Surgery, Transplant Surgery Division

Feinberg School of Medicine, Feinberg Clinical

Research Profile

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  Kidney Transplantation

  
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  Liver Transplantation

  
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  Graft Rejection

  
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  Transplantation, Homologous

  
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  Graft Survival

  
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  Immunosuppressive Agents

  
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  Pancreas Transplantation

  
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  Tacrolimus

  
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  Immunosuppression

  
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  Living Donors

  

Publications

• 1.

  2013

  Lisa B. Vanwagner; Anton I. Skaro

  Program-specific reports: Implications and impact on program behavior

  Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation. 2013;18(2):210-215.

• 2.

  2013

  Hasan Yersiz; Coney Lee; Fady M. Kaldas; Johnny C. Hong; Abbas Rana; Gabriel T. Schnickel; Jason A. Wertheim; Ali Zarrinpar; Vatche G. Agopian; Jeffrey Gornbein; et al.

  Assessment of hepatic steatosis by transplant surgeon and expert pathologist: A prospective, double-blind evaluation of 201 donor livers

  Liver Transplantation. 2013;19(4):437-449.

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  2013

  Michael A. Zimmerman; Talia Baker; Nathan P. Goodrich; Chris Freise; Johnny C. Hong; Sean Kumer; Peter Abt; Adrian H. Cotterell; Benjamin Samstein; James E. Everhart; et al.

  Development, management, and resolution of biliary complications after living and deceased donor liver transplantation: A report from the adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation cohort study consortium

  Liver Transplantation. 2013;19(3):259-267.

Grants

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  Lonnie Shea; Phillip Messersmith; William Lowe Jr; Xunrong Luo; Xiaomin Zhang

  Encapsulating hydrogels with multi-scale porosity and localized delivery

  2/1/2013 - 1/31/2014

  Document ID: 17-2013-299

  Sponsor: Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International

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  Josh Levitsky; James Mathew

  Protocol # CRAD001AUSNC10T: The Effects of Everolimus with and without Tacrolimus and Mycophenolic Acid on Donor-Specific Tregs in the Treg-MLR

  1/11/2013 - 6/30/2014

  Document ID: CRAD001AUSNC10T

  Sponsor: Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation

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  Josh Levitsky; Zheng Jenny Zhang

  Delayed Chimerism Induction in Liver Transplants with Bioengineered Marrow Cells

  1/1/2013 - 12/31/2013

  Document ID: AgreementDate:1/14/13

  Sponsor: Northwestern Memorial Foundation

Journals

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  Publications
• Transplantation Proceedings
  182
• Transplantation
  157
• American Journal of Transplantation
  63
• Clinical Transplantation
  29
• Liver Transplantation
  28

Institutional Network

• Internal
  Shared Pub.
• Medicine, Hepatology Division
  50
• Medicine, Nephrology Division
  49
• Radiology
  30
• Medicine, Hematology Oncology Division
  22
• Pathology
  20

• External
  Shared Pub.
• University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
  240
• VA Medical Center
  56
• University of Miami
  39
• University of Chicago
  36
• University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  33
• London Health Sciences Centre
  33