Nicole Turgeon, MD, FACS

Professor and Chief of Transplant Surgery, Dell Medical School

Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care

Dr. Turgeon earned her medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School and her bachelor’s in biology from Brown University. She completed a residency in general surgery at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and a fellowship in multi-organ abdominal transplant surgery at the University of Wisconsin.

Dr. Turgeon currently serves as Chief of Abdominal Transplant Surgery at Dell Seton Medical Center. She joined the Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin to initiate and build an abdominal transplant program. In her previous role as a member of the Emory University faculty, she was an active kidney and pancreas transplant surgeon, researcher, teacher, and mentor to undergraduates, medical students, residents, and fellows. She served as Director of the Living Donor Program, which included the development of Emory’s nationally prominent role in the National Kidney Registry paired donor exchange program. She was also Surgical Director of the Kidney Transplant Program at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. She has been actively engaged in organ donation efforts and served as an Assistant Medical Director at Lifelink of Georgia Organ Procurement Organization. She has a strong commitment to serving the transplant community through the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) regional and national committee participation and has been a member of the UNOS Kidney Committee for more than 8 years, recently completing her tenure as Chair. She is Ex-officio of the UNOS Policy Oversight Committee and currently serves as President-Elect on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Transplantation. She has also served as an investigator and principal investigator on numerous grants funded by the NIH and other organizations. Her academic interests include organ donation and utilization, adult and pediatric renal transplantation, pancreatic transplantation, and HIV transplantation.