Transplant Surgery
MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Surgery and Population Health Sciences, Inaugural Onyekwere E. Akwari Endowed Assistant and Professor in Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, USA
Lisa McElroy, MD, MS is an abdominal transplant surgeon and health services researcher at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina. She graduated from the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine as part of the Leadership in Medicine for the Underserved Program. She completed her general surgery residency training at the Medical College of Wisconsin and her clinical fellowship in abdominal transplant surgery at the University of Michigan.
Dr. McElroy is currently an Assistant Professor of Surgery and Population Health Sciences at Duke University. In 2022 she was selected as the Inaugural Onyekwere E. Akwari Endowed Assistant Professor in Surgery.
Dr. McElroy received her research training via a T32 postdoctoral research fellowship at Northwestern University, where she also earned a Master of Science in Health Services and Outcomes Research through the Institute for Public Health and Medicine. Her research examines the influence of organizational characteristics on clinical outcomes of high cost, high acuity patients. Her current research projects, which aim to improve equity in access to transplantation by reducing bias in processes of care, are funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the American Surgical Association Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health. She has authored more than 80 peer reviewed scientific papers.
Dr. McElroy serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Transplantation, American Journal of Surgery and Clinical Transplantation. She is the vice chair of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons grants committee and chair of the Society of Black Academic Surgeons publications committee.
Selected publications from PubMed
Association of a new waitlist mortality metric with likelihood of delisting among kidney transplant candidates.
Ross-Driscoll K, Di M, Buford J, Adler JT, Fridell J, McElroy L, Patzer RE
Am J Transplant. 2026 Jul;26(7):1693-1702 doi: 10.1016/j.ajt.2026.02.013.
An overview of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the United States transplant surgery workforce.
Muñoz N, Obayemi JE, Chan N, McElroy LM
Curr Probl Surg. 2025 Apr;65:101732 doi: 10.1016/j.cpsurg.2025.101732.
Health Disparity Metrics for Transplant Centers: Theoretical and Practical Considerations.
Ross-Driscoll K, Adams A, Caicedo J, Gordon EJ, Kirk AD, McElroy LM, Taber D, Patzer R
Transplantation. 2024 Sep 1;108(9):1823-1825 doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000004973.
Quality measures in pre-liver transplant care by the Practice Metrics Committee of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.
Brahmania M, Kuo A, Tapper EB, Volk ML, Vittorio JM, Ghabril M, Morgan TR, Kanwal F, Parikh ND, Martin P, Mehta S, Winder GS, Im GY, Goldberg D, Lai JC, Duarte-Rojo A, Paredes AH, Patel AA, Sahota A, McElroy LM, Thomas C, Wall AE, Malinis M, Aslam S, Simonetto DA, Ufere NN, Ramakrishnan S, Flynn MM, Ibrahim Y, Asrani SK, Serper M
Hepatology. 2024 Sep 1;80(3):742-753 doi: 10.1097/HEP.0000000000000870.
Pragmatic strategies to address health disparities along the continuum of care in chronic liver disease.
Brahmania M, Rogal S, Serper M, Patel A, Goldberg D, Mathur A, Wilder J, Vittorio J, Yeoman A, Rich NE, Lazo M, Kardashian A, Asrani S, Spann A, Ufere N, Verma M, Verna E, Simpson D, Schold JD, Rosenblatt R, McElroy L, Wadhwani SI, Lee TH, Strauss AT, Chung RT, Aiza I, Carr R, Yang JM, Brady C, Fortune BE
Hepatol Commun. 2024 May 1;8(5) doi: 10.1097/HC9.0000000000000413.
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