Jamie Lee Curtis Chair in Transplantation Surgery
Professor of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine
Director of Pediatric Transplantation, Hillman Center for Pediatric Transplantation
Chief, Pediatric Transplantation
Research, Clinical, and/or Academic Interests
- Pediatric Intestinal Failure Consortium-developing a multi-center consortium for the evaluation and investigation of children with intestinal failure
- Clinical hepatocyte transplantation
- Clinical conduct of in vitro correlates in patients off immunosuppression
- Clinical conduct of split database registry in pediatric liver transplantation
- Pediatric unresectable liver tumor observatory
- International solid organ transplant tolerance multicenter registry
- In-vitro correlates of immune tolerance in patients off immunosuppression
- Weaning of immunosuppression in long term recipients of liver transplantation
- Evaluation of cytokine polymorphisms in predicting ability to withdraw immunosuppression after transplantation
- Development and evaluation of a bio-artificial liver device
- Clinical efficacy of sorbent suspension dialysis systems in advanced hepatic encephalopathy
- Use of hyperbaric oxygen in ameliorating ischemic injury after hepatic artery thrombosis in pediatric liver transplant
- Risk factors in pediatric small bowel transplantation
- Mechanisms and treatment of parenteral nutrition-related cholestasis in children with short gut syndrome
- Pediatric liver transplantation: causes of late graft loss and mortality
Education & Training
BS, Northwestern University
MD, Northwestern University Medical School