Jennifer Lai, MD, MBA

Pruinelli L, Balakrishnan K, Ma S, Li Z, Wall A, Lai JC, Schold JD, Pruett T, Simon G. Transforming liver transplant allocation with artificial intelligence and machine learning: a systematic review. BMC medical informatics and decision making 2025. PMID: 39994720

Runge A, Loeb B, Shui AM, Fenton C, Lai J, Rubin J. Cannabis and liver transplant in the era of legalization: Effects of pre-transplant cannabis use on postoperative opioid use and transplant outcomes. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2025. PMID: 39976576

Cheung T, Squires JE, Bautista B, Milionis C, Prugh J, Hsu E, Ebel NH, Campbell K, Vittorio J, Bucuvalas JC, Gottlieb LM, Lyles CR, Lai JC, Wadhwani SI. Co-producing a health advocate intervention for pediatric liver transplant recipients using human-centered design. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2025. PMID: 39976578

Zhang GY, Cortella A, Lai JC, Rubin JB. Erratum: Pain in chronic liver disease compared to other chronic conditions: Results from a nationally representative cohort study. Hepatology communications 2025. PMID: 39969480

Choudhury A, Kulkarni AV, Arora V, Soin AS, Dokmeci AK, Chowdhury A, Koshy A, Duseja A, Kumar A, Mishra AK, Patwa AK, Sood A, Roy A, Shukla A, Chan A, Krag A, Mukund A, Mandot A, Goel A, Butt AS, Sahney A, Shrestha A, Cárdenas A, Di Giorgio A, Arora A, Anand AC, Dhawan A, Jindal A, Saraya A, Srivastava A, Kumar A, Kaewdech A, Pande A, Rastogi A, Valsan A, Goel A, Kumar A, Singal AK, Tanaka A, Coilly A, Singh A, Meena BL, Jagadisan B, Sharma BC, Lal BB, Eapen CE, Yaghi C, Kedarisetty CK, Kim CW, Panackel C, Yu C, Kalal CR, Bihari C, Huang CH, Vasishtha C, Jansen C, Strassburg C, Lin CY, Karvellas CJ, Lesmana CRA, Philips CA, Shawcross D, Kapoor D, Agrawal D, Payawal DA, Praharaj DL, Jothimani D, Song DS, Kim DJ, Kim DS, Zhongping D, Karim F, Durand F, Shiha GE, D'Amico G, Lau GK, Pati GK, Narro GEC, Lee GH, Adali G, Dhakal GP, Szabo G, Lin HC, Li H, Nair HK, Devarbhavi H, Tevethia H, Ghazinian H, Ilango H, Yu HL, Hasan I, Fernandez J, George J, Behari J, Fung J, Bajaj J, Benjamin J, Lai JC, Jia J, Hu JH, Chen JJ, Hou JL, Yang JM, Chang J, Trebicka J, Kalf JC, Sollano JD, Varghese J, Arab JP, Li J, Reddy KR, Raja K, Panda K, Kajal K, Kumar K, Madan K, Kalista KF, Thanapirom K, Win KM, Suk KT, Devadas K, Lesmana LA, Kamani L, Premkumar M, Niriella MA, Al Mahtab M, Yuen MF, Sayed MH, Alla M, Wadhawan M, Sharma MK, Sahu M, Prasad M, Muthiah MD, Schulz M, Bajpai M, Reddy MS, Praktiknjo M, Yu ML, Prasad M, Sharma M, Elbasiony M, Eslam M, Azam MG, Rela M, Desai MS, Vij M, Mahmud N, Choudhary NS, Marannan NK, Ormeci N, Saraf N, Verma N, Nakayama N, Kawada N, Goyal O, Yokosuka O, Rao PN, Angeli P, Parikh P, Kamath PS, Thuluvath PJ, Lingohr P, Ranjan P, Bhangui P, Rathi P, Sakhuja P, Puri P, Ning Q, Dhiman RK, Kumar R, Vijayaraghavan R, Khanna R, Maiwall R, Mohanka R, Moreau R, Gani RA, Loomba R, Mehtani R, Rajaram RB, Hamid SS, Palnitkar S, Lal S, Biswas S, Chirapongsathorn S, Agarwal S, Sachdeva S, Saigal S, Kumar SE, Violeta S, Singh SP, Mochida S, Mukewar S, Alam S, Lim SG, Alam S, Venishetty S, Sundaram SS, Shetty S, Bhatia S, Singh SA, Kottilil S, Strasser S, Shasthry SM, Maung ST, Tan SS, Treeprasertsuk S, Asthana S, Manekeller S, Gupta S, Acharya SK, K C S, Maharshi S, Asrani S, Dadhich S, Taneja S, Giri S, Singh S, Chen T, Gupta T, Kanda T, Tanwandee T, Piratvishuth T, Spengler U, Prasad VGM, Midha V, Rakhmetova V, Arroyo V, Sood V, Br VK, Wong VW, Pamecha V, Singh V, Dayal VM, Saraswat VA, Kim W, Jafri W, Gu W, Jun WY, Qi X, Chawla YK, Kim YJ, Shi Y, Abbas Z, Kumar G, Shiina S, Wei L, Omata M, Sarin SK, APASL-ACLF Research Consortium (AARC) for APASL-ACLF working party. Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF): the 'Kyoto Consensus'-steps from Asia. Hepatology international 2025. PMID: 39961976

Markakis GE, Lai JC, Karakousis ND, Papatheodoridis GV, Psaltopoulou T, Merli M, Sergentanis TN, Cholongitas E. Sarcopenia As a Predictor of Survival and Complications of Patients With Cirrhosis After Liver Transplantation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Clinical transplantation 2025. PMID: 39876624

Bruno BJ, Weavil JC, Ogle J, Chidambaram N, Carey EJ, Danford CJ, Fricker ZP, Galati JS, Lee WM, Mantry PS, Shetty K, DelConte A, Patel MV, Lai JC, Sanyal AJ. Oral LPCN 1148 improves sarcopenia and hepatic encephalopathy in male patients with cirrhosis: A randomized, placebo-controlled phase 2 trial. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2024. PMID: 39513970

Jutras G, Mehta N, Lai JC. Differential aging trends among Liver Transplant candidates with and without hepatocellular carcinoma. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2025. PMID: 39819830

Cham S, Pozzar RA, Horowitz N, Feltmate C, Matulonis UA, Lai JC, Wright AA. The pervasive impact of frailty on ovarian cancer care and the role of prehabilitation: Qualitative perspectives of key stakeholders. Journal of geriatric oncology 2024. PMID: 39708401

Wadhwani SI, Squires JE, Hsu E, Gupta N, Campbell K, Zielsdorf S, Vittorio J, Desai DM, Ebel NH, Shui AM, Bucuvalas JC, Gottlieb LM, Lyles CR, Lai JC, Society of Pediatric Liver Transplantation. Material economic hardship is associated with adverse 1-year outcomes after pediatric liver transplantation: Prospective cohort results from the multi-center SOCIAL-Tx study. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2024. PMID: 39692470

Zhang GY, Cortella A, Lai JC, Rubin JB. Pain in chronic liver disease compared to other chronic conditions: Results from a contemporary nationally representative cohort study. Hepatology communications 2024. PMID: 39670874

Wong F, Reddy KR, Tandon P, Lai JC, Garcia-Tsao G, O'Leary JG, Biggins SW, Vagas HE, Thacker L, Kamath PS, Bajaj JS, NACSELD III Study Group. Sex differences in patient-reported outcomes and perception of ascites burden amongst outpatients with decompensated cirrhosis and ascites.: Sex Differences in Ascites Burden Perception. The American journal of gastroenterology 2024. PMID: 39601412

Donlan J, Kaplan A, Noll A, Pintro K, Horick N, Zeng C, Edelen M, Soetan Z, Comrie C, Indriolo T, Li L, Zhu E, Armstrong ME, Thompson LL, Zhou J, Diop MS, Mason N, Engel KG, Rowland M, Kenimer S, O'Brien K, Lai JC, Jackson V, Chung RT, El-Jawahri A, Ufere NN. Prognostic Communication, Symptom Burden, Psychological Distress, and Quality of Life Among Patients with Decompensated Cirrhosis. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association 2024. PMID: 39571876

Lai M, Fenton C, Rubin J, Huang CY, Pletcher M, Lai JC, Cullaro G, Ge J. Clinical Sentiment Analysis by Large Language Models Enhances the Prediction of Hepatorenal Syndrome in Decompensated Cirrhosis. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2024. PMID: 39606343

Hu K, Sedki M, Kwong A, Kesselman A, Kolli KP, Morelli G, Spengler E, Said A, Lai J, Desai A, Paul S, Frenette C, Fallon M, German M, Verna E, Boike J, Gregory D, Thornburg B, VanWagner L, Goel A, Advancing Liver Therapeutic Approaches (ALTA) Study Group. Portal Hypertensive Gastropathy and MELD-Na Score Predict Recurrent Gastrointestinal Bleeding After TIPSS: An ALTA Group Study. Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics 2024. PMID: 39501554

Klepper A, Kung A, Vazquez SE, Mitchell A, Mann S, Zorn K, Avila-Vargas I, Kari S, Tekeste M, Castro J, Lee B, Duarte M, Khalili M, Yang M, Wolters P, Price J, Perito E, Feng S, Maher JJ, Lai J, Weiler-Normann C, Lohse AW, DeRisi J, Tana M. Novel autoantibody targets identified in patients with autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) by PhIP-Seq reveals pathogenic insights. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2023. PMID: 37398174

Ufere NN, Zeng C, Donlan J, Shalev D, Kaplan A, Noll A, Liu A, Pintro K, Horick N, Indriolo T, Li L, Zhu E, Armstrong ME, Mason N, Engel KG, Rowland M, O'Brien K, Kenimer S, Diop MS, Jackson V, Lai JC, Chung RT, Jacobs JM, Edelen M, El-Jawahri A. Psychological Distress is Prevalent and Interdependent Among Patients with Decompensated Cirrhosis and Their Caregivers. The American journal of gastroenterology 2024. PMID: 39450861

Lai JC, Ring M, Dhruva A, Yeh GY. A patient-centered approach to dietary supplements for patients with chronic liver disease. Hepatology communications 2024. PMID: 39445862

Far A, Bastani A, Lee A, Gologorskaya O, Huang CY, Pletcher MJ, Lai JC, Ge J. Evaluating the positive predictive value of code-based identification of cirrhosis and its complications utilizing GPT-4. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2024. PMID: 39378414

Nobel YR, Boike JR, Mazumder NR, Thornburg B, Hoffman R, Kolli KP, Fallon M, Lai JC, Morelli G, Spengler EK, Said A, Desai AP, Paul S, Goel A, Hu K, Frenette C, Gregory D, Padilla C, Zhang Y, VanWagner LB, Verna EC, Advancing Liver Therapeutic Approaches (ALTA) Study Group. Predictors of long-term clinical outcomes after TIPS: An ALTA group study. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2024. PMID: 39255519

