• Gender Male

About / Overview

Dr. Alan Koffron is surgical director for the Erlanger Kidney Transplant Center. In this role he helps oversee quality initiatives within the program, maintenance of translation protocols, and interaction with the global transplant community.

Dr. Koffron earned his medical degree from the University of Iowa College of Medicine. Following medical school, he completed residency training in general surgery at Chicago Medical School University of Health Sciences. Dr. Koffron completed two fellowships – a multiple-organ transplant surgery and hepatobiliary surgery fellowship at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago and a pediatric liver transplant surgery and hepatobiliary surgery fellowship at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago.

Throughout his clinical career, Dr. Koffron has received many honors and awards, including residency, fellowship, research, teaching, surgical advancement and clinical excellence and innovation awards. He has also been awarded media honors such as “Top Doctor” or “Top Surgeon” from Chicago and Detroit magazines for several consecutive years.  

Education / Credentials

• MD Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa - Iowa City, IA
• Residency - General Surgery Chicago Medical School University of Health Sciences
• Fellowship - Multiple-organ Transplant Surgery and Hepatobiliary Surgery Northwestern University Medical School - Chicago, IL
• Fellowship - Pediatric Liver Transplant Surgery and Hepatobiliary Surgery Children’s Memorial Hospital - Chicago, IL

Locations

Erlanger Kidney Transplant Center

• 979 East 3rd Street, Suite B-1002, Chattanooga, TN 37403
• 423-778-2521