Dr. Todd V Brennan M.D.
Transplant Surgeon
Duke University Medical Ctr Dumc 3512 Durham NC, 27710Rating
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About
Dr. Todd Brennan is a transplant surgeon practicing in Durham, NC. Dr. Brennan specializes in organ transplants, and may perform surgeries involved with the transplant of organs such as the kidneys, liver, pancreas, intestines, heart, lungs, tracheal tissue and more. As a transplant surgeon, Dr. Brennan performs long, complex surgeries that might take many hours to complete. Transplant surgeons remove the organ from the donor as well as transplant the organ in the recipient. Dr. Brennan works with transplant physicians, nurses and surgical residents, and is responsible for and complications which may arise during or after surgery.
Education and Training
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1998
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Thorotrast-induced liver neoplasia: a collective review.
- Targeted lymphoid homing of dendritic cells is required for prolongation of allograft survival.
- Optimizing living donor kidney graft function by donor-recipient pair selection.
- A new T-cell receptor transgenic model of the CD4+ direct pathway: level of priming determines acute versus chronic rejection.
- Requirements for prolongation of allograft survival with regulatory T cell infusion in lymphosufficient hosts.
- Recent advances in immunosuppressive therapy for prevention of renal allograft rejection.
- Derivation of non-infectious envelope proteins from virions isolated from plasma negative for HIV antibodies.
- Pneumatosis intestinalis: not always a surgical indication.
- Upregulation of IL-1β, IL-6, and CCL-2 by a novel mouse model of pancreatic ischemia-reperfusion injury.
- May-Thurner syndrome complicating left-sided donor nephrectomy.
- Complete thymectomy in adult rats with non-invasive endotracheal intubation.
- Innate immune activation by tissue injury and cell death in the setting of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
- Modification of host dendritic cells by microchimerism-derived extracellular vesicles generates split tolerance.
- Fibroblastic niches prime T cell alloimmunity through Delta-like Notch ligands.
- PD-L1 serves as a double agent in separating GVL from GVHD.
Awards
- 2007 Novartis Fellowship in Transplantation, American Society of Transplant
- American Transplant Congress 2004 Young Investigator Award
- 2004 Roche Laboratories Scientist Scholarship, American Society of Transpl
- American College of Surgeons 2003 Research Fellowship
- Merck Index Award for Research, 1994 University of California, Los Angeles
- Departmental Highest Honors, 1994 University of California, Los Angeles
- Arthur Furst Award for Research, 1993 University of California, Los Angeles
- Geissman Award for Organic Chemistry, 1991 University of California, Los Angeles
- Phi Beta Kappa, 1992 University of California, Los Angeles
- Master Science, Biochemistry, 1994 University of California, Los Angeles
Treatments
- Abdominal Surgery, Abdominal Transplant, Surgical Procedures And More
Professional Memberships
- Member American Society of Transplant Surgeons
- Member American Society of Transplantation
- Member American College of Surgeons
- Member Massachusetts Medical Society
Fellowships
- Univ. Calif. San Francisco, Abdominal Transplant Surgery, CA, United States 2009
- Abdominal Transplantation, University of California San Francisco Medical Center 2007
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