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J. Keith Melancon, MD (Theta Nu 1987), is a Professor of Surgery at The George Wash- ington University School of Health & Sciences in Washington, D.C.
J. Keith Melancon
Medical School. He com- pleted his internship and residency at Tulane Medical Center. He then completed a transplant surgery fel- lowship at the University of Minnesota. Prior to moving to Wash- ington, D.C., Dr. Melancon was the director of Kidney and Pancreas Transplanta- tion at Johns Hopkins Uni- versity Hospital. He most recently was the director of
Kidney and Pancreas Trans- plantation at Georgetown University Hospital, Wash- ington Hospital Center, and Children's National Medical Center. Dr. Melancon has garnered national and in- ternational recognition for setting the world's record for simultaneously trans- planting the greatest num- ber of kidneys via Paired Kidney Exchanges.
Dr. Melancon is a board- certified general surgeon, and his clinical interests are transplant surgery, laparo- scopic surgery, and vascular access surgery. His research interests are in the area of improving outcomes of transplanted organs via de- creasing ischemia/reperfu- sion injury.
Dr. Melancon received his medical degree from Tulane
Anthony C. Watkins Anthony C. Watkins, MD (Alpha Delta 1998), is a Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery at NYU Langone Health in New York City.
versity of Tennessee College of Medicine and then com- pleted his general surgery residency training at the University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey Medi- cal School, and spent an additional two years con- ducting research related to trauma hemorrhagic shock and multiple organ dys- function syndrome. He completed his fel- lowship in Multi-Organ Transplantation/Hepatobi- liary Surgery at New York-
Presbyterian Hospital/Co- lumbia University. Prior to joining NYU, he served as the Program Director of the General Surgery Residency Program and Assistant Pro- fessor of Surgery at New York-Presbyter i an/We i l l Cornell Medicine. He is an experienced, board-certified surgeon who specializes in kidney, pancreas and liver trans- plantation, laparoscopic donor nephrectomies, and general surgery. He was
recognized by Super Doc- tor, as a New York Rising Star in 2015 and a recipient of the Top Healthcare Pro- fessionals Under 40 Award by the National Medical As- sociation in 2013. Also, Dr. Watkins has been repeat- edly recognized by Castle Connolly as one of "Ameri- ca's Top Doctors," an honor given to the top 1% of all physicians in the country.
Dr. Watkins received his B.A. degree from Fisk University. He received his M.D. degree from the Uni-
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