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Marty Sellers, MD

Marty Sellers, MD MPH, is a board-certified abdominal transplant surgeon at Emory University where he is actively involved in recipient and organ recovery surgeries. A career-long focus has been to maximize the organ donation potential in his Donation Service Area, which include talks and presentations at donor hospitals and local news outlets. This focus and passion were further utilized upon becoming associate medical director of LifeLink of Georgia in 2014, where he also serves on the LifeLink Foundation Board of Governors and Research Strategy and Research Guidance Committees. He is actively involved in donor management and donation-related research. He has led and contributed to efforts at LifeLink to adjust management protocols to increase number of donors and organs transplanted, as well as efforts to improve appropriateness of OPO system-wide metrics. These successful efforts have led to publications and presentations at multiple AOPO and international transplant meetings. He is also the Medical Director of LifeLink Foundation Tissue Bank, is the 2022-2023 Medical Advisor for the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO), and served on the UNOS OPO Committee from 2017-2020.