Assistant Professor
Program Director, UAB Abdominal Transplant Fellowship

Major Research Interests

Interests include kidney transplantation and immunosuppression.

Biography

Dr. Douglas Anderson grew up in 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.

Education

M.D.
Vanderbilt University

M.S.
Vanderbilt University
Biomedical Engineering

Residency
Emory University
General Surgery

Research Fellowship
Emory Transplant Center

Clinical Fellowship
Emory University
Abdominal Transplant Surgery

Contact

Campus Address
FOT 754

Phone
Patient Appointments and Questions: 205-975-9200
Academic Office: 205-934-7714

Email
douglasanderson@uabmc.edu