Lai M, Lai JC, Allegretti AS, Patidar KR, Cullaro G. Investigating the Association between Steatotic Liver Disease and CKD in a Nationally Representative Sample. Kidney360 2024. PMID: 39235870

Mauro E, Sanduzzi-Zamparelli M, Jutras G, Garcia R, Soler Perromat A, Llarch N, Holguin Arce V, Ruiz P, Rimola J, Lopez E, Ferrer-Fàbrega J, García-Criado Á, Colmenero J, Lai JC, Forner A. Challenges in Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Review of Current Controversies. Cancers 2024. PMID: 39272917

Ge J, Far A, Digitale JC, Pletcher MJ, Lai JC, National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Consortium. Decreasing Case Fatality Rates for Patients with Cirrhosis Infected with SARS-CoV-2: A National COVID Cohort Collaborative Study. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association 2024. PMID: 39181420

Cullaro G, Allegretti AS, Patidar KR, Verna EC, Lai JC. Cystatin C and the difference between cystatin C and serum creatinine: Improved metrics to predict waitlist mortality among decompensated cirrhosis patients. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2024. PMID: 39041923

Wang M, Chiou SH, Ganger D, Ruck J, Huang CY, Kappus MR, King EA, Ladner DP, Rahimi RS, Duarte-Rojo A, Volk ML, Tevar AD, Verna EC, Lai JC. Liver transplantation provides survival benefit at all levels of frailty: From the Multicenter Functional Assessment in Liver Transplantation Study. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2024. PMID: 39047086

Wang M, Shui AM, Huang CY, Kappus MR, Rahimi R, Verna EC, Ruck J, King EA, Ladner DP, Tevar AD, Volk ML, Duarte-Rojo A, Ganger D, Lai JC. The liver frailty index enhances mortality risk prediction above and beyond MELD 3.0 alone. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2024. PMID: 39041899

Lai JC, Sarin SK, Gines P. From Prognostication to Therapeutics: Four key questions to accelerate the development of therapeutics for patients with ACLF. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2024. PMID: 39047977

Wong RJ, Loeb R, Seal KH, Barry F, Stark Kent D, Seetharaman S, Sharma A, Lai JC, Rubin JB. The Complex Relationship Between Pain, Mental Health, and Quality-of-Life in Patients With Cirrhosis Undergoing Liver Transplant Evaluation. Journal of clinical gastroenterology 2024. PMID: 39008614

Wang M, Shui AM, Rubin JB, Pyrsopoulos N, Lai JC. Association between protein-energy malnutrition and healthcare use among adult patients after liver transplantation: A retrospective cohort study. JPEN. Journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition 2024. PMID: 38944761

Ge J, Sun S, Owens J, Galvez V, Gologorskaya O, Lai JC, Pletcher MJ, Lai K. Reply: Refining retrieval and chunking strategies for enhanced clinical reliability of large language models in liver disease. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2024. PMID: 38935858

Gutierrez SA, Chiou SH, Raghu V, Cole CR, Rhee S, Lai JC, Wadhwani SI. Associations between hospital-level socioeconomic patient mix and rates of central line-associated bloodstream infections in short bowel syndrome: A retrospective cohort study. JPEN. Journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition 2024. PMID: 38924098

Wang M, Shui AM, Ruck J, Huang CY, Verna EC, King EA, Ladner DP, Ganger D, Kappus M, Rahimi R, Tevar AD, Duarte-Rojo A, Lai JC. Clinically relevant cut-points for changes in the Liver Frailty Index are associated with waitlist mortality in patients with cirrhosis. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2024. PMID: 38900010

Shifman HP, Hatchett J, Pai RA, Safer R, Gomel R, Vyas M, Li M, Lai JC, Wadhwani SI. Caregiver-reported symptom burden and preferences for therapeutic goals in pediatric primary sclerosing cholangitis. Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition 2024. PMID: 38899591

Jutras G, Lai JC. The Liver Frailty Index: a model for establishing organ-specific frailty metrics across all solid organ transplantation. Current opinion in organ transplantation 2024. PMID: 38836426

Rubin JB, Loeb R, Fenton C, Huang CY, Keyhani S, Seal KH, Lai JC. The burden of significant pain in the cirrhosis population: Risk factors, analgesic use, and impact on health care utilization and clinical outcomes. Hepatology communications 2024. PMID: 38780295

Li M, Pai RA, Gomel R, Vyas M, Callif SC, Hatchett J, Bowlus CL, Lai JC. Patient-focused drug development in primary sclerosing cholangitis: Insights on patient priorities and involvement in clinical trials. Hepatology communications 2024. PMID: 38727680

Cullaro G, Allegretti AS, Patidar KR, Verna EC, Lai JC. Applying Metabolomics and Aptamer-based Proteomics to Determine Pathophysiologic Differences in Decompensated Cirrhosis Patients Hospitalized with Acute Kidney Injury. Research square 2024. PMID: 38765962

Gutierrez SA, Chiou SH, Rhee S, Lai JC, Wadhwani SI. The influence of neighborhood income on healthcare utilization in pediatric liver transplant. Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition 2024. PMID: 38693791

Lai JC. Frailty, Sarcopenia, and Nutrition in Patients With Cirrhosis. Gastroenterology & hepatology 2024. PMID: 38682125

Cruz C, Prado CM, Gillis C, Martindale R, Bémeur C, Lai JC, Tandon P. Nutritional aspects of prehabilitation in adults with cirrhosis awaiting liver transplant. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2024. PMID: 38546288

Cullaro G, Chiou SH, Fenton C, Ge J, McCulloch CE, Rubin J, Shui AM, Yao F, Lai JC. Outpatient mean arterial pressure: A potentially modifiable risk for acute kidney injury and death among cirrhosis patients. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2024. PMID: 38535488

Brahmania M, Kuo A, Tapper EB, Volk M, Vittorio JM, Ghabril M, Morgan T, Kanwal F, Parikh ND, Martin P, Mehta S, Winder GS, Im GY, Goldberg D, Lai JC, Duarte-Rojo A, Paredes AH, Patel AA, Sahota A, McElroy LM, Thomas C, Wall AE, Malinis M, Aslam S, Simonetto DA, Ufere NN, Ramakrishnan S, Flynn MM, Ibrahim Y, Asrani SK, Serper M. Quality measures in pre-liver transplant care by the Practice Metrics Committee of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2024. PMID: 38536021

Cullaro G, Allegretti AS, Fenton C, Ge J, Patidar KR, Rubin J, Sharma A, Lai JC. The association between mean arterial pressure and acute kidney injury reversal among decompensated cirrhosis patients. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2024. PMID: 38537129

Wadhwani SI, Kruse G, Squires J, Ebel N, Gupta N, Campbell K, Hsu E, Zielsdorf S, Vittorio J, Desai DM, Bucuvalas JC, Gottlieb LM, Lai JC. Caregiver Perceptions of Social Risk Screening in Pediatric Liver Transplantation: From the Multicenter SOCIAL-Tx Study. Transplantation 2023. PMID: 37831642

Ge J, Chen IY, Pletcher MJ, Lai JC. How I Approach It: Prompt Engineering for Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) in Gastroenterology and Hepatology. The American journal of gastroenterology 2024. PMID: 38294157

Ge J, Sun S, Owens J, Galvez V, Gologorskaya O, Lai JC, Pletcher MJ, Lai K. Development of a liver disease-Specific large language model chat Interface using retrieval augmented generation. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2024. PMID: 38451962

Ge J, Buenaventura A, Berrean B, Purvis J, Fontil V, Lai JC, Pletcher MJ. Applying human-centered design to the construction of a cirrhosis management clinical decision support system. Hepatology communications 2024. PMID: 38407255

Li M, Wong D, Sack JS, Vogel AS, Hodi FS, Fong L, Lai JC, Zucker SD, Grover S. Outcomes of high-grade immune checkpoint inhibitor hepatitis in hospitalized and non-hospitalized patients. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association 2024. PMID: 38401693

Calthorpe L, Chiou SH, Rubin J, Huang CY, Feng S, Lai J. A modified hospital frailty risk score for patients with cirrhosis undergoing abdominal operations. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2024. PMID: 38373139

Ufere NN, Serper M, Kaplan A, Horick N, Indriolo T, Li L, Satapathy N, Donlan J, Castano Jimenez JC, Lago-Hernandez C, Lieber S, Gonzalez C, Keegan E, Schoener K, Bethea E, Dageforde LA, Yeh H, El-Jawahri A, Park ER, Vodkin I, Schonfeld E, Nipp R, Desai A, Lai JC. Financial burden following adult liver transplantation is common and associated with adverse recipient outcomes. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2024. PMID: 38353602

Kochar B, Rusher A, Araka E, Glasser R, Lai J, Ritchie C, Ananthakrishnan AN. Prevalence and Appropriateness of Polypharmacy in Older Adults with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. Digestive diseases and sciences 2024. PMID: 38273076

LaHue SC, Fuentealba M, Roa Diaz S, Seetharaman S, Garcia T, Furman D, Lai JC, Newman JC. Association of biological aging with frailty and post-transplant outcomes among adults with cirrhosis. GeroScience 2024. PMID: 38246968

Teles MS, Ruck JM, Jefferis A, Helmy S, Oh ES, Murriel EC, Lai JC, King EA. A pragmatic tool to screen for pre-transplant cognitive impairment among potential candidates for liver transplant. Clinical transplantation 2024. PMID: 38289890

Wadhwani SI, Alvarado A, Shifman HP, Bautista B, Yalung J, Squires JE, Campbell K, Ebel NH, Hsu E, Vittorio J, Zielsdorf S, Desai DM, Bucuvalas JC, Gottlieb L, Kotagal U, Lyles CR, Ackerman SL, Lai JC. Caregivers' and providers' perspectives of social and medical care after pediatric liver transplant: Results from the multi-center SOCIAL-Tx study. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2023. PMID: 38166123

Ge J, Li M, Delk MB, Lai JC. A comparison of large language model versus manual chart review for extraction of data elements from the electronic health record. Gastroenterology 2023. PMID: 38151192

Berry K, Ruck JM, Barry F, Shui AM, Cortella A, Kent D, Seetharaman S, Wong R, VandeVrede L, Lai JC. Prevalence of cognitive impairment in liver transplant recipients. Clinical transplantation 2023. PMID: 38113284

Sheshadri A, Elia JR, Garcia G, Abrams G, Adey DB, Lai JC, Sudore RL. Barriers and Facilitators to Exercise in Older Adults Awaiting Kidney Transplantation and Their Care Partners. Kidney Medicine 2023. PMID: 38419789

Wang M, Shui AM, Ruck J, King E, Rahimi R, Kappus M, Volk ML, Ganger DR, Ladner DP, Duarte-Rojo A, Huang CY, Verna EC, Lai JC. The liver frailty index is a predictor of healthcare utilization after liver transplantation in older adults. Clinical transplantation 2023. PMID: 38064281

