Dr. Douglas Anderson is a native of Franklin, Tennessee, just south of Nashville. He attended Vanderbilt University, where he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biomedical engineering. After graduation, he remained at Vanderbilt to attend medical school before relocating to Atlanta in 2009.

 

Once in Atlanta, he completed his residency in general surgery and fellowship in transplant surgery at Emory University. While there, he spent two years in the Emory Transplant Center laboratory researching co-stimulation blockade-based immunosuppression strategies in a pre-clinical model of kidney transplantation. Upon completing his training, he became an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Transplantation at the University of Alabama. Dr. Anderson is the Surgical Director for pancreas transplant and Associate Surgical Director for kidney transplant in the UAB Comprehensive Transplant Institute. He additionally serves as the Fellowship Training Director for the Diethelm Fellowship in Abdominal Transplant Surgery at UAB.

 

His research efforts include health services research in transplantation, clinical trials, and xenotransplantation as a potential solution to the shortage of available donor organs.