Dr. Douglas Alan Hale M.D.
Surgeon
1313 21st Ave S Oxford House, Suite Nashville TN, 37232About
Dr. Douglas Hale is a general surgeon practicing in Nashville, TN. Dr. Hale specializes in abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas and often thyroid glands. General surgeons are able to deal with almost any surgical or critical care emergency, also involving the skin or soft tissue trauma. Dr. Hale provides quality surgical service for gravely ill or injured patients and is able to respond quickly due to knowledge of various surgical procedures.
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- 1991
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Delayed autotransplantation of a solitary kidney facilitated by pump perfusion preservation.
- Potent skin allograft survival prolongation using a committed progenitor fraction of bone marrow in mice.
- Biological effects of induction immunosuppression.
- Targeted T-cell depletion or CD154 blockade generates mixed hemopoietic chimerism and donor-specific tolerance in mice treated with sirolimus and donor bone marrow.
- Strategies for minimizing immunosuppression in kidney transplantation.
- Measurement of chimerism in cynomolgus monkeys using human-specific short tandem repeat-based assay.
- Results from a human renal allograft tolerance trial evaluating T-cell depletion with alemtuzumab combined with deoxyspergualin.
- Low dose busulfan facilitates chimerism and tolerance in a murine model.
- Basic transplantation immunology.
- Implementation of telehealth is associated with improved timeliness to kidney transplant waitlist evaluation.
- A Cost Comparison for Telehealth Utilization in the Kidney Transplant Waitlist Evaluation Process.
Fellowships
- Transplantation Immunology and Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts USA 2000
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