Stuart J. Knechtle, MD, FACS is the Mary and Deryl Hart Professor of Surgery and a member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina. He is the lead editor of Kidney Transplantation: Principles and Practice, 8th Edition.

Dr. Knechtle received his MD from Weill Cornell Medical College and did further training in surgery and multi-organ transplantation at Duke University Hospital and University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Prior to his position at Duke, Dr. Knechtle was Director of Transplantation at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Chief of the Division of Transplantation in the Department of Surgery at Emory University. Previously, Dr. Knechtle had started the living donor liver transplant program at the University of Wisconsin, performed the first combined liver/pancreas transplant in the state, and was named the first Ray D. Owen Professor of Transplantation, establishing a highly productive research laboratory in transplant immunology. He has published over 250 scientific papers, over 50 book chapters, and edited three medical textbooks. He serves as editor-in-chief of Transplantation Reviews, and he serves on three other editorial boards. He is actively engaged in liver surgery and transplantation.

During his career as an academic surgeon, Dr. Knechtle’s research projects have centered on the immunology of surgery and transplantation, including both cellular and antibody-mediated immune responses, immunologic tolerance strategies, monitoring of rejection, and strategies to prevent antibody-mediated rejection. He leads several clinical trials including research to treat autoimmune hepatitis and development of better liver preservation using machine perfusion. Dr. Knechtle has also helped develop new treatment protocols for liver cancer that benefit patients with cancer of the bile ducts.