Jean Emond
Jean C. Emond is the current Thomas S. Zimmer Professor of Surgery at the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. He is also a Vice Chair in the Department of Surgery and the Chief of Transplantation at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Emond completed both his undergraduate ('75) and medical training ('79) at the University of Chicago.
Emond participated in the first living-donor liver transplantation in children in North America.[1] In 1997, Emond established the liver transplant program at Columbia, which has become one of the largest in the United States performing 152 liver transplants in 2006.[2]
Selected publications
- One-year morbidity after donor right hepatectomy. Rudow DL, Brown RS Jr, Emond JC, Marratta D, Bellemare S, Kinkhabwala M. Liver Transpl. (11):1428-31. Nov. 2004.
- Interpretation of Liver Chemistries in Adult Donors After Living Donor Liver Transplantation. Russo MW, Lapointe-Rudow D, Teixeira A, Guarrera J, Dove LD, Gaglio P, Emond JC, Kinkhabwala M, Brown RS. J Clin Gastroenterol. (9):810-4. Oct. 2004.
- Organ Donation and Utilization in the United States. Ojo AO, Heinrichs D, Emond JC, McGowan JJ, Guidinger MK, Delmonico FL, Metzger RA. AmJ Transplantation. 4(Supp 9):27-37. 2004.
- Split liver transplantation in the United States: Outcomes of a national survey. Renz JF, Emond JC, Yersiz H, Ascher NL, Busuttil RW. Ann Surg. 239(2):172-81. Feb. 2004.