JosephAAwadMD

Gastroenterology • Nashville, TN

Advanced Endoscopic Interventional, Hepatology & Liver Transplantation

Professor, Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

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Office
3601 21st Ave S
Nashville, TN 37232
Phone+1 615-322-3000

Education & Training

Vanderbilt University Medical CenterFellowship, Gastroenterology, 1989 - 1992
Washington University/B-JH/SLCH ConsortiumResidency, Internal Medicine, 1985 - 1988
Washington University in St. Louis School of MedicineClass of 1985

Certifications & Licensure

TN State Medical License 1989 - 2025
American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine Gastroenterology
American Board of Internal Medicine Transplant Hepatology

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

76 citations
Expanding Heart Transplant in the Era of Direct-Acting Antiviral Therapy for Hepatitis C.
Kelly Schlendorf, Sandip Zalawadiya, Ashish S. Shah, Roman E. Perri, Mark Wigger
JAMA Cardiology. 2020-02-01
34 citations
Black patients with chronic hepatitis C have a lower sustained viral response rate than non‐Blacks with genotype 1, but the same with genotypes 2/3, and this is not ex...
Norbert Bräu, Edmund J. Bini, S. Currie, Hui Shen, Warren N. Schmidt
Journal of Viral Hepatitis. 2006-04-01
134 citations
Early outcomes using hepatitis C-positive donors for cardiac transplantation in the era of effective direct-acting anti-viral therapies.
Kelly Schlendorf, Sandip Zalawadiya, Ashish S. Shah, Mark Wigger, Chan Y. Chung
The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 2018-06-01

Press Mentions

Veteran Receives Rare Dual Transplant of Heart & Liver at VanderbiltJuly 11th, 2017