Alton Brad Farris III MD MBA

Summary

• Alton B.(Brad) Farris, MD, MBA, is Director of the Laboratory of Nephropathology and Electron Microscopy at Emory University Hospital and a Professor in the Emory Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. He participates in kidney, gastrointestinal, and liver pathology clinical services; and his research interests include transplantation pathology and the application of artificial intelligence/machine learning to whole slide images. Recently, along these lines, he has helped co-lead the Banff Foundation for Allograft Pathology Digital Pathology Working Group. He has served as the pathologist for National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Trials in Organ Transplantation (CTOT) trials. His past research also includes topics in neoplastic pathology with which he has collaborated with the American Cancer Society, and he is a member of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University. He jointed Emory after residency, chief residency, and fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and graduate assistantship at Harvard Medical School. Almost all his work has extended from the "bench" to the "bedside" with his clinical and research colleagues, extending from more basic science animal models, including nonhuman primate studies, to more clinical/translational studies. His clinical, research, and teaching goals as a pathologist are to correlate pathologic parameters to clinical data, treatment, and outcome, particularly in his fields of renal, gastrointestinal, and transplantation pathology; and ultimately, he aims to make the world a better place by contributing to enhanced, value-added patient care.