Ruck JM, Shui AM, Jefferis AA, Duarte Rojo A, Rahimi RS, Ganger DR, Verna EC, Kappus M, Ladner DP, Segev DL, Volk M, Tevar A, King EA, Lai JC. Association of body mass index with post-liver transplant outcomes. Clinical transplantation 2023. PMID: 38041450

Ge J, Sun S, Owens J, Galvez V, Gologorskaya O, Lai JC, Pletcher MJ, Lai K. Development of a Liver Disease-Specific Large Language Model Chat Interface using Retrieval Augmented Generation. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2023. PMID: 37986764

Cullaro G, Ge J, Lee BP, Lai JC, Wadhwani SI. Association between neighborhood-based material deprivation and liver transplant waitlist registrants demographics and mortality. Clinical transplantation 2023. PMID: 37937349

Gutierrez SA, Pathak S, Raghu V, Shui A, Huang CY, Rhee S, McKenzie-Sampson S, Lai JC, Wadhwani SI. Neighborhood Income is Associated with Healthcare Utilization in Pediatric Short Bowel Syndrome. The Journal of pediatrics 2023. PMID: 37940084

Nguyen VV, Wang S, Whitlock R, Xu C, Taneja S, Singh S, Abraldes JG, Burak K, Bailey RJ, Grab JD, Lai JC, Tandon P. A chair-stand time of greater than 15 seconds is associated with an increased risk of death and hospitalization in cirrhosis. Canadian liver journal 2023. PMID: 38020188

Yalung JE, Shifman HP, Rasnick Manning E, Beck A, Bucuvalas J, Lai JC, Wadhwani SI. Ambient air pollution is associated with graft failure/death in pediatric liver transplant recipients. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2023. PMID: 37898318

Shifman HP, Huang CY, Beck AF, Bucuvalas J, Perito ER, Hsu EK, Ebel NH, Lai JC, Wadhwani SI. Association of State Medicaid Expansion Policies with Pediatric Liver Transplant Outcomes. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2023. PMID: 37776976

Lai M, Fenton C, Ge J, Rubin J, Lai JC, Cullaro G. Nonselective beta-blockers may lead to stage 2 acute kidney injury and waitlist mortality in child class C cirrhosis. Hepatology communications 2023. PMID: 37756037

Ha NB, Fan B, Seetharaman S, Kent DS, Yao F, Shui AM, Huang CY, Wadhwani SI, Lai JC. Variation in skeletal muscle mass among patients with cirrhosis of different self-identified race/ethnicity. JGH open : an open access journal of gastroenterology and hepatology 2023. PMID: 37908292

Sheshadri A, Lai M, Hsu FC, Bauer SR, Chen SH, Tse W, Jotwani V, Tranah GJ, Lai JC, Hallan S, Fielding RA, Liu C, Ix JH, Coca SG, Shlipak MG. Structured Moderate Exercise and Biomarkers of Kidney Health in Sedentary Older Adults: The Lifestyle Interventions and Independence for Elders Randomized Clinical Trial. Kidney Medicine 2023. PMID: 37915963

Ge J, Li M, Delk MB, Lai JC. A comparison of large language model versus manual chart review for extraction of data elements from the electronic health record. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2023. PMID: 37693398

Yu RC, Lai JC, Hui EK, Mukadam N, Kapur N, Stott J, Livingston G. Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Brief Cognitive Instruments to Evaluate Suspected Dementia in Chinese-Speaking Populations. Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports 2023. PMID: 37849633

Ge J, Digitale JC, Fenton C, McCulloch CE, Lai JC, Pletcher MJ, Gennatas ED. Predicting Post-Liver Transplant Outcomes in Patients with Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure using Expert-Augmented Machine Learning. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2023. PMID: 37652176

Ge J, Fontil V, Ackerman S, Pletcher MJ, Lai JC. Clinical decision support and electronic interventions to improve care quality in chronic liver diseases and cirrhosis. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2023. PMID: 37611253

Wang M, Wadhwani SI, Cullaro G, Lai JC, Rubin JB. Racial and Ethnic Disparities Among Patients Hospitalized for Acute Cholangitis in the United States. Journal of clinical gastroenterology 2022. PMID: 35997698

Thuluvath AJ, Duarte-Rojo A, Lai JC, Peipert J, Dietch ZC, Siddiqui O, Morrissey S, Belfanti K, Zhao L, Guo K, Nizamuddin M, Polineni P, Levitsky J, Flores AM, Ladner DP. Brief PROMIS Assessment Screens for Frailty and Predicts Hospitalizations in Liver Transplant Candidates. Transplantation 2023. PMID: 37496147

Ge J, Digitale JC, Pletcher MJ, Lai JC, N3C Consortium. Reply: What is the actual role of decompensated cirrhosis in the breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infection? Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2023. PMID: 37459558

Deng LX, Sharma A, Gedallovich SM, Tandon P, Hansen L, Lai JC. Caregiver Burden in Adult Solid Organ Transplantation. Transplantation 2022. PMID: 36584379

Wang M, Ge J, Ha N, Shui AM, Huang CY, Cullaro G, Lai JC. Clinical Characteristics Associated With Posttransplant Survival Among Adults 70 Years Old or Older Undergoing Liver Transplantation. Journal of clinical gastroenterology 2023. PMID: 37279205

Tapper EB, Lai JC. Time to embrace PROMIS-29 as the standard health-related quality of life instrument for patients with cirrhosis. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2023. PMID: 37278246

Li M, Wong D, Sack JS, Vogel AS, Hodi FS, Fong L, Lai JC, Grover S, Zucker SD. Early Liver Specialist Consultation is Associated With Faster Biochemical Resolution of Severe Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Induced Hepatitis. Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN 2023. PMID: 37308118

Patel AA, Tapper EB, Kanwal F, Woodrell CD, Hansen L, Lai JC, Rogal S, McDermott C, Rakoski M, Ufere NN. Targets and study design for symptom-focused trials aimed at patients with cirrhosis: An expert consensus. Hepatology communications 2023. PMID: 37267219

Wong RJ, Ge J, Boike J, German M, Morelli G, Spengler E, Said A, Desai A, Couri T, Paul S, Frenette C, Verna EC, Goel A, Fallon M, Thornburg B, VanWagner L, Lai JC, Kolli KP. Change in Platelet Count After Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Creation: An Advancing Liver Therapeutic Approaches (ALTA) Group Study. Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR 2023. PMID: 37100199

Jones PD, Lai JC, Bajaj JS, Kanwal F. Actionable Solutions to Achieve Health Equity in Chronic Liver Disease. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association 2023. PMID: 37061105

Wang M, Shui AM, Barry F, Verna E, Kent D, Yao F, Seetharaman S, Berry K, Grubbs RK, George G, Huang CY, Duarte-Rojo A, Lai JC. The TeLeFI (Tele-Liver Frailty Index): Development of a novel frailty tool in patients with cirrhosis via telemedicine. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2023. PMID: 37061188

Ge J, Lai JC. Artificial intelligence-based text generators in hepatology: ChatGPT is just the beginning. Hepatology communications 2023. PMID: 36972383

Ha NB, Seetharaman S, Kent DS, Yao F, Shui AM, Huang CY, Walston J, Lai JC. Serum and plasma protein biomarkers associated with frailty in patients with cirrhosis. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2023. PMID: 36932707

Ge J, Digitale JC, Pletcher MJ, Lai JC, N3C Consortium. Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infection outcomes in vaccinated patients with chronic liver disease and cirrhosis: A National COVID Cohort Collaborative study. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2023. PMID: 36799617

Wang M, Huang CY, Cullaro G, Covinsky K, Lai JC. Women with cirrhosis have lower self-rated health than men. Hepatology communications 2023. PMID: 36757393

Lai JC, Shui AM, Duarte-Rojo A, Rahimi RS, Ganger DR, Verna EC, Volk ML, Kappus M, Ladner DP, Boyarsky B, Segev DL, Gao Y, Huang CY, Singer JP. Association of Frailty With Health-Related Quality of Life in Liver Transplant Recipients. JAMA surgery 2022. PMID: 36515937

Ufere NN, El-Jawahri A, Ritchie C, Lai JC, Schwarze ML. Promoting Prognostic Understanding and Health Equity for Patients With Advanced Liver Disease: Using "Best Case/Worst Case". Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association 2023. PMID: 36697145

Ufere NN, El-Jawahri A, Ritchie C, Lai JC, Schwarze ML. Promoting Prognostic Understanding and Health Equity for Patients With Advanced Liver Disease: Using "Best Case/Worst Case". Gastroenterology 2023. PMID: 36702571

Bommena S, Mahmud N, Boike JR, Thornburg BG, Kolli KP, Lai JC, German M, Morelli G, Spengler E, Said A, Desai AP, Junna S, Paul S, Frenette C, Verna EC, Goel A, Gregory D, Padilla C, VanWagner LB, Fallon MB, Advancing Liver Therapeutic Approaches (ALTA) Study Group. The impact of right atrial pressure on outcomes in patients undergoing TIPS, An ALTA group study. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2023. PMID: 36651170

Peters MG, Lai JC. Introducing Norah Terrault, MD, MPH, Our 2023 AASLD President. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2023. PMID: 36630993

Sawinski D, Lai JC, Pinney S, Gray AL, Jackson AM, Stewart D, Levine DJ, Locke JE, Pomposelli JJ, Hartwig MG, Hall SA, Dadhania DM, Cogswell R, Perez RV, Schold JD, Turgeon NA, Kobashigawa J, Kukreja J, Magee JC, Friedewald J, Gill JS, Loor G, Heimbach JK, Verna EC, Walsh MN, Terrault N, Testa G, Diamond JM, Reese PP, Brown K, Orloff S, Farr MA, Olthoff KM, Siegler M, Ascher N, Feng S, Kaplan B, Pomfret E. Addressing sex-based disparities in solid organ transplantation in the United States - a conference report. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2023. PMID: 36906294

Ha NB, Fan B, Shui AM, Huang CY, Brandman D, Lai JC. CT-quantified sarcopenic visceral obesity is associated with poor transplant waitlist mortality in patients with cirrhosis. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2023. PMID: 36735830

Rubin JB, Lai JC, Shui AM, Hohmann SF, Auerbach A. Cirrhosis Inpatients Receive More Opioids and Fewer Nonopioid Analgesics Than Patients Without Cirrhosis. 2021. PMID: 34653064

Chebrolu S, Phipps M, Yao F, Lai J, Verna E, Serper M, Cullaro G, Asrani SK, VanWagner LB. Multicenter Assessment of Hypertension Management of Liver Transplant Recipients. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2022. PMID: 35839287

Ge J, Kim WR, Lai JC, Kwong AJ. Title: On Building a Better Mousetrap Response to: "Towards Optimally Replacing the Current Version of MELD". Journal of hepatology 2022. PMID: 36402449

Barman PM, Patel YA, Xie J, Zhang M, Jo J, Sinha J, Answine A, Schluger A, Walter K, Biggins SW, Cullaro G, Wong R, Lai JC, VanWagner LB, Magee J, Verna EC, Sharma P. Predictors of Length of Stay and Mortality During Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplant Index Admission: Results From the US-Multicenter SLKT Consortium. Transplantation direct 2022. PMID: 36398193

