Idelberto Raul Badell, MD

Dr. Badell is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Transplantation at Emory University School of Medicine. He also serves as the Surgical Director of the Living Donor Kidney Program for Emory Transplant Center.  Dr. Badell received his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in 2006, after which he came to Emory for his general surgery residency and abdominal organ transplantation fellowship, which he completed in 2015. Within this period of clinical training, he completed a pre-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and a post-doctoral research fellowship in transplant immunology at Emory Transplant Center. During his clinical fellowship he focused on basic immunology and clinical trial investigations. His clinical practice consists primarily of kidney/pancreas transplantation.

American Society of Transplant Surgeons

American Society of Transplantation

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Phi Beta Kappa, 1999

High Honor Graduate, University of Texas at Austin, 2001

Alpha Omega Alpha, 2005

Honor Graduate, Baylor College of Medicine, 2006

ABSITE Performance Award, 2008, 2011-2013

AST/ASTS Young Investigator Award, American Transplant Congress, 2009, 2010

TTS Travel Award, Joint Meeting of IPITA-IXA, 2009

Fellowship in Transplantation Grant, American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 2013

Emory University Research Committee Award, 2016

NIH/NIAID LRP Pediatric Research Award, 2016, 2018

NIH/NIAID K08 CDA, 2017

Emory 1% Award, for investigators whose NIH grant proposals have received study section review scores in the top one percentile, 2017

ASTS Vanguard Prize, 2018

Astellas Faculty Development Grant, American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 2018