated with Alloimmune Failure in Transplanted Children.” In American Journal of Transplantation, 19:339–339. WILEY, 2019.

Scholars@Duke

Lubkin, David T., Muath Bishawi, Andrew S. Barbas, Todd V. Brennan, and Allan D. Kirk. “Extracellular Mitochondrial DNA and N-Formyl Peptides in Trauma and Critical Illness: A Systematic Review.” Crit Care Med 46, no. 12 (December 2018): 2018–28. https://doi.org/10.1097/CCM.0000000000003381.

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Darrabie, Marcus D., Jennifer Cheeseman, Alexander T. Limkakeng, Joseph Borawski, Bruce A. Sullenger, Eric A. Elster, Allan D. Kirk, and Jaewoo Lee. “Toll-like receptor activation as a biomarker in traumatically injured patients.” J Surg Res 231 (November 2018): 270–77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2018.05.059.

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Cendales, Linda C., David S. Ruch, Adela R. Cardones, Guy Potter, Joshua Dooley, Daniel Dore, Jonah Orr, et al. “De novo belatacept in clinical vascularized composite allotransplantation.” Am J Transplant 18, no. 7 (July 2018): 1804–9. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajt.14910.

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