Yale New Haven Appointment

HealthNewsDigest.com) - New Haven, CT, July 17, 2007 - Sukru Emre, M.D., has been appointed director of the Yale-New Haven Transplantation Center and section chief of transplant surgery and immunology in the department of surgery at Yale School of Medicine. In his role, Dr. Emre will oversee the activities of the center and its multi-disciplinary group of physicians and caregivers. He will also continue to practice his speciality, adult and pediatric liver transplantation. (photo by Robert Lisak)"Dr. Emre is a leader in the field of liver transplantation," noted Tucker Leary, vice president, administration, Yale-New Haven Hospital. "He is recognized throughout the Northeast for his expertise in the area of pediatric transplantation. We are pleased he has become a member of the Yale-New Haven team."Dr. Emre received his medical degree and completed his residency at the University of Istanbul, Turkey. He completed one fellowship in hepatobiliary surgery at the University of Istanbul and another in transplant surgery at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.Prior to coming to Yale-New Haven, Dr. Emre directed both the pediatric and adult liver transplant programs at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Under his leadership, the program at Mount Sinai became one of the nation's best. He also helped develop and structure Mount Sinai’s transplant surgery fellowship program, one of the most sought-after training programs in the country.“In addition to organ transplants, Dr. Emre’s major interests include solving complex clinical problems in both pediatric and adult liver transplantation and maximizing the availability of donor organs,” explained Robert Udelsman, M.D., Yale-New Haven Hospital’s chief of surgery. “He has extraordinary expertise in performing split-liver transplants (dividing a liver between two recipients) and living donor transplants which involves transplanting a portion of a donor’s healthy liver.”Dr. Emre’s research interests include liver transplantation in patients with liver cancer, quality of life and recurrent diseases after transplantation, organ allocation and organ donation. Dr. Emre’s many society memberships include the American College of Surgeons, American Society of Transplant Surgeons, American Society of Transplantation, American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, International Pediatric Transplantation Association, American Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association, International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association and the International Liver Transplant Society. He also serves on the editorial boards for the Annals of Medical Sciences and Transplantation Proceedings, Liver Transplantation and Pediatric Transplantation. Dr. Emre is the author of more than 180 publications and 5 book chapters and was named one of the top doctors in the U.S. in 2006 by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., a nationally recognized healthcare research and information company. Also, he has been recognized as one of the best physicians in the New York metropolitan area by New York magazine in its annual “Best Doctors” issue since 2005. Yale-New Haven’s Transplantation Center offers a full range of transplant and post-transplant support services and its physicians are dedicated to the care of patients with end-stage organ failure who might benefit from transplantation. Programs include: heart, liver, kidney, and pancreas transplants; state-of-the-art medical therapy for patients suffering from kidney and liver failure; liver cancer in cirrhotic patients and those with Type I diabetes mellitus; and vascular access services for patients with end-stage kidney disease. Additionally, the Yale-New Haven transplant physicians are actively engaged in clinical research that leads to new and improved treatments related to organ transplants and designed to continually improve the outlook for transplant patients. Dr. Emre began his position at Yale-New Haven Hospital on July 9.www.ynhh.orgwww.HealthNewsDigest