Bajaj JS, Lai JC, Tandon P, O'Leary JG, Wong F, Garcia-Tsao G, Vargas HE, Kamath PS, Biggins SW, Limon-Miro A, Shaw J, Mbachi C, Chew M, Golob Deeb J, Thacker LR, Reddy KR. Role of Oral Health, Frailty, and Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy in the Risk of Hospitalization: A Prospective Multi-Center Cohort of Outpatients With Cirrhosis. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association 2022. PMID: 36328307

Jo J, Crespo G, Gregory D, Sinha J, Xie J, Zhang M, Magee J, Barman P, Patel YA, Schluger A, Walters K, Biggins S, Filipek N, Cullaro G, Wong R, Lai JC, Perreault GJ, Verna EC, Sharma P, VanWagner LB. Factors associated with cardiovascular events after simultaneous liver-kidney transplant from the US Multicenter Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplant Consortium. Hepatology communications 2022. PMID: 36285830

Thuluvath AJ, Lai JC. Understanding Current Limitations to Exercise Interventions After Liver Transplantation. Transplantation 2022. PMID: 36192836

Crespo G, Hessheimer AJ, Armstrong MJ, Berzigotti A, Monbaliu D, Spiro M, Rapti DA, Lai JC. Which preoperative assessment modalities best identify patients who are suitable for enhanced recovery after liver transplantation? - A systematic review of the literature and expert panel recommendations. 2022. PMID: 35293025

Thuluvath AJ, Siddiqui O, Lai JC, Peipert J, Levitsky J, Daud A, Mazumder NR, Flores AM, Borja-Cacho D, Caicedo JC, Loftus C, Wong R, Mroczek D, Ladner DP. Personality Traits in Patients With Cirrhosis Are Different From Those of the General Population and Impact Likelihood of Liver Transplantation. Transplantation 2022. PMID: 36173424

Wang M, Auerbach A, Oreper SM, Hohmann SF, Lai JC, Rubin JB. Leveraging a New ICD-10 Diagnosis Code to Characterize Hospitalized Patients With Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association 2022. PMID: 36113826

Bajaj JS, Reddy KR, Tandon P, Garcia-Tsao G, Kamath PS, O'Leary JG, Wong F, Lai J, Vargas H, Thuluvath PJ, Subramanian RM, Pena-Rodriguez M, Sikaroodi M, Thacker LR, Gillevet PM. Association of serum metabolites and gut microbiota at hospital admission with nosocomial infection development in patients with cirrhosis. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2022. PMID: 36017804

Ge J, Lai JC, Wadhwani SI. Novel approaches are needed to study social determinants of health in liver transplantation. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2022. PMID: 35962612

Wadhwani SI, Lai JC, Gottlieb L. Medical Need and Transplant Accessibility-Reply. JAMA 2022. PMID: 35972489

Berry K, Asken BM, Grab JD, Chan B, Lario Lago A, Wong R, Seetharaman S, LaHue SC, Possin KL, Rojas JC, Kramer JH, Boxer AL, Lai JC, VandeVrede L. Hepatic and renal function impact concentrations of plasma biomarkers of neuropathology. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2022. PMID: 35845260

Ge J, Digitale JC, Pletcher MJ, Lai JC, N3C Consortium. Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 Infection Outcomes in Vaccinated Patients with Chronic Liver Disease and Cirrhosis: A National COVID Cohort Collaborative Study. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2022. PMID: 35821984

Ufere NN, Satapathy N, Philpotts L, Lai JC, Serper M. Financial Burden in Adults with Chronic Liver Disease: A Scoping Review. 2022. PMID: 35644920

Sharma P, Xie J, Wang L, Zhang M, Magee J, Answine A, Barman P, Jo J, Sinha J, Schluger A, Perreault GJ, Walters K, Cullaro G, Wong R, Filipek N, Biggins SW, Lai JC, VanWagner LB, Verna EC, Patel YA. Burden of Early Hospitalization after Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplantation: Results from the US Multicenter SLKT Consortium. 2022. PMID: 35665591

Wadhwani SI, Lai JC. The Digital Determinants of Liver Disease. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2022. PMID: 35753068

Wadhwani SI, Barrera AG, Shifman HP, Baker E, Bucuvalas J, Gottlieb LM, Kotagal U, Rhee SJ, Lai JC, Lyles CR. Caregiver perspectives on the everyday medical and social needs of long-term pediatric liver transplant patients. 2022. PMID: 35524767

Ge J, Kim WR, Lai JC, Kwong AJ. "Beyond MELD" - Emerging strategies and technologies for improving mortality prediction, organ allocation and outcomes in liver transplantation. 2022. PMID: 35589253

Calloway T, Hsiao AF, Brand M, Lai J, Geise C, Caceido B, Alpert R, Hollifield M. Conceptualizing a Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pathology of Arousal Diagnostic and Pathophysiological Framework for Postacute Sequelae of COVID-19. Medical acupuncture 2022. PMID: 35832113

Hollifield M, Cocozza K, Calloway T, Lai J, Caicedo B, Carrick K, Alpert R, Hsiao AF. Improvement in Long-COVID Symptoms Using Acupuncture: A Case Study. Medical acupuncture 2022. PMID: 35832108

Ha NB, Montano-Loza AJ, Carey EJ, Lin S, Shui AM, Huang CY, Dunn MA, Lai JC. Sarcopenic visceral obesity is associated with increased post-liver transplant mortality in acutely ill patients with cirrhosis. 2022. PMID: 35486028

Berry KA, Kent D, Seetharaman S, Wong R, Mohamad Y, Yao F, Nunez-Duarte M, Wadhwani SI, Boyarsky BJ, Rahimi RS, Duarte-Rojo A, Kappus MR, Volk ML, Ladner DP, Segev DL, McAdams-DeMarco M, Verna EC, Ganger DR, Lai JC. Loneliness in adults awaiting liver transplantation at 7 U.S. transplant centers. 2022. PMID: 35460882

Ebel NH, Lai JC, Bucuvalas JC, Wadhwani SI. A review of racial, socioeconomic, and geographic disparities in pediatric liver transplantation. 2022. PMID: 35188708

Wadhwani SI, Lai JC, Gottlieb LM. Medical Need, Financial Resources, and Transplant Accessibility. 2022. PMID: 35357415

Bajaj JS, Tandon P, O'Leary JG, Reddy KR, Garcia-Tsao G, Thuluvath P, Lai JC, Subramanian RM, Vargas HE, Wong F, Fagan A, McGeorge S, Thacker LR, Kamath PS. Admission Serum Metabolites and Thyroxine Predict Advanced Hepatic Encephalopathy in a Multi-center Inpatient Cirrhosis Cohort. 2022. PMID: 35436625

Cullaro G, Hsu CY, Lai JC. Variability in Serum Creatinine is Associated with Waitlist and Post-Liver Transplant Mortality in Cirrhosis Patients. 2022. PMID: 35357707

Cullaro G, Verna EC, McCulloch CE, Lai JC. Improving the model for end-stage liver disease with sodium by incorporating kidney dysfunction types. 2022. PMID: 35298079

Ha NB, Lai JC. The bidirectional relationship between nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and sarcopenia. 2022. PMID: 35347595

Bajaj JS, Wong F, Kamath PS, Lai JC, O'Leary JG. GUIDELINE TO PRACTICE: ACUTE ON CHRONIC LIVER FAILURE. 2022. PMID: 35333779

Shifman HP, Rasnick E, Huang CY, Beck AF, Bucuvalas J, Lai JC, Wadhwani SI. Association of Primary Care Shortage Areas with Adverse Outcomes After Pediatric Liver Transplant. 2022. PMID: 35301019

Berry K, Copeland T, Ku E, Lai JC. Perioperative Delta Sodium and Post-Liver Transplant Neurological Complications in Liver Transplant Recipients. 2022. PMID: 35289775

Murakami N, Baggett ND, Schwarze ML, Ladin K, Courtwright AM, Goldberg HJ, Nolley EP, Jain N, Landzberg M, Wentlandt K, Lai JC, Shinall MC, Ufere NN, Jones CA, Lakin JR. Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Solid Organ Transplantation. 2022. PMID: 35275707

Berry K, Rubin JB, Lai JC. Osmotic Demyelination Syndrome in Hospitalized Patients With Cirrhosis: Analysis of the National Inpatient Sample (NIS). Journal of clinical gastroenterology 2021. PMID: 33731600

Lai JC, Pomfret EA, Verna EC. Implicit bias and the gender inequity in liver transplantation. 2022. PMID: 35114054

Bajaj JS, O'Leary JG, Lai JC, Wong F, Long MD, Wong RJ, Kamath PS. Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure Clinical Guidelines. 2022. PMID: 35006099

Wong F, Garcia-Tsao G, Reddy KR, O'Leary JG, Kamath PS, Tandon P, Lai JC, Vargas HE, Biggins SW, Fallon MB, Thuluvath PJ, Maliakkal BJ, Subramanian R, Thacker L, Bajaj JS. Prognosis of hospitalized patients with cirrhosis and acute kidney disease. 2022. PMID: 35023264

Wang S, Whitlock R, Lai JC, Taneja S, Tandon P. Response to: Relevance of Population-Based Cut-offs to Define Frailty in Clinical Studies. 2022. PMID: 35006612

Rubin JB, Lai JC, Leonard S, Seal K, Hoggatt KJ, Keyhani S. Long-Term Opioid Use Among Veterans with Cirrhosis: High-Dose Prescriptions in an Exceedingly High-Risk Population. 2022. PMID: 35037175

Kochar B, Ufere NN, Ritchie CS, Lai JC. The 5Ms of Geriatrics in Gastroenterology: The Path to Creating Age-Friendly Care for Older Adults With Inflammatory Bowel Diseases and Cirrhosis. 2022. PMID: 35080513

Lai JC, Shui AM, Duarte-Rojo A, Ganger DR, Rahimi RS, Huang CY, Yao F, Kappus M, Boyarsky B, McAdams-Demarco M, Volk ML, Dunn MA, Ladner DP, Segev DL, Verna EC, Feng S, Multi-Center Functional Assessment in Liver Transplantation (FrAILT) Study. Frailty, Mortality, and Healthcare Utilization after Liver Transplantation: From the Multi-Center Functional Assessment in Liver Transplantation (FrAILT) Study. 2021. PMID: 34862808

Wadhwani SI, Ge J, Gottlieb L, Lyles C, Beck AF, Bucuvalas J, Neuhaus J, Kotagal U, Lai JC. Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Wait List Outcomes Are Only Partly Explained by Socioeconomic Deprivation Among Children Awaiting Liver Transplantation. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2021. PMID: 34387881

Wang S, Whitlock R, Xu C, Taneja S, Singh S, Abraldes JG, Burak KW, Bailey RJ, Lai JC, Tandon P. Frailty is associated with increased risk of cirrhosis disease progression and death. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2021. PMID: 34528267

