Research Program

It is our goal to train future leaders in transplant hepatology who will provide excellent care, but also advance the field by innovative research. Our transplant hepatology fellows are expected to engage in our research program besides their clinical training. Most fellows choose to be involved in our clinical outcome research projects under the guidance of our staff hepatologists and surgeons. Various basic science opportunities exist for trainees with specific interests.

Our liver transplant program maintains a large database with over 3000 liver transplant recipients. It contains a unique patient population, such as a large number of patients with living donor liver transplantation, transplants with extensive hepatocellular carcinoma (Toronto criteria), or multi-organ transplantation. We provide a database manager and analyst and a statistician to support the fellows in their clinical outcome research projects.