Kenneth J. Woodside, MD

Dr. Kenneth J. Woodside is a transplant surgeon and health services researcher, with his first job in the field at the age of 19.   Following fellowship, he was faculty at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland.  In 2015, he was appointed an Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Michigan in the Section of Transplant Surgery, where he also served as co-director of the Transplant Center Research Office. 

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His passion lies in global health.  Dr. Woodside has been an integral part of the team that has established transplant systems in Ethiopia, Brazil and Rwanda.  He is also a member of the International Pancreas and Islet Cell Transplant Association, serving on the Membership Committee, the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, serving as the current vice chair of the International Relations Committee, and the American Transplantation Society, serving on the Executive Council of the Kidney & Pancreas Community of Practice and the chair of the Obesity Workgroup. 

He has been elected a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the American Society of Transplantation, and the American Society of Nephrology.

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 Dr. Woodside has been an active educator, having taught and mentored numerous high school students, undergraduates, graduate and medical students, residents, and fellows.  He has received two teaching awards.  In Spring, 2022, he taught biology and human anatomy at Ann Arbor Academy, a high school for students with learning differences and disabilities.

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Dr. Woodside is an associate editor of the journals Transplantation and  Clinical Transplantation, as well as a section editor of Current Transplantation Reports.  He has published over 150 articles in professional journals and book chapters, as well as book reviews, photographs, educational videos, and essays.

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His research interests focus on kidney transplant outcomes and vascular access maturation.  From 2015 to 2019, he was an investigator with the federally funded United States Renal Data System (USRDS), serving as the lead surgeon for the transplant and vascular access groups.  

 

Moreover, Dr. Woodside is the chair of the Medical Advisory Board of Nephrodite, Inc, a company making an implantable dialysis device.  Dr. Woodside’s clinical interests focus on kidney and pancreas transplantation, immunosuppression management, organ donation and recovery, and open and endovascular dialysis access surgery.  

 

He is a transplant recovery surgeon at Sharing Hope of South Carolina since 2022 and at Gift of Life Michigan since 2023.  He founded both Academia Invisus LLC and KW Global Transplantation Consulting PLLC in 2022.