Dr. Kuehnert is the chief medical officer of MTF Biologics, a nonprofit tissue processor founded in 1987, and has been with the organization since 2017.  He is Professor of Medicine at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and is incoming Chair of the AATB Physicians Council. 

Before 2017, Dr. Kuehnert was Director of the Office of Blood, Organ, and Other Tissue Safety at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

 He completed his undergraduate education at the University of California at San Diego and received his medical degree from Columbia University’s College of Physicians & Surgeons.  He trained in Internal Medicine at Stanford University and the University of California at San Francisco, and in Infectious Diseases at Emory University.