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