Deng LX, Bischoff KE, Kent DS, O'Riordan DL, Pantilat SZ, Lai JC. Frailty is strongly associated with self-reported symptom burden among patients with cirrhosis. European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology 2021. PMID: 33731588

Ge J, Ku E, Roll GR, Lai JC. An Analysis of Free-Text Refusals as an Indicator of Readiness to Accept Organ Offers in Liver Transplantation. 2021. PMID: 34783178

Wong F, Reddy KR, Tandon P, Lai JC, Jagarlamudi N, Weir V, Kok B, Kalainy S, Srisengfa YT, Albhaisi S, Reuter B, Acharya C, Shaw J, Thacker LR, Bajaj JS. The Prediction of in-Hospital Mortality in Decompensated Cirrhosis with Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure. 2021. PMID: 34564944

Cullaro G, Rubin J, Mehta N, Yao F, Verna EC, Lai JC. Sex-Based Disparities in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Recurrence After Liver Transplantation. Transplantation 2020. PMID: 33323764

Ufere NN, Robinson B, Donlan J, Indriolo T, Bloom J, Scherrer A, Mason NM, Patel A, Lai JC, Chung RT, Volandes A, El-Jawahri A. Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of an Advance Care Planning Video Decision Tool for Patients With Advanced Liver Disease. 2021. PMID: 34718173

Cullaro G, Verna EC, Duarte-Rojo A, Kappus MR, Ganger DR, Rahimi RS, Boyarsky B, Segev DL, McAdams-DeMarco M, Ladner DP, Volk ML, Hsu CY, Lai JC. Frailty and the Risk of Acute Kidney Injury Among Patients With Cirrhosis. 2021. PMID: 34676697

Singh S, Heien HC, Sangaralingham L, Shah ND, Lai JC, Sandborn WJ, Moore AA. Frailty and Risk of Serious Infections in Biologic-treated Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. Inflammatory bowel diseases 2020. PMID: 33325507

Wadhwani SI, Gottlieb L, Bucuvalas JC, Lyles C, Lai JC. Addressing social adversity to improve outcomes for children after liver transplant. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2021. PMID: 34320247

Boike JR, Mazumder NR, Kolli KP, Ge J, German M, Jest N, Morelli G, Spengler E, Said A, Lai JC, Desai AP, Couri T, Paul S, Frenette C, Verna EC, Rahim U, Goel A, Gregory D, Thornburg B, VanWagner LB, Advancing Liver Therapeutic Approaches (ALTA) Study Group. Outcomes After TIPS for Ascites and Variceal Bleeding in a Contemporary Era-An ALTA Group Study. The American journal of gastroenterology 2021. PMID: 34158464

Deng LX, Tana MM, Lai JC. Thinking Ahead: Advance Care Planning for Patients With Cirrhosis. 2021. PMID: 35106142

Lai JC, Tandon P, Bernal W, Tapper EB, Ekong U, Dasarathy S, Carey EJ. Malnutrition, Frailty, and Sarcopenia in Patients With Cirrhosis: 2021 Practice Guidance by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2021. PMID: 34233031

Kwong AJ, Lai JC, Kim WR. Correcting the sex disparity in access to liver transplantation: Lest perfect be the enemy of better. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2021. PMID: 34403193

Berry K, Duarte-Rojo A, Grab JD, Dunn MA, Boyarsky BJ, Verna EC, Kappus MR, Volk ML, McAdams-DeMarco M, Segev DL, Ganger DR, Ladner DP, Shui A, Tincopa MA, Rahimi RS, Lai JC, from the Multi-Center Functional Assessment in Liver Transplantation (FrAILT) Study. Cognitive Impairment and Physical Frailty in Patients With Cirrhosis. Hepatology communications 2021. PMID: 34558844

Cullaro G, Sharma P, Jo J, Rassiwala J, VanWagner LB, Wong R, Lai JC, Magee J, Schluger A, Barman P, Patel YA, Walter K, Biggins SW, Verna EC. Temporal Trends and Evolving Outcomes After Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplantation (SLKT): Results from the US SLKT Consortium. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2021. PMID: 34265161

Deng LX, Kent DS, O'Riordan DL, Pantilat SZ, Lai JC, Bischoff KE. Symptom Burden Is Associated with Increased Emergency Department Utilization among Patients with Cirrhosis. Journal of palliative medicine 2021. PMID: 34348042

Serper M, Tao SY, Kent DS, Garren P, Burdzy AE, Lai JC, Gougol A, Bloomer PM, Reddy KR, Dunn MA, Duarte-Rojo A. Inpatient Frailty Assessment Is Feasible and Predicts Nonhome Discharge and Mortality in Decompensated Cirrhosis. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2021. PMID: 34018303

Cullaro G, Rubin JB, Fortune BE, Crawford CV, Verna EC, Hsu CY, Liu KD, Brown RS, Lai JC, Rosenblatt R. Association Between Kidney Dysfunction Types and Mortality Among Hospitalized Patients with Cirrhosis. Digestive diseases and sciences 2021. PMID: 34292470

Ge J, Pletcher MJ, Lai JC, N3C Consortium. Outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Patients With Chronic Liver Disease and Cirrhosis: A National COVID Cohort Collaborative Study. Gastroenterology 2021. PMID: 34284037

Xu CQ, Mohamad Y, Kappus MR, Boyarsky B, Ganger DR, Volk ML, Rahimi RS, Duarte-Rojo A, McAdams-DeMarco M, Segev DL, Ladner DP, Verna EC, Grab J, Tincopa M, Dunn MA, Lai JC. The relationship between frailty and cirrhosis etiology: From the Functional Assessment in Liver Transplantation (FrAILT) Study. Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver 2021. PMID: 34219362

Bajaj JS, Garcia-Tsao G, Reddy KR, O'Leary JG, Vargas HE, Lai JC, Kamath PS, Tandon P, Subramanian RM, Thuluvath P, Fagan A, Sehrawat T, de la Rosa Rodriguez R, Thacker LR, Wong F. Admission Urinary and Serum Metabolites Predict Renal Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients With Cirrhosis. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2021. PMID: 34002868

Tandon P, Montano-Loza AJ, Lai JC, Dasarathy S, Merli M. Sarcopenia and frailty in decompensated cirrhosis. Journal of hepatology 2021. PMID: 34039486

Patel AA, Woodrell C, Ufere NN, Hansen L, Tandon P, Verma M, Lai J, Pinotti R, Rakoski M, Palliative Care Education, Advocacy, and Research in Liver Disease (PEARL) Workgroup and the AASLD P. Developing Priorities for Palliative Care Research in Advanced Liver Disease: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Hepatology communications 2021. PMID: 34510839

Ha NB, Cho SJ, Mohamad Y, Kent D, Jun G, Wong R, Swarnakar V, Lin S, Maher JJ, Lai JC. Visceral Adipose Tissue Inflammation and Radiographic Visceral-to-Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue Ratio in Patients with Cirrhosis. Digestive diseases and sciences 2021. PMID: 34136974

Ge J, Pletcher MJ, Lai JC, N3C Consortium. Outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Patients with Chronic Liver Disease and Cirrhosis: a N3C Study. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2021. PMID: 34127981

Sheshadri A, Kittiskulnam P, Delgado C, Sudore RL, Lai JC, Johansen KL. Association of Cognitive Function Screening Results with Adherence and Performance in a Pedometer-Based Intervention. American journal of nephrology 2021. PMID: 33979802

Ufere NN, Lai JC. Advance Care Planning in Liver Transplant-Preparing for Both Life and Death. JAMA internal medicine 2021. PMID: 33720282

Sharma P, Sui Z, Zhang M, Magee JC, Barman P, Patel Y, Schluger A, Walter K, Biggins SW, Cullaro G, Wong R, Lai JC, Jo J, Sinha J, VanWagner L, Verna EC. Renal Outcomes After Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplantation: Results from the US Multicenter Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplantation Consortium. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2021. PMID: 33641218

Lai JC, Dodge JL, Kappus MR, Wong R, Mohamad Y, Segev DL, McAdams-DeMarco M. A Multicenter Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial of a Home-Based Exercise Program for Patients With Cirrhosis: The Strength Training Intervention (STRIVE). The American journal of gastroenterology 2021. PMID: 33982941

Cullaro G, Verna EC, Emond JC, Orandi BJ, Mohan S, Lai JC. Early Kidney Allograft Failure After Simultaneous Liver-kidney Transplantation (SLKT): Evidence for Utilization of the Safety Net? Transplantation 2020. PMID: 32413016

Rubin JB, Lai JC, Shui AM, Hohmann SF, Auerbach A. Patterns of Inpatient Opioid Use and Related Adverse Events Among Patients With Cirrhosis: A Propensity-Matched Analysis. Hepatology communications 2021. PMID: 34141991

Ge J, Najafi N, Zhao W, Somsouk M, Fang M, Lai JC. A Methodology to Generate Longitudinally Updated Acute-On-Chronic Liver Failure Prognostication Scores From Electronic Health Record Data. Hepatology communications 2021. PMID: 34141990

Wadhwani SI, Huang CY, Gottlieb L, Beck AF, Bucuvalas J, Kotagal U, Lyles C, Lai JC. Center variation in long-term outcomes for socioeconomically deprived children. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2021. PMID: 33565227

McAllister S, Lai JC, Copeland TP, Johansen KL, McCulloch CE, Kwong YD, Seth D, Grimes B, Ku E. Renal Recovery and Mortality Risk among Patients with Hepatorenal Syndrome Receiving Chronic Maintenance Dialysis. 2021. PMID: 35373067

Lai JC, Ganger DR, Volk ML, Dodge JL, Dunn MA, Duarte-Rojo A, Kappus MR, Rahimi RS, Ladner DP, Boyarsky B, McAdams-DeMarco M, Segev DL, McCulloch CE, Verna EC. Association of Frailty and Sex With Wait List Mortality in Liver Transplant Candidates in the Multicenter Functional Assessment in Liver Transplantation (FrAILT) Study. JAMA surgery 2021. PMID: 33377947

Williams FR, Milliken D, Lai JC, Armstrong MJ. Assessment of the Frail Patient With End-Stage Liver Disease: A Practical Overview of Sarcopenia, Physical Function, and Disability. Hepatology communications 2021. PMID: 34141980

Ge J, Wood N, Segev D, Lai JC, Gentry S. Implementing a Height-Based Rule for the Allocation of Pediatric Donor Livers to Adults: A Liver Simulated Allocation Model Study. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2021. PMID: 33459499

Hu C, Anjur V, Saboo K, Reddy KR, O'Leary J, Tandon P, Wong F, Garcia-Tsao G, Kamath PS, Lai JC, Biggins SW, Fallon MB, Thuluvath P, Subramanian RM, Maliakkal B, Vargas H, Thacker LR, Iyer RK, Bajaj JS. Low Predictability of Readmissions and Death Using Machine Learning in Cirrhosis. The American journal of gastroenterology 2020. PMID: 33038139

