Sukru H. Emre, MD, FACS

Professor; Section Chief; and Director, Yale-New Haven Transplantation Center

Surgical Specialty

Transplant & Immunology

Clinical Interests

Adult and pediatric liver transplant; split liver transplant; living donor transplants; hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery including hepatocellular carcinoma and hepatoblastoma; portal hypertension and shunt surgeries; immunology and immunosuppressive management of post transplant patients; organ allocation and donation; acute liver failure; Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy (FAP); biliary atresia; hepatitis C.

Research Interests

Living donor liver transplantation; quality of life after transplant; recurrent diseases after transplantation; acute rejection; autoimmune hepatitis; organ allocation and organ donation; chronic allograft dysfunction; early graft function / dysfunction; infectious complications of immunosuppression; complications of transplantation and immunosuppression; expanded donors; high-risk recipients; immunosuppressive agents; ischemia-reperfusion injury; malignancy: donor, transplant candidates, and transplant recipients; Post-Tansplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder (PTLD); hepatocellular carcinoma and transplantation; surgical techniques and complications; viral hepatitis.

Board Certification:

• General Surgery, Foreign Board Certified 1982
• Fellow of the American College of Surgeons 1995

Education:	University of Istanbul, Faculty of Medicine, MD 1977
Training:	Residency: General Surgery, University of Istanbul, Faculty of Medicine, 1982 Fellowship: Transplant Surgery, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York 1994 Fellowship: Hepatobilliary Surgery, University of Istanbul, Faculty of Medicine 1998

Contact

Office Address
Department of Surgery
Transplant & Immunology
P.O. Box 20862
New Haven, CT 06520-8062

E-mail
sukru.emre@yale.edu

Office Phone
(203) 785-2565

Fax
(203) 737-7162