Primer on Transplantation

A comprehensive yet concise overview of the dynamic and rapidly evolving discipline of transplant medicine. Contains clinical case studies and presents the core knowledge required throughout. Includes information on recent advances and promising areas of ongoing clinical and basic research in transplantation. The table of contents has not yet been identified fully, but we have discussed the following preliminary overview. Infectious Disease will not get its own chapter but be included in relevant chapters.. 1. Immunology/Basic Science. 2. Solid Organs Kidney Liver Heart Lung Pancreas Intestine 3. Pharmacology. 4. Pediatrics. 5. Genomics/Proteomics Michael Lucey has been appointed by the society as the Editor of the American Society of Transplantation Self-Assessment Program. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, and after general medicine training in Dublin, completed fellowhips in gastroenterology and hepatology at St Bartholomews Hospital, London, the Liver Unit at King's College Hospital, London and the University of Michigan. He has been Medical Director of the Liver Transplant Programs at the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania. In 2001, he became Chief of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Wisconsin. He was President of the American Society of Transplantation in 2003-4.