Kristina Lemon

Kristina Honor Kathleen Lemon , MD

Associate Professor of Clinical

Medical Sciences Building

1556B

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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