Xu CQ, Yao F, Mohamad Y, Wong R, Kent D, Seetharaman S, Srisengfa Y, Lai JC. Evaluating the Associations Between the Liver Frailty Index and Karnofsky Performance Status With Waitlist Mortality. Transplantation direct 2021. PMID: 33437866

Kriss M, Te HS, Verna EC, VanWagner LB, Scott FI, Lai JC. National Early Career Transplant Hepatologist Survey: Compensation, Burnout, and Job Satisfaction. Hepatology communications 2021. PMID: 33860127

Ge J, Lai JC, Boike JR, German M, Jest N, Morelli G, Spengler E, Said A, Lee A, Hristov A, Desai AP, Junna S, Pokhrel B, Couri T, Paul S, Frenette C, Christian-Miller N, Laurito M, Verna EC, Rahim U, Goel A, Das A, Pine S, Gregory D, VanWagner LB, Kolli KP, Advancing Liver Therapeutic Approaches (ALTA) Study Group. Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Diabetes Mellitus Are Associated With Post-Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Renal Dysfunction: An Advancing Liver Therapeutic Approaches Group Study. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2021. PMID: 33217178

O'Leary JG, Rajender Reddy K, Tandon P, Biggins SW, Wong F, Kamath PS, Garcia-Tsao G, Maliakkal B, Lai JC, Fallon M, Vargas HE, Thuluvath P, Subramanian R, Thacker LR, Bajaj JS. Increased Risk of ACLF and Inpatient Mortality in Hospitalized Patients with Cirrhosis and Hepatic Hydrothorax. Digestive diseases and sciences 2020. PMID: 33185787

Tu MY, Han KY, Chang GR, Lai GD, Chang KY, Chen CF, Lai JC, Lai CY, Chen HL, Chen CM. Kefir Peptides Prevent Estrogen Deficiency-Induced Bone Loss and Modulate the Structure of the Gut Microbiota in Ovariectomized Mice. Nutrients 2020. PMID: 33182364

Kardashian A, Ge J, McCulloch CE, Kappus MR, Dunn MA, Duarte-Rojo A, Volk ML, Rahimi RS, Verna EC, Ganger DR, Ladner D, Dodge JL, Boyarsky B, McAdams-DeMarco M, Segev DL, Lai JC. Identifying an Optimal Liver Frailty Index Cutoff to Predict Waitlist Mortality in Liver Transplant Candidates. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2020. PMID: 32491208

Kwong AJ, Devuni D, Wang C, Boike J, Jo J, VanWagner L, Serper M, Jones L, Sharma R, Verna EC, Shor J, German MN, Hristov A, Lee A, Spengler E, Koteish AA, Sehmbey G, Seetharam A, John N, Patel Y, Kappus MR, Couri T, Paul S, Salgia RJ, Nhu Q, Frenette CT, Lai JC, Goel A. Outcomes of Liver Transplantation Among Older Recipients With Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis in a Large Multicenter US Cohort: the Re-Evaluating Age Limits in Transplantation Consortium. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2020. PMID: 33047893

Bucuvalas J, Lai JC. Unforeseen Consequences of the COVID Pandemic. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2020. PMID: 32761990

Wong F, Reddy KR, Tandon P, O'Leary JG, Garcia-Tsao G, Vargas HE, Lai JC, Biggins SW, Maliakkal B, Fallon M, Subramanian R, Thuluvath P, Kamath PS, Thacker L, Bajaj JS. Progression of Stage 2 and 3 Acute Kidney Injury in Patients with Decompensated Cirrhosis and Ascites. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association 2020. PMID: 32798707

Wadhwani SI, Brokamp C, Rasnick E, Bucuvalas JC, Lai JC, Beck AF. Neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation, racial segregation, and organ donation across 5 states. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2020. PMID: 32654392

Sheshadri A, Kittiskulnam P, Delgado C, Sudore R, Lai JC, Johansen KL. Association of motivations and barriers with participation and performance in a pedometer-based intervention. Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association 2020. PMID: 32437568

Wong RJ, Mohamad Y, Srisengfa YT, Kent DS, Seetharaman S, Shah RJ, Lai JC. Psychological contributors to the frail phenotype: the association between resilience and frailty in patients with cirrhosis. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2020. PMID: 32524691

Bajaj JS, Reddy KR, O'Leary JG, Vargas HE, Lai JC, Kamath PS, Tandon P, Wong F, Subramanian RM, Thuluvath P, Fagan A, White MB, Gavis EA, Sehrawat T, Rodriguez RR, Thacker LR, Sikaroodi M, Garcia-Tsao G, Gillevet PM. Serum Levels of Metabolites Produced by Intestinal Microbes and Lipid Moieties Independently Associated With Acute on Chronic Liver Failure and Death in Patients With Cirrhosis. Gastroenterology 2020. PMID: 32687928

Verna EC, Lai JC. Time for Action to Address the Persistent Sex-Based Disparity in Liver Transplant Access. JAMA surgery 2020. PMID: 32432664

Fozouni L, Lai JC. Frailty as an Immune-Mediated Condition That Leads to an Increased Risk of Acute Cellular Rejection in Liver Transplant Recipients. Clinical liver disease 2020. PMID: 32617158

Lai JC, Ufere NN, Bucuvalas JC. Liver Transplant Survivorship. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2020. PMID: 32372563

Wang CW, Lebsack A, Sudore RL, Lai JC. Low Rates of Advance Care Planning (ACP) Discussions Despite Readiness to Engage in ACP Among Liver Transplant Candidates. Digestive diseases and sciences 2020. PMID: 32500286

Haugen CE, McAdams-DeMarco M, Holscher CM, Ying H, Gurakar AO, Garonzik-Wang J, Cameron AM, Segev DL, Lai JC. Multicenter Study of Age, Frailty, and Waitlist Mortality Among Liver Transplant Candidates. Annals of surgery 2019. PMID: 30672803

Rana A, Price MB, Barrett SC, Lai J, Bakhtiyar SS, Kanwal F, Vierling J, Wu M, Galvan NT, Goss J. Aggressive Utilization of Liver Allografts: Improved Outcomes over Time. Clinical transplantation 2020. PMID: 32198898

Rubin JB, Cullaro G, Ge J, Lai JC. Women who undergo liver transplant have longer length of stay post-transplant compared with men. Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver 2020. PMID: 32412164

Bajaj JS, O'Leary JG, Tandon P, Wong F, Kamath PS, Biggins SW, Garcia-Tsao G, Lai J, Fallon MB, Thuluvath PJ, Vargas HE, Maliakkal B, Subramanian RM, Thacker LR, Reddy KR. Insurance Status but Not Race/Ethnicity are Associated with Outcomes in a Large Hospitalized Cohort of Patients with Cirrhosis. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association 2020. PMID: 32389884

Dunn MA, Rogal SS, Duarte-Rojo A, Lai JC. Physical Function, Physical Activity and Quality of Life After Liver Transplantation: A Review. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2020. PMID: 32128971

Sheshadri A, Cullaro G, Johansen KL, Lai JC. Association of Karnofsky Performance Status with Waitlist Mortality among Older and Younger Adults Awaiting Kidney Transplantation. Clinical transplantation 2020. PMID: 32112458

Cullaro G, Verna EC, Lee BP, Lai JC. Chronic Kidney Disease in Liver Transplant Candidates: A Rising Burden Impacting Post-Liver Transplant Outcomes. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2019. PMID: 31785069

Lai JC, Dodge JL, Kappus MR, Dunn MA, Volk ML, Duarte-Rojo A, Ganger DR, Rahimi RS, McCulloch CE, Haugen CE, McAdams-DeMarco M, Ladner D, Segev DL, Verna EC. Changes in frailty are associated with waitlist mortality in patients with cirrhosis. Journal of hepatology 2020. PMID: 32240717

Sheshadri A, Kittiskulnam P, Lai JC, Johansen KL. Effect of a pedometer-based walking intervention on body composition in patients with ESRD: a randomized controlled trial. BMC nephrology 2020. PMID: 32178648

O'Leary JG, Tandon P, Reddy KR, Biggins SW, Wong F, Kamath PS, Garcia-Tsao G, Maliakkal B, Lai J, Fallon M, Vargas HE, Thuluvath P, Subramanian R, Thacker LR, Bajaj JS. Underutilization of Hospice in Inpatients with Cirrhosis: The NACSELD Experience. Digestive diseases and sciences 2020. PMID: 32146602

Wadhwani SI, Beck AF, Bucuvalas J, Gottlieb L, Kotagal U, Lai JC. Neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation is associated with worse patient and graft survival following pediatric liver transplantation. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2020. PMID: 31958208

Fozouni L, Mohamad Y, Lebsack A, Freise C, Stock P, Lai JC. Frailty is Associated with Increased Rates of Acute Cellular Rejection Within 3 Months After Liver Transplantation. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2019. PMID: 31655014

Mazumder N, Atiemo K, Kappus M, Cullaro G, Harinstein ME, Ladner D, Verna E, Lai J, Levitsky J. A Comprehensive Review of Outcome Predictors in Low MELD Patients. Transplantation 2019. PMID: 31517785

Godfrey EL, Malik TH, Lai JC, Mindikoglu AL, Galván NTN, Cotton RT, O'Mahony CA, Goss JA, Rana A. Response to "Reply to: 'The decreasing predictive power of MELD in an era of changing etiology of liver disease'". American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2020. PMID: 31943742

Rubin JB, Sundaram V, Lai JC. Gender Differences Among Patients Hospitalized With Cirrhosis in the United States. Journal of clinical gastroenterology 2019. PMID: 30807399

Ge J, Perito ER, Bucuvalas J, Gilroy R, Hsu EK, Roberts JP, Lai JC. Split liver transplantation is utilized infrequently and concentrated at few transplant centers in the United States. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2019. PMID: 31705730

Haugen CE, McAdams-DeMarco M, Verna EC, Rahimi R, Kappus MR, Dunn MA, Volk ML, Gurakar A, Duarte-Rojo A, Ganger DR, O'Leary JG, Ladner D, Garonzik-Wang J, Segev DL, Lai JC. Association Between Liver Transplant Wait-list Mortality and Frailty Based on Body Mass Index. JAMA surgery 2019. PMID: 31509169

Fozouni L, Wang CW, Lai JC. Sex Differences in the Association Between Frailty and Sarcopenia in Patients With Cirrhosis. Clinical and translational gastroenterology 2019. PMID: 31789932

Cullaro G, Rubin JB, Mehta N, Lai JC. The Differential Impact of Age Among Liver Transplant Candidates With and Without HCC. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2019. PMID: 31610089

Ge J, Lai JC. Identifying a clinically relevant cutoff for height that is associated with a higher risk of waitlist mortality in liver transplant candidates. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2019. PMID: 31597006

Kuo SZ, Ahmad M, Dunn MA, Montano-Loza AJ, Carey EJ, Lin S, Moghe A, Chen HW, Ebadi M, Lai JC. Sarcopenia Predicts Posttransplant Mortality in Acutely Ill Men Undergoing Urgent Evaluation and Liver Transplantation. Transplantation 2019. PMID: 30985575

