Allan Kirk, MD

Allan D. Kirk completed his MD, his PhD in Immunology, and his surgery residency at Duke University, and completed a multi-organ transplant fellowship at the University of Wisconsin. His clinical and investigative work in transplant immune management has been performed as Chief of Transplant Research for the Armed Services Transplant Service in Washington, DC, Chief of the intramural organ transplant program at the National Institutes of Health, Vice Chair for Surgical Research at Emory University, and since 2014, Chair of Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief at Duke University.  Dr. Kirk is the David C. Sabiston, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Surgery and holds additional Professorships in Pediatrics and Integrative Immunobiology. He has published over 350 scientific manuscripts that have been cited over 16,000 times, has numerous patents, and continues NIH- and DoD-sponsored investigations in organ transplantation and immune management. He has focused increasingly on the curation and analysis of multidimensional data for use in Real World medical applications and clinical decision support tool development. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, and serves on the Board of Eledon Pharmaceuticals and Clinetic, Inc.