Brought to you by the world's leading transplant clinicians, Textbook of Organ Transplantation provides a complete and comprehensive overview of modern transplantation in all its complexity, from basic science to gold-standard surgical techniques to post-operative care, and from likely outcomes to considerations for transplant program administration, bioethics and health policy.
Beautifully produced in full color throughout, and with over 600 high-quality illustrations, it successfully:
- Provides a solid overview of what transplant clinicians/surgeons do, and with topics presented in an order that a clinician will encounter them.
- Presents a holistic look at transplantation, foregrounding the interrelationships between transplant team members and non-surgical clinicians in the subspecialties relevant to pre- and post-operative patient care, such as gastroenterology, nephrology, and cardiology.
- Offers a focused look at pediatric transplantation, and identifies the ways in which it significantly differs from transplantation in adults.
- Includes coverage of essential non-clinical topics such as transplant program management and administration; research design and data collection; transplant policy and bioethical issues.
Textbook of Organ Transplantation is the market-leading and definitive transplantation reference work, and essential reading for all transplant surgeons, transplant clinicians, program administrators, basic and clinical investigators and any other members of the transplantation team responsible for the clinical management or scientific study of transplant patients.
About the Author: Allan D. Kirk is a Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics and a practicing transplant surgeon and physician at Emory University Hospital and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. Dr. Kirk was the inaugural Chief of the NIH intramural Transplantation Branch and he has been Principal Investigator (PI) for multiple past and ongoing clinical trials. Dr. Kirk's bibliography contains over 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts and he is Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Transplantation.
Joren C. Madsen is the founding Director of the MGH Transplant Center, which encompasses kidney, liver, lung, heart, pancreas and small bowel transplantation and is Co-Director of the Transplantation Biology Research Center, a multi-disciplinary group of scientists translating discoveries in basic immunology into clinical protocols. Dr. Madsen has authored more than 150 publications and served on the editorial boards of Transplantation, the American Journal of Transplantation, and the Annals of Thoracic Surgery. In 2009, Dr. Madsen became the first surgeon to be elected president of the American Society of Transplantation.
Chris Larsen, MD, DPhil, became Dean of Emory University School of Medicine, Vice President for Health Center Integration for the Woodruff Health Sciences Center, and Chairman of the Board of The Emory Clinic in January 2013. An internationally recognized leader in transplant surgery and immunology, Larsen joined the Emory medical faculty in 1991 and was appointed Chair of Surgery in 2009. He became founding director of the Emory Transplant Center (ETC) in 2001, building and directing one of the foremost research and clinical transplantation programs in the world.