Lai JC, Dodge JL, McCulloch CE, Covinsky KE, Singer JP. Frailty and the Burden of Concurrent and Incident Disability in Patients With Cirrhosis: A Prospective Cohort Study. Hepatology communications 2019. PMID: 31909360

Rubin JB, Srisengfa YT, Albhaisi S, Acharya C, Nangia G, Shaikh T, Thacker LR, Reddy KR, Tandon P, Bajaj JS, Lai JC. Hospitalized women with cirrhosis have more non-hepatic comorbidities and associated complications than men. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association 2019. PMID: 31593766

Williams FR, Berzigotti A, Lord JM, Lai JC, Armstrong MJ. Review article: impact of exercise on physical frailty in patients with chronic liver disease. Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics 2019. PMID: 31502264

Godfrey EL, Malik TH, Lai JC, Mindikoglu AL, Galván NTN, Cotton RT, O'Mahony CA, Goss JA, Rana A. The Decreasing Predictive Power of MELD in an Era of Changing Etiology of Liver Disease. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2019. PMID: 31394020

Carey EJ, Lai JC, Sonnenday C, Tapper EB, Tandon P, Duarte-Rojo A, Dunn MA, Tsien C, Kallwitz ER, Ng V, Dasarathy S, Kappus M, Bashir MR, Montano-Loza AJ. A North American Expert Opinion Statement on Sarcopenia in Liver Transplantation. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2019. PMID: 31220351

Ng VL, Mazariegos GV, Kelly B, Horslen S, McDiarmid SV, Magee JC, Loomes KM, Fischer RT, Sundaram SS, Lai JC, Te HS, Bucuvalas JC. Barriers to ideal outcomes after pediatric liver transplantation. Pediatric transplantation 2019. PMID: 31343109

Bajaj JS, O'Leary JG, Tandon P, Wong F, Garcia-Tsao G, Kamath PS, Biggins SW, Lai JC, Vargas HE, Maliakkal B, Fallon MB, Thuluvath PJ, Subramanian RM, Thacker LR, Reddy KR. Nosocomial Infections Are Frequent and Negatively Impact Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients With Cirrhosis. The American journal of gastroenterology 2019. PMID: 31180922

Kohi MP, Lai JC. Impact of Muscle Gain after Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Creation on Patients Awaiting Liver Transplantation. Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR 2019. PMID: 31126599

Lai JC, Sonnenday CJ, Tapper EB, Duarte-Rojo A, Dunn MA, Bernal W, Carey EJ, Dasarathy S, Kamath BM, Kappus MR, Montano-Loza AJ, Nagai S, Tandon P. Frailty in liver transplantation: An expert opinion statement from the American Society of Transplantation Liver and Intestinal Community of Practice. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2019. PMID: 30980701

Cullaro G, Hirose R, Lai JC. Changes in Simultaneous Liver Kidney Transplant Allocation Policy May Impact Post Liver Transplant Outcomes. Transplantation 2018. PMID: 30086097

Ge J, Lai JC. Split-Liver Allocation: An Underused Opportunity to Expand Access to Liver Transplantation. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2019. PMID: 30920162

Bajaj JS, O'Leary JG, Tandon P, Wong F, Kamath PS, Biggins SW, Garcia-Tsao G, Lai J, Fallon MB, Thuluvath PJ, Vargas HE, Maliakkal B, Subramanian RM, Thacker LR, Reddy KR. Targets to improve quality of care for patients with hepatic encephalopathy: data from a multi-centre cohort. Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics 2019. PMID: 31032966

Wang CW, Lebsack A, Chau S, Lai JC. The Range and Reproducibility of the Liver Frailty Index. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2019. PMID: 30884128

Wong F, Reddy KR, O'Leary JG, Tandon P, Biggins SW, Garcia-Tsao G, Maliakkal BJ, Lai JC, Fallon MB, Vargas HE, Subramanian R, Thuluvath PJ, Kamath PS, Thacker L, Bajaj JS. Impact of Chronic Kidney Disease on Outcomes in Cirrhosis. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2019. PMID: 30908855

Bajaj JS, Tandon P, O'Leary JG, Wong F, Biggins SW, Garcia-Tsao G, Kamath PS, Maliakkal B, Fallon MB, Lai JC, Thuluvath PJ, Vargas HE, Subramanian RM, Thacker LR, Reddy KR. Outcomes in Patients With Cirrhosis on Primary Compared to Secondary Prophylaxis for Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis. The American journal of gastroenterology 2019. PMID: 30694868

O'Leary JG, Bajaj JS, Tandon P, Biggins SW, Wong F, Kamath PS, Garcia-Tsao G, Maliakkal B, Lai J, Fallon M, Vargas HE, Thuluvath P, Subramanian R, Thacker LR, Reddy KR. Outcomes After Listing for Liver Transplant in Patients With Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure: The Multicenter North American Consortium for the Study of End-Stage Liver Disease Experience. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2019. PMID: 30724010

Rubin JB, Sinclair M, Rahimi RS, Tapper EB, Lai JC. Women on the liver transplantation waitlist are at increased risk of hospitalization compared to men. World journal of gastroenterology 2019. PMID: 30833803

Ge J, Hsu EK, Bucuvalas J, Lai JC. Deceased Pediatric Donor Livers: How Current Policy Drives Allocation and Transplantation. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2019. PMID: 30281806

Cullaro G, Verna EC, Lai JC. Association Between Renal Function Pattern and Mortality in Patients with Cirrhosis. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association 2019. PMID: 30716479

Lai JC, Rahimi RS, Verna EC, Kappus MR, Dunn MA, McAdams-DeMarco M, Haugen CE, Volk ML, Duarte-Rojo A, Ganger DR, O'Leary JG, Dodge JL, Ladner D, Segev DL. Frailty Associated With Waitlist Mortality Independent of Ascites and Hepatic Encephalopathy in a Multicenter Study. Gastroenterology 2019. PMID: 30668935

Perito ER, Bucuvalas J, Lai JC. Functional status at listing predicts waitlist and posttransplant mortality in pediatric liver transplant candidates. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2018. PMID: 30506640

Kobashigawa J, Dadhania D, Bhorade S, Adey D, Berger J, Bhat G, Budev M, Duarte-Rojo A, Dunn M, Hall S, Harhay MN, Johansen KL, Joseph S, Kennedy CC, Kransdorf E, Lentine KL, Lynch RJ, McAdams-DeMarco M, Nagai S, Olymbios M, Patel J, Pinney S, Schaenman J, Segev DL, Shah P, Singer LG, Singer JP, Sonnenday C, Tandon P, Tapper E, Tullius SG, Wilson M, Zamora M, Lai JC. Report from the American Society of Transplantation on frailty in solid organ transplantation. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2018. PMID: 30506632

Sarkar M, Lai JC, Sawinski D, Zeigler TE, Cedars M, Forde KA. Sex hormone levels by presence and severity of cirrhosis in women with chronic hepatitis C virus infection. Journal of viral hepatitis 2018. PMID: 30339729

Lai JC, Tandon P. How I Approach It: Improving Nutritional Status in Patients With Cirrhosis. The American journal of gastroenterology 2018. PMID: 29867180

Ebadi M, Wang CW, Lai JC, Dasarathy S, Kappus MR, Dunn MA, Carey EJ, Montano-Loza AJ. Poor performance of psoas muscle index for identification of patients with higher waitlist mortality risk in cirrhosis. Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle 2018. PMID: 30269421

Bajaj JS, Moreau R, Kamath PS, Vargas HE, Arroyo V, Reddy KR, Szabo G, Tandon P, Olson J, Karvellas C, Gustot T, Lai JC, Wong F. Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure: Getting Ready for Prime Time? Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2018. PMID: 29689120

Kuo SZ, Lizaola B, Hayssen H, Lai JC. Beta-blockers and physical frailty in patients with end-stage liver disease. World journal of gastroenterology 2018. PMID: 30197482

Chascsa DM, Lai JC, Dunn MA, Montano-Loza AJ, Kappus MR, Dasarathy S, Carey EJ. Patient and Caregiver Attitudes and Practices of Exercise in Candidates Listed for Liver Transplantation. Digestive diseases and sciences 2018. PMID: 30178285

Schwartz JB, Gallagher JC, Jorde R, Berg V, Walsh J, Eastell R, Evans AL, Bowles S, Naylor KE, Jones KS, Schoenmakers I, Holick M, Orwoll E, Nielson C, Kaufmann M, Jones G, Bouillon R, Lai J, Verotta D, Bikle D. Determination of Free 25(OH)D Concentrations and Their Relationships to Total 25(OH)D in Multiple Clinical Populations. The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 2018. PMID: 29955795

Bajaj JS, Vargas HE, Reddy KR, Lai JC, O'Leary JG, Tandon P, Wong F, Mitrani R, White MB, Kelly M, Fagan A, Patil R, Sait S, Sikaroodi M, Thacker LR, Gillevet PM. Association Between Intestinal Microbiota Collected at Hospital Admission and Outcomes of Patients With Cirrhosis. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association 2018. PMID: 30036646

Jury A, Lai J, Tuason C, Koning A, Smith M, Boyd L, Swanson C, Fergusson D, Gruar A. People who experience seclusion in adult mental health inpatient services: An examination of health of the nation outcome scales scores. International journal of mental health nursing 2018. PMID: 30010239

Cullaro G, Park M, Lai JC. "Normal" Creatinine Levels Predict Persistent Kidney Injury and Waitlist Mortality in Outpatients With Cirrhosis. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2018. PMID: 29698588

Bajaj JS, Tandon P, O'Leary JG, Biggins SW, Wong F, Kamath PS, Garcia-Tsao G, Maliakkal B, Lai JC, Fallon M, Thuluvath P, Vargas HE, Subramanian RM, Thacker LR, Reddy RK. The Impact of Albumin Use on Resolution of Hyponatremia in Hospitalized Patients With Cirrhosis. The American journal of gastroenterology 2018. PMID: 29880972

Ge J, Gilroy R, Lai JC. Receipt of a pediatric liver offer as the first offer reduces waitlist mortality for adult women. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2018. PMID: 29604217

Reuter B, Walter K, Bissonnette J, Leise MD, Lai J, Tandon P, Kamath PS, Biggins SW, Rose CF, Wade JB, Bajaj JS. Assessment of the spectrum of hepatic encephalopathy: A multicenter study. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2018. PMID: 29457869

Lai JC, Covinsky KE, Dodge JL, Boscardin WJ, Segev DL, Roberts JP, Feng S. Reply. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2018. PMID: 29377206

O'Leary JG, Reddy KR, Garcia-Tsao G, Biggins SW, Wong F, Fallon MB, Subramanian RM, Kamath PS, Thuluvath P, Vargas HE, Maliakkal B, Tandon P, Lai J, Thacker LR, Bajaj JS. NACSELD acute-on-chronic liver failure (NACSELD-ACLF) score predicts 30-day survival in hospitalized patients with cirrhosis. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2018. PMID: 29315693

