Kenneth A Newell, MD

Dr. Newell came to Emory from the University of Chicago, where he had been serving as director of kidney and pancreas transplantation. Prior to joining the faculty of UChicago, he earned his PhD in immunology and completed an abdominal transplantation fellowship at the institution. He received his medical degree from the University of Michigan and completed his general surgery residency at Loyola Medical Center in Illinois.

Dr. Newell served as director of Emory's living donor kidney transplant program from 2003-2014 and established Emory's unrelated paired donor kidney exchange program in 2007. His various research pursuits have included optimizing belatacept as an immunosuppressant in renal transplantation, identification and mechanistic investigations of tolerant kidney transplant patients, and the development of transplant strategies uniquely responsive to the needs of children

Dr. Newell served as president of the American Society of Transplantation from 2014-2015, was an at large member of the OPTN/UNOS Vascularized Composite Allograft Transplant (VCA) Committee from 2013-2016, and chaired the Mechanistic Studies Subcommittee of the Clinical Trials in Organ Transplantation program of the NIH.

American Association of Immunologists

American College of Surgeons

American Society of Transplant Surgeons

American Society of Transplantation

Society of University Surgeons

The Transplantation Society

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Atlanta's Top Doctors, Atlanta Magazine, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2017, 2019

Inaugural Inducted Faculty, American Society of Transplantation, 2015

Selected for the Emory University School of Medicine Dean's Celebration of Faculty Excellence, 2014

Featured Basic Scientist, American Society of Transplantation Newsletter, January/February 2004

Guide to America's Top Surgeons, 2002 Edition, 2004 Edition

Guide to America's Top Physicians, 2003 Edition

Castle Connolly's America's Top Doctors, 2001-2017

American Society of Transplant Surgeons Mid-Level Faculty Research Award, 2001

Chicago Magazine, Top Physicians, 2000

American Society of Transplant Surgeons/Roche Laboratories Presidential Travel Award, 1999

Outstanding Faculty Presentation, Charles Huggins Research Conference, 1997

John L. Keeley Surgical Fellowship, 1988