Dr. Linda C. Cendales, M.D.
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Dr. Linda C. Cendales, M.D. is recognized by Continental Who’s Who as a Pinnacle Professional in the field of Medicine as a 
result of her role as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at Emory School of Medicine, a leading national biomedical education and research institute.
Dr. Cendales is the only person in the United States with formal training in both hand and transplant surgery, and is the director of the Vascularized Composite Transplantation and Microsurgery Laboratory of the Emory Transplant Center. Dr. Cendales also directs a microsurgical techniques and skills training course that is available to Emory and non-Emory University physicians, fellows, residents, technicians and students. Earlier in her career, Dr. Cendales assisted in the organization of the first hand transplant team in the U.S. in Louisville, KY, which performed the first and second hand transplants in 1999 and 2001. She began conducting the first clinical trial of VCA in hand transplantation at Emory and in March 2011 and led the multi-disciplinary team that performed Georgia's first hand transplant.
The procedure was also the first in the Southeast and only the 14th such transplant in the country.
Dr. Cendales’ areas of expertise include Hand and Microsurgery; Transplant Surgery; Composite Allo-transplantation; Hand Surgery; Hand Transplantation; Tendon Injuries; Nerve Injuries; Carpel Tunnel
Syndrome; Trigger Finger; Nerve Compression; Hand Pain; Nailbed Injuries; Fractures; Finger Deformities; Surgical Drainage; Skin Grafting; Peripheral Nerve Repair and Reconstruction; Joint Replacement; Fabrication of Custom Splints; as well as Complex Upper Extremity Reconstruction. Throughout her educational career, Dr. Cendales earned her MD from the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana at Xochimilco Center, in Mexico. She completed a Residency in General Surgery at the
Hospital General “Dr. Manuel Gea Gonzalez,” in Mexico City, Mexico and served her Fellowship in Hand and Microsurgery at the National Institute for Orthopaedics in Mexico City, Mexico. Dr. Cendales has also undertaken Research and Clinical Fellowships in Hand and Microsurgery at the Christine M. Kleinert Institute, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, and the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.
Learn more at www.emoryhealthcare.org.
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