William Henry Kitchens Jr., MD, PhD, FACS

Dr. Kitchens joined the team in 2016. After graduating from Harvard Medical School with honors, Dr. Kitchens continued his general surgical training at Massachusetts General Hospital. During his research sabbatical from residency, he moved back to his hometown of Atlanta to successfully pursue a PhD in transplant immunology at Emory University under the guidance of Mandy Ford, PhD, and Christian Larsen, MD, DPhil. He finished his surgical training at MGH, then returned to Emory to complete a clinical fellowship in abdominal transplant surgery. Throughout his training years, Dr. Kitchen received a variety of awards recognizing the quality of his research efforts, including three consecutive Young Investigator Awards from the American Transplant Congress and two Young Innovator Awards at Annual Scientific Exchange meetings of the American Society of Transplantation. He was also awarded the highest research awards offered for surgical residents and transplant fellows by the American Society of Transplant Surgeons.

American College of Surgeons

American Society of Transplantation

American Society of Transplant Surgeons

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Research Fellowship, American Surgical Society, 2018-2020

Fellowship in Transplantation, American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 2014

Young Investigator Award, American Transplant Congress, 2011-2013

Young Innovator Award, American Society of Transplantation Annual Scientific Exchange, 2010, 2011

Distinguished Fellow Award, American Society of Transplantation/Canadian Society of Transplantation Joint Symposium, 2011

Roche Laboratories Scientist Scholarship, American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 2009-2011

Robert Linton Surgical Research Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital, 2009

Student Research Award, Association for Academic Surgery, 2006

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Training Fellowship, 2004-2005