Transplant Hepatology Fellowship

 

In addition to teaching that occurs through formal rounds and clinical rotations, our fellows receive education through:

• Weekly transplant conferences
• Monthly journal club
• Pathology conferences twice a month
• Didactic sessions
• Tumor board conferences twice a month

Our fellows participate in a wide variety of research projects. We have a very active research program that resulted in 73 papers and 44 presentations during national and international conferences in 2019.  Fellows get the opportunity to participate in retrospective and prospective, qualitative and quantitative studies, and multicenter studies. They also learn about both industry and federally supported trials. Currently, there are 86 physician - initiated ongoing studies as well as 20 industry or NIH funded studies.

Rotations through both inpatient and outpatient settings expose fellows to a wide range of liver pathology. Fellows have the opportunity to work with multiple faculty members while learning how to manage patients with a variety of acute and chronic liver diseases. In addition, fellows rotate through the interdisciplinary hepatobiliary clinic where in conjunction with our surgery, oncology and interventional radiology colleagues, hepatology fellows care for patients with benign and malignant liver lesions.

Transplant hepatologists and fellows evaluate candidates for liver transplantation.  Cases are discussed at weekly liver transplant selection committee meetings, which are attended by transplant surgeons, hepatologists, and other specialists on the hospital’s medical staff, including social workers and transplant coordinators.

Fellows actively participate in the work up of pre-transplant candidates and management of patients listed for transplantation.

Liver transplant patients transition back to the care of the transplant hepatologist after transplant surgery. Fellows continue to care for liver transplant recipients during this post-transplant phase, catering to medical needs with emphasis on immunosuppression and management of any potential complications. Fellows manage post-transplant patients in both inpatient and outpatient settings.

Our program has an active living donor program. Fellows participate in the workup of potential donors and have the opportunity to care for patients who receive live donor liver transplants. Fellows will  participate in the management of any potential complications that arise in this unique patient population.