Associate Professor of Transplantation Jayme Locke, M.D., has been named a James IV Association of Surgeons Traveler for 2017-18. Locke is the director of the Incompatible Kidney Transplant Program, as well as the director of Transplant Analytics, Informatics & Quality.

The James IV Traveling Fellowship is designed to promote communication and collaboration in the surgical community. The fellowship covers a four-week period and pays a flat stipend of $15,000.

The James IV Association of Surgeons sponsors visiting fellowship opportunities for outstanding young surgeons from and to member countries. These travelling fellowships not only promote the exchange of surgical knowledge, but also foster the kind of friendships that have meant so much to those who founded the Association and those who have since joined them.