DOM In the News
Read about how the Department of Medicine is responding to the outbreak of the coronavirus respiratory illness COVID-19. See related COVID-19 publications.
Department of Medicine Grand Rounds - Danielle Brandman, MD, MAS and Shareef Syed, MBChB, MRCS
Session moderated by Bob Wachter
What’s new in the world of liver transplantation? We will discuss the rapidly changing epidemiology of liver transplant causes, the surprising news about transplant rates and long-term outcomes, and how to improve the likelihood of successful transplants. Danielle Brandman, associate professor and director of the UCSF Hepatology Fellowship Program, and Shareef Syed, assistant professor of surgery and director of the UCSF Abdominal Transplant Fellowship Program, will take us on a tour of the landscape of liver transplantation.
Speakers:
Danielle Brandman, MD, MAS, is an assistant professor of medicine and a hepatologist, specializing in treating patients needing liver transplants. Her research interests include nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and post-transplant metabolic syndrome. She is also the director of the Hepatology Fellowship Program and chief of service of inpatient hepatology at UCSF.
Shareef Syed, MBChB, MRCS, is a general surgeon specializing in abdominal transplantation. Shareef is also associate director of the UCSF Surgical Skills Center and director of the UCSF Abdominal Transplant Fellowship Program.
We are pleased to welcome you back to in-person Grand Rounds. The UCSF community can join us at Parnassus at HSW-300 (lunch provided); our extended community can still watch live on Zoom or at their convenience on our YouTube channel.
Zoom Information:
Join from a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android device by clicking:
https://ucsf.zoom.us/j/92507991004?pwd=UGg0NU0xS2R0Q1RtREpSK2UzUyt2dz09
Webinar ID: 925 0799 1004
Passcode: 500062