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Winston Hewitt, MD

Winston Hewitt, MD


Winston Hewitt, MD, who started practicing at Emory in 2008, is Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Emory Transplant Center. Prior to joining Emory, Dr. Hewitt was assistant professor and program director of the abdominal organ transplantation surgical fellowship program at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL. He also served on the Organ Transplant Advisory Council for the state of Florida.





Specialty

Transplantation (Board certified since 2001)
Surgery (Board certified since 2000)

Areas of Expertise

  • Biliary Disease
  • Biliary Tumors
  • Liver Cancer
  • Liver Surgery
  • Liver Transplantation
  • Liver Tumor
  • Pancreatic Disease
  • Pancreatic Surgery

Groundbreaking Research and Clinical Trials

  • Ischemia-Reperfusion injury in hepatic allografts
  • Transplantation for cholangiocarcinoma
  • Hepatopancreatobiliary malignancy
  •  Outcomes analysis

The Road to Emory: Education

  • Medical School: Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 1993
  • Residency: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, 1995; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, 1999
  • Fellowships: Research Fellowship, General Surgery, Liver Support Research Laboratory, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, 1997; University Hospital, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, 2001

Memberships

  • American Association of the Study of Liver Disease
  • American College of Surgeons
  • American Society of Transplant Surgeons
  • International Liver Transplant Society

Awards

  • The Dr. Ian Maxwell Gourley Prize in Pediatrics, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 1993.
  • G.H. Ettinger Scholarship in Family Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 1993.
  • Edgar Forrester Scholarship in Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 1993.
  • Edgar Forrester Prize in Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 1993.
  • Sarah and Henry Scott Memorial Prize in Surgery, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 1993.
  • University Gold Medal in Medicine and Pediatrics, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 1993.
  • Leo G. Rigler Award in Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, 1995.
  • American Society for Artificial Internal Organs Fellowship Award, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, 1996.
  • European Association for the Study of the Liver Fellowship Award, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, 1996.
  • National Medical Association Drew-Walker Surgical Fellowship Award, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, 1996.
  • NIH Living Donor Liver Transplantation Travel Award, LHSC, 2000.
  • Canadian Society of Transplantation Fellows Award, LHSC), 2001.

Major or Recent Publications

  • Combined liver transplantation together with partial/total nephrectomy in patients with renal cell cancer and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. Transplant International. 2007 May; 20(5),471-2.
  • Liver retransplantation of patients with hepatitis C infection is associated with acceptable patient and graft survival. Liver Transpl 2007 Dec; 13(12),1717-27.
  •  Primary Alveolar Soft-Part Sarcoma of the Liver: Anomalous Presentation of a Rare Disease, American Surgeon, Jan 2008; 74(1),43-46(4).

Personal

Dr. Hewitt likes to play sports and travel. He became interested in Liver Transplant when he worked in the Artificial Liver Support research Lab for two years as a resident.