Lai JC, Segev DL, McCulloch CE, Covinsky KE, Dodge JL, Feng S. Physical frailty after liver transplantation. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2018. PMID: 29380529

Puchades L, Chau S, Dodson JA, Mohamad Y, Mustain R, Lebsack A, Aguilera V, Prieto M, Lai JC. Association of Cardiac Abnormalities to the Frail Phenotype in Cirrhotic Patients on the Waitlist: From the Functional Assessment in Liver Transplantation Study. Transplantation 2018. PMID: 29189486

Lockett H, Lai J, Tuason C, Jury A, Fergusson D. Primary healthcare utilisation among adults with mood and anxiety disorders: an analysis of the New Zealand Health Survey. Journal of primary health care 2018. PMID: 30068454

Ge J, Roberts JP, Lai JC. A2 liver transplantation across the ABO barrier: Increasing options in the donor pool? Clinical liver disease 2018. PMID: 30992773

Cullaro G, Sarkar M, Lai JC. Sex-based disparities in delisting for being "too sick" for liver transplantation. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2017. PMID: 29194969

Bajaj JS, Reddy RK, Tandon P, Wong F, Kamath PS, Biggins SW, Garcia-Tsao G, Fallon M, Maliakkal B, Lai J, Vargas HE, Subramanian RM, Thuluvath P, Thacker LR, O'Leary JG. Prediction of Fungal Infection Development and Their Impact on Survival Using the NACSELD Cohort. The American journal of gastroenterology 2017. PMID: 29257141

Lai JC, Covinsky KE, McCulloch CE, Feng S. The Liver Frailty Index Improves Mortality Prediction of the Subjective Clinician Assessment in Patients With Cirrhosis. The American journal of gastroenterology 2017. PMID: 29231189

Fleming JN, Lai JC, Te HS, Said A, Spengler EK, Rogal SS. Opioid and opioid substitution therapy in liver transplant candidates: A survey of center policies and practices. Clinical transplantation 2017. PMID: 28941292

Spengler EK, O'Leary JG, Te HS, Rogal S, Pillai AA, Al-Osaimi A, Desai A, Fleming JN, Ganger D, Seetharam A, Tsoulfas G, Montenovo M, Lai JC. Liver Transplantation in the Obese Cirrhotic Patient. Transplantation 2017. PMID: 28930104

C Lai J. Transplant for the very sick: No limitations in donor quality? Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2017. PMID: 28734123

Hsu EK, Shaffer ML, Gao L, Sonnenday C, Volk ML, Bucuvalas J, Lai JC. Analysis of Liver Offers to Pediatric Candidates on the Transplant Wait List. Gastroenterology 2017. PMID: 28711630

Lai JC, Covinsky KE, Dodge JL, Boscardin WJ, Segev DL, Roberts JP, Feng S. Development of a novel frailty index to predict mortality in patients with end-stage liver disease. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2017. PMID: 28422306

Ge J, Roberts JP, Lai JC. Race/ethnicity is associated with ABO-nonidentical liver transplantation in the United States. Clinical transplantation 2017. PMID: 28517242

Wang CW, Lai JC. Reporting functional status in UNOS: The weakness of the Karnofsky Performance Status Scale. Clinical transplantation 2017. PMID: 28580753

Carey EJ, Lai JC, Wang CW, Dasarathy S, Lobach I, Montano-Loza AJ, Dunn MA. A multicenter study to define sarcopenia in patients with end-stage liver disease. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2017. PMID: 28240805

Salazar J, Saxena V, Kahn JG, Roberts JP, Mehta N, Volk M, Lai JC. Cost-Effectiveness of Direct-Acting Antiviral Treatment in Hepatitis C-Infected Liver Transplant Candidates With Compensated Cirrhosis and Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Transplantation 2017. PMID: 27926593

Samoylova ML, Covinsky KE, Haftek M, Kuo S, Roberts JP, Lai JC. Disability in patients with end-stage liver disease: Results from the functional assessment in liver transplantation study. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2017. PMID: 27884053

Sinclair M, Poltavskiy E, Dodge JL, Lai JC. Frailty is independently associated with increased hospitalisation days in patients on the liver transplant waitlist. World journal of gastroenterology 2017. PMID: 28223735

Lai JC. A framework to determine when liver transplantation is futile. Clinical liver disease 2016. PMID: 30294424

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Pavasini R, Guralnik J, Brown JC, di Bari M, Cesari M, Landi F, Vaes B, Legrand D, Verghese J, Wang C, Stenholm S, Ferrucci L, Lai JC, Bartes AA, Espaulella J, Ferrer M, Lim JY, Ensrud KE, Cawthon P, Turusheva A, Frolova E, Rolland Y, Lauwers V, Corsonello A, Kirk GD, Ferrari R, Volpato S, Campo G. Short Physical Performance Battery and all-cause mortality: systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC medicine 2016. PMID: 28003033

Kuo SZ, Haftek M, Lai JC. Factors Associated with Medication Non-adherence in Patients with End-Stage Liver Disease. Digestive diseases and sciences 2016. PMID: 27933471

Lai JC. Editorial: Advancing Adoption of Frailty to Improve the Care of Patients with Cirrhosis: Time for a Consensus on a Frailty Index. The American journal of gastroenterology 2016. PMID: 27924103

Lai JC, Volk ML, Strasburg D, Alexander N. Performance-Based Measures Associate With Frailty in Patients With End-Stage Liver Disease. Transplantation 2016. PMID: 27495749

Giard JM, Decker KA, Lai JC, Gill RM, Logan AC, Fix OK. Acute Liver Failure Secondary to Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis during Pregnancy. Volume 3 of Issue 4. ACG case reports journal 2016. PMID: 27921061

Bajaj JS, O'Leary JG, Tandon P, Wong F, Garcia-Tsao G, Kamath PS, Maliakkal B, Biggins SW, Thuluvath PJ, Fallon MB, Subramanian RM, Vargas HE, Lai J, Thacker LR, Reddy KR. Hepatic Encephalopathy Is Associated With Mortality in Patients With Cirrhosis Independent of Other Extrahepatic Organ Failures. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association 2016. PMID: 27720916

Kathpalia P, Smith A, Lai JC. Underutilization of palliative care services in the liver transplant population. World journal of transplantation 2016. PMID: 27683638

Wang CW, Feng S, Covinsky KE, Hayssen H, Zhou LQ, Yeh BM, Lai JC. A Comparison of Muscle Function, Mass, and Quality in Liver Transplant Candidates: Results From the Functional Assessment in Liver Transplantation Study. Transplantation 2016. PMID: 27314169

Lai JC, Roberts JP. ABO-Nonidentical Liver Transplantation in the United States. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2016. PMID: 26932134

Lai JC. Defining the threshold for too sick for transplant. Current opinion in organ transplantation 2016. PMID: 26825359

Lai JC, Covinsky KE, Hayssen H, Lizaola B, Dodge J, Roberts JP, Terrault NA, Feng S. Response to clinical assessments of health status as a potential marker to identify patients who are too sick to undergo transplantation. Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver 2016. PMID: 26584013

Lai JC, Dodge JL, Sen S, Covinsky K, Feng S. Functional decline in patients with cirrhosis awaiting liver transplantation: Results from the functional assessment in liver transplantation (FrAILT) study. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2015. PMID: 26517301

Wang CW, Covinsky KE, Feng S, Hayssen H, Segev DL, Lai JC. Functional impairment in older liver transplantation candidates: From the functional assessment in liver transplantation study. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2015. PMID: 26359787

Kwong AJ, Lai JC, Dodge JL, Roberts JP. Outcomes for liver transplant candidates listed with low model for end-stage liver disease score. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2015. PMID: 26289624

Saxena V, Lai JC. Kidney Failure and Liver Allocation: Current Practices and Potential Improvements. Advances in chronic kidney disease 2015. PMID: 26311601

Volk ML, Goodrich N, Lai JC, Sonnenday C, Shedden K. Decision support for organ offers in liver transplantation. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2015. PMID: 25779757

Campos-Varela I, Lai JC, Verna EC, O'Leary JG, Todd Stravitz R, Forman LM, Trotter JF, Brown RS, Terrault NA. Hepatitis C genotype influences post-liver transplant outcomes. Transplantation 2015. PMID: 25211520

Lai JC, Bikle DD, Lizaola B, Hayssen H, Terrault NA, Schwartz JB. Total 25(OH) vitamin D, free 25(OH) vitamin D and markers of bone turnover in cirrhotics with and without synthetic dysfunction. Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver 2015. PMID: 25757956

Lai JC, Covinsky KE, Hayssen H, Lizaola B, Dodge JL, Roberts JP, Terrault NA, Feng S. Clinician assessments of health status predict mortality in patients with end-stage liver disease awaiting liver transplantation. Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver 2015. PMID: 25644788

Lai JC, Shoback DM, Zipperstein J, Lizaola B, Tseng S, Terrault NA. Bone Mineral Density, Bone Turnover, and Systemic Inflammation in Non-cirrhotics with Chronic Hepatitis C. Volume 60 of Issue 6. Digestive diseases and sciences 2015. PMID: 25563723

Bissell DM, Lai JC, Meister RK, Blanc PD. Role of delta-aminolevulinic acid in the symptoms of acute porphyria. Volume 128 of Issue 3. The American journal of medicine 2014. PMID: 25446301

Sharpton SR, Feng S, Hameed B, Yao F, Lai JC. Combined effects of recipient age and model for end-stage liver disease score on liver transplantation outcomes. Transplantation 2014. PMID: 24717221

Lai JC, Covinsky K, Feng S. The octogenarian donor: can the liver be "younger than stated age"? American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2014. PMID: 25307032

Feng S, Lai JC. Expanded criteria donors. Clinics in liver disease 2014. PMID: 25017080

Lai JC, Feng S, Terrault NA, Lizaola B, Hayssen H, Covinsky K. Frailty predicts waitlist mortality in liver transplant candidates. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2014. PMID: 24935609

Schwartz JB, Lai J, Lizaola B, Kane L, Markova S, Weyland P, Terrault NA, Stotland N, Bikle D. A comparison of measured and calculated free 25(OH) vitamin D levels in clinical populations. The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 2014. PMID: 24483159

Schwartz JB, Lai J, Lizaola B, Kane L, Weyland P, Terrault NA, Stotland N, Bikle D. Variability in free 25(OH) vitamin D levels in clinical populations. The Journal of steroid biochemistry and molecular biology 2013. PMID: 24240067

Lai JC, Kahn JG, Tavakol M, Peters MG, Roberts JP. Reducing infection transmission in solid organ transplantation through donor nucleic acid testing: a cost-effectiveness analysis. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2013. PMID: 24034208

Lai JC, Feng S, Vittinghoff E, Roberts JP. Offer patterns of nationally placed livers by donation service area. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2013. PMID: 23447450

Halldorson JB, Paarsch HJ, Dodge JL, Segre AM, Lai J, Roberts JP. Center competition and outcomes following liver transplantation. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2013. PMID: 23086897