
Kristina Honor Kathleen Lemon , MD
Associate Professor of Clinical
Medical Sciences Building
1556B
COM Surgery Transplant - 0519
Education
BA: Eckerd College St. Petersburg, FL, 2005 (Psychology, Minor in Biology and Chemistry)
MD: University of Western Ontario London, Ontario Canada, 2010
Graduate Diploma: Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's, Newfoundland Canada, 2015 (Clinical Epidemiology)
Certifications
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (Certification Date: 06-30-2015 )
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
Specialities
Surgery-Transplant
Publications
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, , More Information
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 More Information
Zingg, Sara-Catherine Whitney; Lemon, Kristina (2024. ) Donor Viral Hepatitis and Liver Transplantation.The Surgical clinics of North America, , 104 (1 ) ,67-77 More Information
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 More Information
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 More Information
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 More Information
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 More Information
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 More Information
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 More Information