Kenneth Newell, MD, PhD

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.