Leadership, Administration, and Faculty

Executive Director

Stuart Knecthle, MD
William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Surgery

Steering Committee

Barbara Alexander, MD
Professor of Medicine

Andrew Barbas, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery

Carl Berg, MD
Professor Emeritus of Medicine

Brandi Bottiger, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology

Linda Cendales, MD
Professor of Surgery

Eileen Chambers, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Adam Devore, MD, MHS
Associate Professor of Medicine

Matt Ellis, MD
Professor of Medicine

Matthew Hartwig, MD
Professor of Surgery

Chantal Howard, MSN, RN
Chief Nursing and Patient Care Services Officer, Duke University Hospital

Jean Kwun, DVM, PhD
Associate Professor in Surgery

Xunrong Luo, MD, PhD
Boyce Haller Distinguished Professor in Nephrology

Carmelo Milano, MD
Joseph W. and Dorothy W. Beard Distinguished Professor of Experimental Surgery

Scott Palmer, MD, MHS
Donald F. Fortin, MD Distinguished Professor of Medicine

Chet Patel, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine

Mihai Podgoreanu, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology

John Michael Reynolds, MD
Professor of Medicine

Jacob Schroder, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery

Debra Sudan, MD
Professor of Surgery

Scott Palmer, MD, MPH
Vice Chair for Research and 
Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine)

Xunrong Luo, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine (Nephrology)

Jean Kwun, PhD, DVM
Associate Professor in Surgery (Abdominal Transplant Surgery)

Barbara Alexander, MD
Professor of Medicine

Laura Barisoni, MD
Professor of Pathology

Dawn Bowles, PhD
Assistant Professor in Surgery

Cliburn Chan, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics

Christopher Holley, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine

Annette Jackson, PhD
Associate Professor in Surgery

Micah McClain, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine

Elizabeth Pavlisko, MD
Professor of Pathology

Mari Shinohara, PhD
Professor of Integrative Immunobiology

Laurie Snyder, MD, MHS
Professor of Medicine

Debra Sudan, MD
Professor of Surgery

Jennifer Byrns, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist, Abdominal Transplant

Amanda Hulbert, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist, Lung Transplant

Research Support

Samantha Morrison, PhD
DTC Biostatistician/Lead Biostatistician III, BERD Methods Core

Lauren G. Anderson, PhD
DTC Research Program Manager; Director of Research Development, Department of Surgery

Brandi Bottinger, MD

Joel Collier, PhD

Cliburn Chi Wei Chan, PhD

Amanda MacLeod, MD

Garnett Kelsoe, DSc

Mari Shinohara, PhD

Maria Ciofanci, PhD

Qi-Jing Li, PhD

Behavioral Medicine

James Blumenthal, MD

Cardiology

Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, MD, PhD

Christopher Holley, MD, PhD

Robert J. Mentz, MD

Chetan B. Patel, MD

Gastroenterology

Anna Mae Diehl, MD

Julius M. Wilder, MD, PhD

Geriatrics

Heather E. Whitson, MD, MHS

Infectious Diseases

Barbara D. Alexander, MD

John Perfect, MD

Micah McClain, MD, PhD

J. Andrew Alspaugh, MD

Nephrology

Xunrong Luo, MD, PhD

Scott Sanoff, MD

Matthew J. Ellis, MD

Myles S. Wolf, MD

Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine

Scott M. Palmer, MD, MHS

Laurie D. Snyder, MD, MHS

John M. Reynolds, MD

Jamie L. Todd, MD

Joseph Heitman, MD, PhD

Micah A. Luftig, PhD

Pathology

Dongfeng Chen

Pathology Clinical Services

Laura Barisoni, MD

Elizabeth N. Pavlisko, MD

Shannon J. McCall, MD

Alan D. Proia, MD, PhD

Pathology Research

Soman N. Abraham, MD, PhD

Allergy/Immunology

John W. Sleasman, MD

Infectious Diseases

Dorothy E. Dow, MD

Matthew Kelly, MD

Jennifer Byrns, PharmD, BCPS, BCTXP, CPP

Abdominal Transplant Surgery

Allan D. Kirk, MD, PhD (Chairman)

Annette M. Jackson, PhD

Stuart J. Knechtle, MD

Jean Kwun, PhD

Debra L. Sudan, MD

Andrew Barbas, MD

Bradley H. Collins, MD

Lisa McElroy, MD

Kadiyala V. Ravindra, MBBS

Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Matthew G. Hartwig, MD

Carmelo A. Milano, MD

Kunal Patel, MD, PhD

Joseph W. Turek, MD, PhD

Plastic, Maxillofacial, and Oral Surgery

Linda C. Cendales, MD

Surgical Sciences

Kent J. Weinhold, PhD

Dawn E. Bowles, PhD

He Xu, MD