Debra Sudan, MD is a Professor of Surgery, Chief of the Division of Abdominal Transplant at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Sudan received her MD from Wright State University in 1994. She completed her general surgery training at Wright State and went on to University of Nebraska Medical Center to complete her fellowship in Abdominal Transplant Surgery. Dr. Sudan remained on staff at UNMC where she went on to become a Professor of Surgery. 

During her time in Nebraska she participated as a senior surgeon in one of the largest and most successful small bowel transplant programs in the world and directed the intestinal rehabilitation program. In 2008, Dr. Sudan joined the staff at Duke University Medical Center where she assumed the role of Division Chief for the Abdominal Transplant Surgery Programs (Liver, Pancreas and Kidney). Soon after arriving she successfully led Duke in the development of the first Small Bowel Transplant program in North Carolina and currently the only active intestine transplant program in the Southeast. Dr. Sudan has the largest published experience of intestinal lengthening procedures in the world of literature.