Juliet Emamaullee, MD, PhD

Dr. Emamaullee completed her PhD in Immunology at the University of Alberta in 2005, and her involvement in the clinical transplant program inspired her to pursue a career in medicine. During her time in medical school, she was involved in research as a JDRF/ASTS funded postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. James Shapiro, director of the Clinical Islet Transplant Program at the University of Alberta. Dr. Emamaullee completed her residency in General Surgery at Emory University in Atlanta, GA in 2015. She returned to the University of Alberta for fellowship training in transplant and hepatobiliary surgery and joined the faculty of USC upon completion in the fall of 2017.

Dr. Emamaullee has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Canadian Medical Association Award for Young Leaders in Medicine. Her research interests include living-donor liver transplantation, Hepatitis C and its impact on hepatocellular carcinoma, and tolerance strategies to improve allograft survival.