Jin Ge, MD

Assistant Professor

I am a gastroenterologist and transplant hepatologist who cares for patients with liver diseases, including patients waiting for a liver transplant. My research focuses on using clinical informatics, data science and artificial intelligence to improve care for patients with complex medical issues and advanced liver disease. In particular, I hope to develop technologies that can lead to better outcomes for patients hospitalized with liver disease.

After earning a bachelor’s degree in engineering at Princeton University, I earned my combined medical and business degrees at the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. I completed a residency in internal medicine and fellowships in gastroenterology and transplant hepatology at UCSF. While at UCSF, I also completed a certificate program in advanced clinical research training, with a focus on data science. I am a faculty member in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology in the UCSF Department of Medicine, an affiliate faculty in the UCSF Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, and an affiliate faculty in the UCSF-UC Berkeley Joint Program in Computational Precision Health.

Education
ATCR, 2020 - , University of California-San Francisco
MBA, 2015 - , University of Pennsylvania
MD, 2015 - , University of Pennsylvania
BSE, 2008 - , Princeton University
Honors and Awards
  • Young Investigator Workshop, AASLD and APASL, 2023
  • Best Oral Presentation at APASL 2023, Asian Pacific Association for Study of the Liver (APASL), 2023
  • Academic Skills Workshop, AASLD and AGA, 2022
  • Anna S. Lok Advanced/Transplant Hepatology Award, AASLD, 2021
  • Young Physician Leadership Scholars Program, American College of Gastroenterology, 2021
  • LICOP Pilot Grant Award, American Society of Transplantation, 2021
  • Bissell Liver Scholar Award, UCSF Liver Center, 2021
  • Young Investigators Forum Research Award, Controversies in Transplantation Conference, 2020
  • Division of Gastroenterology Clinical Fellow Award, University of California, San Francisco, 2019
  • Department of Medicine Rector Clinical Science Research Award, University of California, San Francisco, 2018
  • CTSI Resident Research Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, 2017
  • Emerging Liver Scholar, AASLD, 2016
  • Alpha Omega Alpha, University of Pennsylvania, 2015
  • Healthcare Management Academic Excellence Award, University of Pennsylvania, 2015
  • Palmer Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, 2015
  • Kaiser Permanente Corporate Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2013
  • Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Research Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2011
  • Truman G. Schnabel and Cordelia W. Hopeman Scholarship, University of Pennsylvania, 2010-2015
Publications

  1. 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


  2. 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


  3. Lee SB, Dai R, French E, Anzalone JA, Olex AL, Ge J, Schissel M, Agarwal G, Vinson A, Madhira V, Mannon RB, N3C Consortium. Risk factors for severe outcomes of coronavirus disease 2019 through the waves of the pandemic: Comparing patients with and without solid organ transplantation. Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society 2024. PMID: 38980969


  4. Ge J, Kim WR, Kwong AJ. Common Definitions and Variables are Needed for the United States to Join the Conversation on Acute on Chronic Liver Failure. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2024. PMID: 38977243


  5. 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


  6. 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


  7. 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


  8. 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


  9. 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


  10. 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


  11. 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


  12. 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


  13. Shingina A, Bansal N, Cedars A, Chen S, Daugherty T, Emamaullee J, Ganger D, Ge J, Heller T, Hughes D, Kay J, Ortega Legaspi J, Menachem J, Montenovo M, Sack J, Reardon L, Schiano T, Simpson K, Teuteberg J, Tompkins R, Vodkin I, Wu F, Lui G. Combined Heart Liver Transplantation in the Patients with Advanced Liver Disease and/or Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Why Can't Liver Pull the Heart? American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2023. PMID: 37839708


  14. Wiedel NA, Sayles H, Larson J, Wardian JL, Hewlett A, McClay J, Ge J, Anzalone AJ, N3C consortium. Associations between COVID-19 therapies and inpatient gastrointestinal bleeding: A multisite retrospective study. Journal of medical virology 2023. PMID: 37786247


  15. 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


  16. 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


  17. 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


  18. 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


  19. 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


  20. 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


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


  22. 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


  23. 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


  24. 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


  25. 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


  26. 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


  27. 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


  28. 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


  29. 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


  30. 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


  31. 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


  32. 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


  33. 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


  34. Kim NJ, Rozenberg-Ben-Dror K, Jacob DA, Rich N, Singal AG, Aby ES, Yang JD, Nguyen V, Pillai A, Fuchs M, Moon AM, Shroff H, Agarwal PD, Perumalswami P, Chandna S, Zhou K, Patel YA, Latt NL, Wong R, Duarte-Rojo A, Lindenmeyer CC, Frenette C, Ge J, Mehta N, Yao F, Benhammou JN, Bloom PP, Leise M, Kim HS, Levy C, Barnard A, Khalili M, Ioannou GN. Provider attitudes toward risk-based hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance in patients with cirrhosis in the U.S. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association 2020. PMID: 32927050


  35. 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


  36. 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


  37. 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


  38. 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


  39. 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


  40. 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


  41. 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


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


  43. Ge J, Goldschlager N. A Patient With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Presenting in Cardiac Arrest. Volume 177 of Issue 4. 2017. PMID: 28166323


  44. Ge J, Groh C, Goldschlager N. Alternating QRS Complex Morphologic Characteristics in a Man Presenting With Scrotal Edema. Volume 177 of Issue 1. 2017. PMID: 27893890


  45. Ge J, Verma V, Hollander A, Langer C, Simone CB. Pemetrexed-induced radiation recall dermatitis in a patient with lung adenocarcinoma: case report and literature review. Volume 8 of Issue 12. 2016. PMID: 28149588


  46. Ge J, Kiet T. Role of PET/CT in Evaluating for Occult Gram-Positive Bacteremia. Volume 32 of Issue 4. 2016. PMID: 27798783


  47. Ge J, Fishman J, Vapiwala N, Li SQ, Desai K, Xie SX, Mao JJ. Patient-physician communication about complementary and alternative medicine in a radiation oncology setting. Volume 85 of Issue 1. 2012. PMID: 23040545