Associate Professor, Surgery, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
General Surgery
Dr. Douglas A. Hale, MD
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Douglas Hale is an expert in the field of General Surgery. He researched medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine. Georgetown University School of Medicine is ranked 49/84 in Research/PrimaryCare. He received awards:"Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification" and "Fellow (FACS)". Douglas A. Hale, MD is a published doctor. He has 64 publications published. The most current publication "Use of pharmacologic immunosuppression to augment the specific unresponsiveness (tolerance) to skin allografts induced by donor-specific bone marrow in antilymphocyte ..." He accepts all Medicare patients.
Publications
- Associations of ABCB1 3435C>T and IL-10-1082G>A Polymorphisms With Long-Term Sirolimus Dose Requirements in Renal Transplant Patients.
- Chemokines and their receptors in human renal allotransplantation.
- Basic transplantation immunology.
- Results from a human renal allograft tolerance trial evaluating T-cell depletion with alemtuzumab combined with deoxyspergualin.
- Surgical transplant physical examination: correlation of renal resistance index and biopsy-proven chronic allograft nephropathy.
- Measurement of chimerism in cynomolgus monkeys using human-specific short tandem repeat-based assay.
- Solid organ transplantation at the National Institutes of Health: development of a research-based transplantation practice.
- Targeted T-cell depletion or CD154 blockade generates mixed hemopoietic chimerism and donor-specific tolerance in mice treated with sirolimus and donor bone marrow.
- Potent skin allograft survival prolongation using a committed progenitor fraction of bone marrow in mice.
- Rabbit antithymocyte globulin induction and sirolimus monotherapy supports prolonged islet allograft function in a nonhuman primate islet transplantation model.
- Results from a human renal allograft tolerance trial evaluating the humanized CD52-specific monoclonal antibody alemtuzumab (CAMPATH-1H).
- Delayed autotransplantation of a solitary kidney facilitated by pump perfusion preservation.
- Studies investigating pretransplant donor-specific blood transfusion, rapamycin, and the CD154-specific antibody IDEC-131 in a nonhuman primate model of skin allotrans...
- Molecular and immunohistochemical characterization of the onset and resolution of human renal allograft ischemia-reperfusion injury.
- Immunologic mechanisms in tolerance produced in mice with nonradiation-based lymphoablation and donor-specific bone marrow.
- Pediatric appendectomy.
- Effect of tension-free vaginal tape procedure on urodynamic continence indices.
- Factors that influence voiding function after the tension-free vaginal tape procedure for stress urinary incontinence.
- Appendectomy: a contemporary appraisal.
- Voiding cystourethrography in female stress incontinence.
- Measurement of CP-violating asymmetries in B0 decays to CP eigenstates.
- Selective digital enhancement of conventional film mammography.
- Primary cardiac valve tumors.
- Computerized tomography in the evaluation of myasthenia gravis.
- Complete colonic obstruction caused by a sigmoid colon cancer incarcerated in an inguinal Hernia sac.
- Reversibility of deoxycholate-induced cellular hypercalcemia in rabbit gastric mucosal cells.
- Long-term impact of previous breast biopsy on breast Cancer screening modalities.
- Non-invasive monitoring of tissue oxygenation during laparoscopic donor nephrectomy.
- Idiopathic intracranial hypertension following kidney transplantation: a case report and review of the literature.
- The Art and Science of Immunosuppression: the Fifth Annual American Society of Transplant Surgeon''s State-of-the-Art Winter Symposium.
- Small Intestinal transplantation in nonhuman primates.
- Pharmacokinetics of low and maintenance dose valganciclovir in kidney transplant recipients.
- The enigma of tolerance and chimerism: variable role of T cells and chimerism in induction of tolerance with bone marrow.
- Prolongation of skin allograft survival in mice treated with CTLA-4 Ig in combination with rapamycin or cyclosporine.
- Pancreatic islet transplantation using the nonhuman primate (rhesus) model predicts that the portal vein is superior to the celiac artery as the islet infusion site.
- Preclinical evaluation of tolerance induction protocols and islet transplantation in non-human primates.
- Extended skin allo- and xenograft survival in mice treated with rapamycin, antilymphocyte serum, and donor-specific bone marrow transfusion.
- Use of pharmacologic immunosuppression to augment the specific unresponsiveness (tolerance) to skin allografts induced by donor-specific bone marrow in antilymphocyte ...
- Molecular evaluation of BK polyomavirus nephropathy.
- Portal venous donor-specific transfusion in conjunction with sirolimus prolongs renal allograft survival in nonhuman primates.
- Autoimmune thyroid Disease after renal transplantation using depletional induction with alemtuzumab.
- Successful renal transplantation in patients with chronic granulomatous Disease.
- Assessment of cadaveric organ viability during pulsatile perfusion using infrared imaging.
- Establishment of stable multilineage hematopoietic chimerism and donor-specific tolerance without irradiation.
- Determination of an improved sirolimus (rapamycin)-based regimen for induction of allograft tolerance in mice treated with antilymphocyte serum and donor-specific bone...
- Use of CTLA4-Ig in combination with conventional immunosuppressive agents to prolong allograft survival.
- Superiority of sirolimus (rapamycin) over cyclosporine in augmenting allograft and xenograft survival in mice treated with antilymphocyte serum and donor-specific bone...
- Efficacy and toxicity of a protocol using sirolimus, tacrolimus and daclizumab in a nonhuman primate renal allotransplant model.
- Kidney transplantation with rabbit antithymocyte globulin induction and sirolimus monotherapy.
- The clinical application of monoclonal antibody therapies in renal transplantation.
- Successful renal transplantation in a patient with congenital generalized lipodystrophy: a case report.
- The road to tolerance: renal transplant tolerance induction in nonhuman primate studies and clinical trials.
- Biological effects of induction immunosuppression.
- Strategies for minimizing immunosuppression in kidney transplantation.
- Functionally significant renal allograft rejection is defined by transcriptional criteria.
- Immunocompetent T-cells with a memory-like phenotype are the dominant cell type following antibody-mediated T-cell depletion.
- IDEC-131 (anti-CD154), sirolimus and donor-specific transfusion facilitate operational tolerance in non-human primates.
- Induction of transplantation tolerance in non-human primate preclinical models.
- Objective, real-time, intraoperative assessment of renal perfusion using infrared imaging.
- Low dose busulfan facilitates chimerism and tolerance in a murine model.
- Obesity following kidney transplantation and steroid avoidance immunosuppression.
- Evaluation of tacrolimus abbreviated area-under-the-curve monitoring in renal transplant patients who are potentially at risk for adverse events.
- Functional imaging of the pelvic floor.
Schools
Georgetown University
Procedures Preformed
- Arteriovenous Shunt Creation
- Colectomy
- Embolectomy, Thrombectomy, or Vessel Exploration
- Intestinal Transplant (incl. Enterectomy)
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Conditions Treated
- Atelectasis
- Cholecystitis and Gallstones
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Incisional Hernia
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Doctors Specialties
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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William Beaumont Army Medical Center -
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1043253537 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | HALE | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | DOUGLAS | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 372324750 | |
| NPPES Provider State | TN | |
| Specialty Description | General Surgery | |
| Total Claim Count | 14.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1043253537 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | HALE |
| First Name Of The Provider | DOUGLAS |
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