Background
Dr. Russell Wesson is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in the Division of Transplant Surgery.
His areas of clinical expertise include Hepatobiliary surgery, Liver, Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Living Kidney donation and transplantation for colorectal metastasis.
Dr. Wesson completed his General Surgery Residency in 2016 at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He started as an intern at Johns Hopkins in 2009 after receiving his medical degree from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
After his residency, Dr. Wesson completed the American Society of Transplant Surgery accredited Fellowship in Abdominal Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery at Johns Hopkins. He continued on faculty with the division of transplant surgery.
Dr. Wesson's academic and research focuses on basic and translational research within the context of liver and kidney transplantation and organ injury.