Journal of Clinical and Experimental Transplantation
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Stuart K Williams

Scientific director of the Cardiovascular Innovation Institute

Biography

Stuart K. Williams, Ph.D. is the scientific director of the Cardiovascular Innovation Institute, a partnership between the University of Louisville and Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's Health Care, and a professor in the Department of Surgery. An internationally-known expert in biomedical engineering, he was recruited to the CII and the University of Louisville in July 2007.

His research spans the fields of cardiovascular bioengineering, biomaterials and diabetes and is funded by the National Institutes of Health, the United States Army, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and several private corporations.

Publications

Technical Modifications to Improve Islet Yield from Chronic Pancreatitis Pancreas (CPP) for Islet Auto-Transplantation (IAT)

Surgical removal of the pancreas in patients with intractable chronic pancreatitis will potentially mitigate the long standing suffering of abdominal pain and improve the quality of life. Nonetheless, the induction of iatrogenic diabetes from surgery becomes irrevocable as the insulin producing islet cells are removed. This novel process of islet i... Read More»

Maheswaran Dhanasekaran, Gopalakrishnan Loganathan, Siddharth Narayanan, William Tucker, Aravinth Prasanth Jawahar, Ankit Patel, Venugopal Subhashree, Sri Prakash Mokshagundam, Stuart K Williams, Michael J Hughes and Appakalai N Balamurugan

Mini Review: J Clin Exp Transplant 2017

DOI: 10.4172/2475-7640.1000112

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