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Ryutaro Hirose, M.D.
- Professor of Surgery
- Division of Transplant Surgery
- Vice Chair of Clinical Operations and Value
- Associate Program Director,
- UCSF General Surgery Residency Program
- Surgical Medical Director, Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR).
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(415) 353-1888 Clinical, Liver
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(415) 353-1551 Clinical, Kidney and Pancreas
(415) 353-8783 Academic
[email protected]
Education
- Columbia College, Columbia University, B.A., Mathematics, 1981-85
- Columbia University College of Physicians And Surgeons, M.D., 1985-89
Residencies
- University of California, San Francisco, Intern and Resident, Surgery, 1989-92
- University of California, San Francisco, Resident, Surgery, 1995-96
- University of California, San Francisco, Chief Resident, Surgery, 1996-97
Postdoctoral Training
- University of California, San Francisco, Postdoctoral Fellow, Molecular Medicine, 1992-95
Clinical Expertise
- Bile Duct Cancer (Cholangiocarcinoma)
- Bile Duct Injuries
- Bile Duct Strictures
- Complex Cancer Resections
- Fulminant Hepatic Failure
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Hepatocellular Carcinoma (Liver Cancer)
- Kidney Transplantation
- Liver Resection
- Liver Transplantation
- Living Donor Kidney Transplantation
- Living Donor Liver Transplantation
- Pancreas Transplants
- Pediatric Kidney Transplantation
- Pediatric Liver Transplantation
- Portal Hypertension
- Radio Frequency Ablation (RFA)
- Surgical Shunts
Biography
Ryutaro Hirose, M.D. is a professor of surgery and Vice Chair of Clinical Operations and Value. He is also Surgical Medical Director of the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR).
Dr. Hirose performs liver, kidney and pancreas transplants. After graduating from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, he completed his clinical and research training at UCSF as a resident in general surgery as well as a fellow in molecular medicine and transplantation surgery. His research interests include renal and hepatic ischemia - reperfusion injury, immune monitoring and skin cancer in transplant recipients. He has received funding from the NIH, NKF, UCSF, ASTS, and private industry. He is also actively involved with teaching students and residents.
Research Overview
Dr. Hirose's research focus is ischemia-reperfusion injury and potential interventions to ameliorate renal and hepatic I-R injury. His group uses animal models, performs clinical and translational research as well as research on deceased donors. He collaborates with Dr. Claus Niemann, MD from the Dept. Anesthesia and they are co-Directors of the Ischemic Organ Injury Lab.
Clinical Trials
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- Study ID: NCT02081755Start Date: Mar 2014Estimated Completion Date: Jan 2021Condition(s): Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Liver Cancer, Liver Transplant
Publications
MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 119
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- Meier RPH, Nunez M, Syed SM, Feng S, Tavakol M, Freise CE, Roberts JP, Ascher NL, Hirose R, Roll GR. DCD liver transplant in patients with a MELD over 35. Front Immunol. 2023; 14:1246867. View in PubMed
- Yilma M, Cogan R, Shui AM, Neuhaus JM, Light C, Braun H, Mehta N, Hirose R. Community-level social vulnerability and individual socioeconomic status on liver transplant referral outcome. Hepatol Commun. 2023 07 01; 7(7). View in PubMed
- Yilma M, Dalal N, Wadhwani SI, Hirose R, Mehta N. Geographic disparities in access to liver transplantation. Liver Transpl. 2023 09 01; 29(9):987-997. View in PubMed
- Snyder JJ, Schaffhausen CR, Hart A, Axelrod DA, Dils D, Formica RN, Gaber AO, Hunt HF, Jones J, Mohan S, Patzer RE, Pinney SP, Ratner LE, Slaker D, Stewart D, Stewart ZA, Van Slyck S, Kasiske BL, Hirose R, Israni AK. Stakeholders' perspectives on transplant metrics: the 2022 Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients' consensus conference. Am J Transplant. 2023 07; 23(7):875-890. View in PubMed
- Hart A, Patzer RE, Spear J, Hirose R, Tabatabai A, Wood NL, Schaffhausen CR, Axelrod DA, Israni AK, Snyder JJ. Time to discard the term "discard". Am J Transplant. 2023 05; 23(5):608-610. View in PubMed
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Videos
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- Live Donor Liver Transplants and Surgery for Non-HCC
- UCSF Kidney Transplant Update: State of Transplantation, New Drugs, New Trials, Transplant Controversies
- 2010 Kidney Transplant: Update New Methods to Detect Anti-HLA Antibodies, Current Protocols for Patients with Donor Specific Antibodies
- UCSF Kidney Transplant Update 2011: Biomarkers to Monitor Immunosuppression
- Kidney Transplants: Who Needs One? How Do We Do It?
In the News
- UCSF General Surgery Residency Program - - December 16, 2020Mignote Yilma, M.D., a general surgery resident, was accepted into the National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP) at UCSF, starting in the 2021-22 academic year. The NCSP is a prestigious two-year post-doctoral fellowship that trains scholars in community-partnered research, implementation and dissemination sciences, and health system transformation. The goal of the program is to train healthcare leaders to work in diverse settings and cultivate health equity. As one of five NCSP Scholars, Dr. [...]
- UCSF Department of Surgery - December 03, 2020(Greenwich, CT – December 3, 2020) Guinness World Records officially recognized the National Kidney Registry (NKR) for the longest kidney transplant chain in the world. This massive chain was supported by the combined efforts of 25 transplant centers, it included 70 surgeries, facilitated 35 transplants and was featured on ABC News's Nightline. "Kathy Hart, a Good Samaritan donor, started Chain 357, the longest chain in the world, on January 6th, 2015. Her generous gift to a stranger beganat [...]
