News & Events

The Atlantic reports on the difficulties in the current climate of conducting donor-intervention research due to issues of informed consent, disagreements over what constitutes human subject research, and conflicting views of Institutional Review Boards (IRB) spread across multiple centers with patients putatively...

James M. Gardner, M.D., Ph.D. and Nicole Conkling, M.D. have been awarded prestigious research grants by the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) for its 2017 funding cycle. Dr. Gardner, who just completed his Chief Residency in General Surgery at UCSF and is a rising fellow in the Division of Transplant...

Becker's Hospital Review reports that the UCSF Kidney, Liver, and Lung Transplant Programs each received the highest score "5", "Better than Expected" for transplant outcomes*, based on the most recent data from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR). These scores were evaluated using SRTR's new "...

Andrew Posselt, MD, PhD is a transplant and bariatric surgeon and professor of surgery at UCSF. Dr. Posselt performs kidney, liver, pancreas and islet transplants. He is also among a handful surgeons in the country who also performs bariatric surgery for patients who would otherwise be transplant candidates, but...

The NIH has awarded the UCSF Department of Surgery a T32 training grant , “Filling a Void of Research Training for Transplant Surgeons” (FAVOR). The grant, awarded in August 2016, provides annual funding in the amount of $156,602 for in-depth training of three general surgery residents with an interest in...

UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital have launched a new publication, "Transplant News", providing " a more comprehensive approach to communicating the latest breakthroughs available to the patients and families we serve" in the words of John P. Roberts, M.D., Professor and Chief of the UCSF...

UCSF News reports that Jennifer Lai, MD, MBA, a general and transplant hepatologist and assistant clinical professor in the UCSF Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, has been honored for her "patient-oriented clinical research within the core principles of geriatrics (i.e., frailty, disability, lag-time...

Successful downstaging of selected patients with HCC (hepatocellular carcinoma) before liver transplantation leads to excellent 5-year recurrence-free and overall survival rates post-transplant, according to a just-reported multicenter study led by UCSF Transplant Program investigators. Medscape Medical News...

UCSF News reports on a study that found that the vast majoirty of liver transplant candidates who died or were delisted from the transplant list had previously received one or more liver donation offers: Most liver transplant candidates who died or were removed from the transplant list actually received one or...

UCSF News report on a joint collaboration between UCSF and Walgreen that provides blood pressure testing at no charge to living kidney donors. While recipients of living donor kidney transplants receive steady follow-up care, the living donors themselves also need to be monitored. To make follow-up care more...

The UCSF Transplant Program will have a strong presence at the World Transplant Congress (WTC), to be held July 26–31, 2014 at Moscone West Convention Center in San Francisco. The WTC brings together the members of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS), The Transplantation Society (TTS) and the...

A recent paper in the journal Nature, reported by UCSF News by a research team including Associate Professor Holger Willenbring, M.D., Ph.D. and Senior Resident Jack Harbell, M.D., a former postdoctoral fellow in the Willenbring lab, reports a new method of cellular reprogramming with potential for treating liver...

"The sun wasn't up at 5 o'clock Wednesday morning, but a new day had already dawned for Matthew Ouimet. Matthew, a 2-year-old Antioch boy who had waited 15 months for a life-sustaining kidney and liver transplant, had his new organs. Dr. John Roberts took the lead on the liver transplant, and Dr. Peter Stock, who...