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Christian Larsen, M.D., Ph.D.
The Emory Clinic
Professor and Chair of Surgery
Chief, Transplantation Svcs
Executive Director, Emory Transplant Cntr
Co-Director, Pancreas Transplant Program


Specialties


Surgery (Board certified since 1992)
Transplantation



Area of Clinical Interest


islet transplantation
kidney transplantation
pancreatic transplantation





Hospital Affiliation(s)


Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Emory University Hospital



Addresses Locations


Emory University Hospital
1364 Clifton Road, B-206 Atlanta , GA 30322 Map to the office
(404) 727-0717



Year started practicing at Emory

1991



Education


Medical School
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 1984

Residency
Emory University Affiliated Hospitals, Atlanta, GA 1991

Fellowship
University of Oxford, UK, 1990
Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA, 1993 - Transplantation Surgery

Other
PhD, University of Oxford, Oxford, England



Organizational Leadership Memberships

American Association of Immunologists

American College of Surgeons, Fellow (FACS)

American Diabetes Association

American Society for the Advancement of Science

American Society of Transplant Surgeons

American Society of Transplantation

Georgia Transplant Foundation

International Pancreas and Islet Transplant Association

The National Kidney Foundation

The Society of Clinical Surgery



Awards

AST-Roche Basic Science Established
Investigator Award, American Society of Transplantation, 2004

Dean’s Clinical Investigator Award,
Emory University School of Medicine, 2002-2003

Dean’s Clinical Investigator Award,
Emory University School of Medicine, 1999-2000

Dean’s Distinguished Faculty Lecture
and Award, Emory University School of Medicine, 2009

Emory University - Great Teachers Lecture
2002

NIH Basic Science Award,
American Society of Transplant Physicians, 1997

TTS-Roche Award for Excellence
in Translational Science, The Transplantation Society, 2006

Thomas E. Starzl Prize in Surgery
and Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, 2007



Major or Recent Publications

Bray, R.A., D.L. Nolen, C. Larsen, T. Pearson, K.A. Newell, K. Kokko, A. Guasch, P. Tso, J.B. Mendel, and H.M. Gebel. 2006. Transplanting the highly sensitized patient: the Emory algorithm. Am J Transplant,6:2307-2315.

Ford ML, and C.P. Larsen. 2009. Translating costimulation blockade to the clinic: lessons learned from three pathways. . Immunol Rev May,229(1):294-306.

Gangappa, S., K.E. Kokko, L.M. Carlson, T. Gourley, K.A. Newell, T.C. Pearson, R. Ahmed, and C.P. Larsen. 2008. Immune responsiveness and protective immunity after transplantation. Transplant Int Apr,21:293-303.

Larsen, C.P., S.J. Knechtle, A. Adams, T. Pearson, and A.D. Kirk. 2006. A new look at blockade of T-cell costimulation: a therapeutic strategy for long-term maintenance immunosuppression. Am J Transplant,6:876-883.

Larsen, C.P., T.C. Pearson, A.B. Adams, P. Tso, N. Shirasugi, E. Strobertm, D. Anderson, S. Cowan, K. Price, J. Naemura, J. Emswiler, J. Greene, L.A. Turk, J. Bajorath, R. Townsend, D. Hagerty, P.S. Linsley, and R.J. Peach. 2005. Rational development of LEA29Y (belatacept), a high-affinity variant of CTLA4-Ig with potent immunosuppressive properties. Am J Transplant,5:443-453.

Newell, K.A., C.P. Larsen, and A.D. Kirk. 2006. Transplant tolerance: converging on a moving target. Transplantation,81:1-6.

Newell, K.A., and C.P. Larsen. 2006. Tolerance assays: measuring the unknown. Transplantation,81:1503-1509.

Newell, K.A., and C.P. Larsen. 2006. Toward transplantation tolerance: a large step on a long road. Am J Transplant,6:1989-1990.

Newell, K.A., and C.P. Larsen. 2007. Transplantation tolerance. Seminars in Nephrology,27:487-497.

Vincenti, F., C.* Larsen, A. Durrbach, T. Wekerle, B. Nashan, G. Blancho, P. Lang, J. Grinyo, P.F. Halloran, K. Solez, D. Hagerty, E. Levy, W. Zhou, K. Natarajan, and B. Charpentier. 2005. Costimulation blockade with belatacept in renal transplantation. The New England Journal of Medicine,353:770-781.