Jean Emond

Jean C. Emond, MD is the current Thomas S. Zimmer Professor of Surgery and Vice Chair for Operations and Quality Management at the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. Dr. Emond was a key member of the team that performed the first living donor liver transplantation in children in North America (CUMC LiverMD 2007). He led the program between 1990 and 1992—maintaining the only active program in living donor liver transplantation in the United States at the time. In 1997, Dr. Emond established the liver transplant program at Columbia, which has become one of the largest in the United States performing 158 liver transplants in 2006 (CUMC Immunology 2007). Dr. Emond also teamed up with the liver surgical team on September 24, 2004 in the first ever combined heart-liver transplant, performed at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center.

Dr. Emond has devoted himself to research concerning the ability of the liver to regenerate. He has an international reputation for living donor liver transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery, and has trained numerous liver transplant surgeons who are active throughout the world (CUMC Transplant 2007).

Selected Publications

 * One-year morbidity after donor right hepatectomy. Rudow DL, Brown RS Jr, Emond JC, Marratta D, Bellemare S, Kinkhabwala M. Liver Transpl. (11):1428-31. Nov. 2004.
 * Interpretation of Liver Chemistries in Adult Donors After Living Donor Liver Transplantation. Russo MW, Lapointe-Rudow D, Teixeira A, Guarrera J, Dove LD, Gaglio P, Emond JC, Kinkhabwala M, Brown RS. J Clin Gastroenterol. (9):810-4. Oct. 2004.
 * Organ Donation and Utilization in the United States. Ojo AO, Heinrichs D, Emond JC, McGowan JJ, Guidinger MK, Delmonico FL, Metzger RA. AmJ Transplantation. 4(Supp 9):27-37. 2004.
 * Split liver transplantation in the United States: Outcomes of a national survey. Renz JF, Emond JC, Yersiz H, Ascher NL, Busuttil RW. Ann Surg. 239(2):172-81. Feb. 2004.