Transplant Hepatology Fellowship
Director: Robert Fontana, MD
Transplant Hepatology Application Form Please click on link and complete the application form online.Applications for the 2010 Fourth-Year Transplant Hepatology Fellowship Program are now closed. Please use the link above to apply for the 2011 fellowship year. Please contact Jeannette Miclette at jeannett@med.umich.edu or (734) 615-8468 if you have questions.
Objectives
The Transplant Hepatology Fellowship is a 1-year training program for candidates who have already completed a 3-year ABIM-certified Gastroenterology fellowship. The objective of the Transplant Hepatology Fellowship is to provide outstanding clinical and research training so that candidates become independent hepatology consultants, qualify for UNOS certification as a transplant hepatologist, and meet all criteria for the ABIM Certificate of Added Qualification (CAQ) in transplant hepatology. Upon completion of the program, the fellow will be competent in evaluating and managing liver transplant candidates with acute and chronic liver failure and in evaluating and managing transplant recipients during the peri-operative and post-transplant period. The Fellow will also become competent in the care of patients with a variety of acute and chronic liver diseases including the management of acute liver failure, complications of portal hypertension, and liver cancer.
Clinical Training
Per ACGME requirements, Transplant Hepatology Fellowship candidates are required to have completed a 3-year categorical ABIM-certified Gastroenterology Fellowship prior to this additional year of advanced training. About 70% of the Transplant Hepatology Fellowship will be devoted to clinical activities. Rotations offered during the 1-year fellowship include inpatient hepatology ward and consultation services, outpatient transplant hepatology and general hepatology clinics, liver pathology, liver radiology, and pediatric hepatology. In the multidisciplinary liver transplant clinics, the transplant hepatology fellow will become familiar with the evaluation of patients with advanced liver disease including management of ascites, encephalopathy, variceal bleeding, and treatment options for liver cancer. The Transplant Hepatology fellow will see patients in the clinic and follow them both pre- perioperatively and postoperatively under the supervision of Hepatology faculty. The toxicity of immunosuppressive medications as well as the management of rejection and vascular, biliary, and infectious complications after transplantation will be emphasized. In addition, fellows will be exposed to transplant immunology, pediatric liver transplantation, living donor liver transplantation, and research opportunities in transplant hepatology.
Conferences
The University of Michigan Transplant Hepatology program supports its educational mission with a variety of educational activities. Liver conferences that are held on a weekly basis during the academic year include: Liver Pathology, Clinical Case Presentations, and Journal Club. In addition, multidisciplinary liver transplant patient evaluation conferences are held weekly. Multidisciplinary transplant conferences are held twice monthly including Morbidity and Mortality Conference as well as Transplant Grand Rounds. In addition, many of the GI Division Grand Rounds presentations are dedicated to liver disease topics. Both internal and external speakers present at these conferences with about 12 visiting professors per year. The Transplant Hepatology Fellow will be expected to attend and participate in the monthly Hepatology Research Conference and attend the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases annual meeting.
Past and Current Fellows
The University of Michigan Liver Transplant Program was established in 1986. Over the past 20 years, many individuals have completed formal training in Gastroenterology with a focus in Transplant Hepatology including: Dr. Kim Brown- Division Chief of Gastroenterology at Henry Ford Hospital; Dr. Michael Lucey- Division Chief of Gastroenterology at the University of Wisconsin; Dr. Mary Ann Sherbondy- Transplant hepatologist at Henry Ford Hospital; Dr. Khozema Hussain- Assistant Professor at Baylor University, Houston; Dr. Ryan Taylor- Faculty member at the Kansas Medical Center; Dr. Hellan Kang- Transplant hepatologist at the University of Michigan.
Transplant Hepatology Faculty
Robert J Fontana, MD, Director, Transplant Hepatology Fellowship
Anna SF Lok, MD, FRCP,
Director, Clinical Hepatology Program
Fred K Askari, MD, PhD
Hari S Conjeevaram, MD, MS
Helen Kang , MD
Jorge A Marrero, MD, MS
Richard H Moseley, MD
Pratima Sharma, MD, MS
Grace L Su, MD
Rebecca W Van Dyke, MD
Michael L Volk, MD, MS
Applications for the 2010 Fourth-Year Transplant Hepatology Fellowship Program are now closed. Please use the link above to apply for the 2011 fellowship year. Please contact Jeannette Miclette at jeannett@med.umich.edu or (734) 615-8468 if you have questions.
