Andrew S. Klein, MD
Esther and Mark Schulman Chair in Surgery and Transplantation Medicine
Director, Transplant
Director, Comprehensive Transplant Center
Director, Division of Transplant Surgery
Professor, Surgery
Clinical Office
Comprehensive Transplant Center
8900 Beverly Blvd - 3rd Floor
Los Angeles, CA
90048
Phone:
310-423-2641
Andrew S. Klein, MD
Esther and Mark Schulman Chair in Surgery and Transplantation Medicine
Director, Transplant
Director, Comprehensive Transplant Center
Director, Division of Transplant Surgery
Professor, Surgery
Specialty
- Surgery-General Surgery
- Surgery/Transplant Surgery
Subspecialty
- Fatty Liver Disease
- Gastrointestinal Oncology
- Liver Transplant
Education
- Medical School: Johns Hopkins Medical School, 1979
- Residency: Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1982
- Residency: Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1986
- Fellowship: UCLA Medical Center, 1988
- Master's: John Hopkins, 2001
Cedars-Sinai Affiliations
Awards & Activities
- Editorial Board: Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Current
- Editorial Board: Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Diseases International, Current
- MBA Student of the Year, Johns Hopkins University, 2002
- American Association for the Study of Liver Disease, 1999
- Clinician Scientist Award, Johns Hopkins University, 1991
Publications
- He Y, Wu GD, Sadahiro T, Noh SI, Wang H, Talavera D, Wang H, Vierling JM, Klein AS: Interaction of CD44 and Hyaluronic Acid Enhances Biliary Epithelial Proliferation in Cholestatic Livers. Am. J. Physiol. Gastrointest. Liver Physiol., , 2008
- Klein AS, Cofer JB, Pruett TL, Thuluvath PJ, McGory R, Uber L, Stevenson WC, Baliga P, Burdick JF: Prostaglandin E1 administration following orthotopic liver transplantation: a randomized prospective multicenter trial. Gastroenterology, 111(3): 710-5, 1996
- Klein AS, Zhadkevich M, Wang D, Margolick JB, Winkelstein JA, Bulkley GB: Discriminant quantitation of posttransplant hepatic reticuloendothelial function. The impact of ischemic preservation. Transplantation, 61(8): 1156-61, 1996
Languages Spoken
English
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