The UCSD staff offers the most comprehensive and advanced medical treatment available today. The UCSD Liver Center is headed by several renowned liver specialist in both the medical and surgical fields, and is staffed by a team of dedicated and experienced health care professionals. The staff includes liver specialist, hepatologist, who are physicians specializing in liver disease, liver transplant surgeons, invasive pathologists, nurse specialists, pharmacist, social workers, research coordinators and liver transplant coordinators. Together, they work as an integrated team to provide the highest quality care, treating not only your disease, but working with you as an individual for comprehensive, personalized care. The UCSD Liver Center combines medical care with clinical research to offer the latest treatments.
Research enable the staff to develop expertise in a variety of new areas.
Ongoing research includes clinical and basic research in the management of viral hepatitis, portal hypertension, and alcoholic liver diseases. Other areas of research include new immunosuppression regimes for liver transplant patients. The Center offers ongoing liver disease support groups in English and Spanish for patients and their families. Our newsletter, Transplant Talk , is mailed bi-monthly to all of our patients and health care professionals. If you have liver disease and would like to discuss your case with a specialist, please call us to make an appointment.