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Kristina H. Lemon, MD

Associate Professor of Clinical

Surgery | College of Medicine

Education/Credentials
  • Graduate Diploma: Memorial University of Newfoundland (Clinical Epidemiology)
  • MD: University of Western Ontario
  • BA: Eckerd College (Psychology, Minor in Biology and Chemistry)
Board Certifications & Licenses

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (Certification Date: 2015-06-30)

Specialties

Surgery-Transplant

Contact Information

Clinical Interests

General Surgery

Transplant Surgery

Abdominal Hernia

Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)

Acute Renal failure (Acute kidney failure)

Biliary Tract Liver Disease

Cholangitis

Cirrhosis

Groin Hernias

Hepatobiliary

Kidney Disease

Liver disease

Liver Failure

Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD)

Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH)

Obstructive Biliary Tract Liver Disease

Renal Artery Obstruction

Renal Artery Stenosis

Renal Cancer

Renal Cell Carcinoma

Peer Reviewed Publications

Zambeli-Ljepović, Alan; Kling, Catherine E; Dageforde, Leigh Anne; Lemon, Kristina; Quillin, R Cutler; Cortez, Alexander R 2025. Progress Update on the Transplant Surgery Training Pipeline in the United States. Transplantation, ,

Fakunle, Damilola R; Ammann, Allison M; Sisak, Stephanie; Delman, Aaron M; Vaysburg, Dennis M; Lemon, Kristina; Silski, Latifa; Holm, Tammy; Shah, Shimul A; Quillin, Ralph C 2024. Sex Disparities in Academic Productivity and Rank Among Abdominal Transplant Faculty in the United States. Transplantation proceedings, 56 1, 260-264

Whitrock, Jenna N; Price, Adam D; Delman, Aaron M; Pratt, Catherine G; Silski, Latifa S; Lemon, Kristina H; Chang, Alex L; Cuffy, Madison C; Quillin, Ralph C; Shah, Shimul A 2024. Safety and use of late-turndown liver allografts to increase rate of transplantation. HPB : the official journal of the International Hepato Pancreato Biliary Association, 26 9, 1148-1154

Zingg, Sara-Catherine Whitney; Lemon, Kristina 2024. Donor Viral Hepatitis and Liver Transplantation. The Surgical clinics of North America, 104 1, 67-77

Rudolph, Mark; Shah, Shimul A; Quillin, Ralph; Lemon, Kristina; Olowokure, Olugbenga; Latif, Tahir; Sohal, Davendra 2023. Immune checkpoint inhibitors in liver transplant: a case series. Journal of gastrointestinal oncology, 14 2, 1141-1148

Ryan, Carrie E; Lambdin, Jacob; Shah, Shimul; Quillin, Ralph Cutler; Lemon, Kristina; Hernandez, Jonathan M; Sohal, Davendra 2023. Durvalumab and Tremelimumab for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Patients Listed for a Liver Transplant. Annals of surgical oncology, 30 2, 686-687

Whitrock, Jenna N; Chae, Ryan C; Kinzer, Alexandra B; Delman, Aaron M; Price, Adam D; Sisak, Stephanie; Carter, Michela M; Cuffy, Madison C; Lemon, Kristina H; Chang, Alex L; Silski, Latifa S; Quillin, Ralph C; Shah, Shimul A 2023. Long-term follow-up of temporary abdominal closure in complex abdomens during liver transplant. Surgery, 174 4, 996-1000

Whitrock, Jenna N; Lemon, Kristina H K; Shah, Shimul A 2023. Frailty as an Outcome Measurement Before and After Liver Transplant. JAMA surgery, 158 2, 138-139

Delman, Aaron M; Turner, Kevin M; Silski, Latifa S; Quillin, Ralph C; Estrada, Martha; Lemon, Kristina; Cuffy, Madison C; Shah, Shimul A 2022. The Kidney Transplant Equity Index: Improving Racial and Ethnic Minority Access to Transplantation. Annals of surgery, 276 3, 420-429