Associate Professor
Program Director, UAB Abdominal Transplant Fellowship
Areas of Interest
kidney transplantation, immunosuppression
Biography
Dr. Douglas Anderson grew up in Franklin, Tennessee, just south of Nashville. He attended Vanderbilt University, where he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biomedical engineering. After graduation, he remained at Vanderbilt to attend medical school before relocating to Atlanta in 2009. Once in Atlanta, he completed his residency in general surgery and fellowship in transplant surgery at Emory University. While there, he spent two years in the Emory Transplant Center laboratory researching co-stimulation blockade-based immunosuppression strategies in a pre-clinical model of kidney transplantation.
Selected Publications
Locke JE, Kumar V, Anderson D, Porrett PM. Normal Graft Function After Pig-to-Human Kidney Xenotransplant. JAMA Surg. 2023 Oct 1;158(10):1106-1108.
Porrett PM, Orandi BJ, Kumar V, Houp J, Anderson D, Killian AC, Hauptfeld-Dolejsek V, Martin DE, Macedon S, Budd N, Stegner KL, Dandro A, Kokkinaki M, Kuravi KV, Reed RD, Fatima H, Killian JT, Baker G, Perry J, Wright ED, Cheung MD, Erman EN, Kraebber K, Gamblin T, Guy L, George JF, Ayares D, Locke JE. First clinical-grade porcine kidney xenotransplant using a human decedent model. Am J Transplant. 2022 Apr;22(4):1037-1053.
Education
M.D.
Vanderbilt University
M.S.
Vanderbilt University
Biomedical Engineering
Residency
Emory University
General Surgery
Research Fellowship
Emory Transplant Center
Clinical Fellowship
Emory University
Abdominal Transplant Surgery
Contact
Campus Address
FOT 754
Phone
Patient Appointments and Questions: 205-975-9200
Academic Office: 205-934-7714