- UCSF Department of Surgery - - September 04, 2020We are pleased to announce that Dr. Ryutaro Hirose has been named the inaugural Vice Chair of Clinical Operations and Value in the Department of Surgery. In his new role, Dr. Hirose will foster excellence and integration of our clinical practices within the UCSF Health System and its partners, and he will work together with surgical leaders at ZSFGH and the SFVA for clinical program development. He will promote efficient, cost effective, and accessible patient care, working to maximize revenues [...]
- UCSF News Services - - February 06, 2020The Organ Procurement Transplantation Network (OPTN) recently updated the liver distribution policy to provide better efficiency and fairness for transplant patients – regardless where they live, what hospital they choose for care or how sick they must be before being likely to get a transplant – and a UC San Francisco transplant surgeon was instrumental in its development. UCSF Health transplant surgeon Ryutaro Hirose, M.D. was former chair of the OPTN Liver and Intestinal Organ [...]
- SRTR News - - November 20, 2019UCSF transplant surgeon Ryutaro Hirose, M.D. has been appointed Surgical Medical Director of the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR). Below is the official announcement: The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) is pleased to announce the addition of Dr. Ryutaro (Ryo) Hirose as Surgical Director of the SRTR. Dr. Hirose serves as Professor of Clinical Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and will continue in that role while lending his [...]
- Department of Surgery - - August 23, 2018The UCSF General Surgery Residency was ranked No. 1 in research output and by reputation among sister programs in California and across the western U.S. in the Doximity 2018-19 annual survey. Nationally, the program placed in the 99th percentile for research output. The residency program is led by Department Chair Julie Ann Sosa, M.D., M.A., FACS, Program Director Linda M. Reilly, M.D., Associate Directors Ryutaro Hirose, M.D., Kenzo Hirose, M.D., and Lygia Stewart, M.D., and Administrative [...]
- UCSF Department of Surgery - - October 02, 2017The Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators presented seven Department of Surgery faculty with the Excellence in Teaching Award for 2017 at a ceremony on September 11th at the UCSF School of Nursing, held in conjunction with the Academy's induction of new members. The Academy's Excellence in Teaching Awards are peer-nominated, and honor outstanding front-line teachers of medical students, residents, and fellows who often go unrecognized. These teachers create and encourage an intellectually [...]
- UCSF Transplant Surgery - - June 01, 2017ABC News San Francisco (KGO) reports on the case of a Utah man, recovering from a lung transplant in Pennsylvania after a Utah hospital refused to put him on their transplant list because of past marijuana use. (The man subsequently died after the airing of the KGO story.) UCSF transplant surgeon, Ryutaro Hirose, M.D., was interviewed by KGO and regarding the policy on this is issue at UCSF. "We've recently liberalized our criteria regarding marijuana," said Dr. Ryutaro Hirose who is a [...]
- UCSF Transplant Surgery - - July 30, 2015UCSF News reports on a just published study in the The New England Journal of Medicine in which mild hypothermia in deceased organ donors was found to significantly reduce delayed graft function in kidney transplant recipients compared with normal body temperature. The lead author of the study is Claus Niemann, MD, Professor of Anesthesia and Surgery at UCSF, and co-Director of the Ischemic Organ Injury Lab. The findings in the study could lead to an increase in the availability of kidneys for [...]
- UCSF Transplant Surgery - December 28, 2012Alfonso Garcia and his parents pose with the UCSF medical team that cared for him during his 2010 life-saving liver transplant. From left: mother Marta Garcia; Emily Perito, MD; nurse practitioner Susan Diaz, MSN; Garcia; Philip Rosenthal, MD; and father Oscar Garcia. Alfonso Garcia still carries around a baseball cap that belonged to a 22-year-old man who passed away in 2010 having never met him. But the cap is just a small token of an even bigger reminder that the 18-year-old college [...]
- UCSF Transplant Surgery - March 15, 2012"Neither man had a donor who was a match. But each had a family member willing to donate a kidney to a stranger, allowing them all to be part of chain which would, in turn, give Baty and Cienfuegos kidneys from other strangers. With 17 participating hospitals in 11 states, the chain consisted of 30 people willing to give up their kidney, matched with 30 more who needed one to survive. UCSF surgeons Andrew Posselt, M.D., Ph.D. and Ryutaro Hirose, M.D., performed the transplants on Baty and [...]
- UCSF Transplant Surgery - October 20, 2011UCSF News reports on the award of a $2 million grant by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to a team led by Claus Niemann, MD, Associate Professor in the UCSF Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care and co-Director of the Ischemic Organ Injury Lab to improve outcomes in organ donor transplantation. The grant was awarded to Niemann and his collaborators including John Feiner, MD, as well as Ryutaro Hirose, MD, and John Roberts, MD, chief of the UCSF Transplant [...]
- UCSF Transplant Surgery - March 23, 2011"Previously, Uruguay had tried to go it alone, but high mortality rates soon caused doctors to shut the program down. After their initial visit, the UCSF transplant team, including anesthesiologist Claus U. Niemann, MD (pictured first), and surgeons Ryutaro Hirose, MD (pictured second), and Peter Stock, MD, PhD, (pictured third) continued to consult with the team in Uruguay, guiding them through everything from patient selection procedures to the use of immunosuppressive medications [...]
- UCSF Transplant Surgery - August 22, 2000"The next day, surgeons at the University of California at San Francisco performed a rare liver transplant called a ``domino transplant,'' the first in the Bay Area and one of just a handful done in the United States. ........................Her choice was to have a liver that will give her a disease in 30 years, or die of cancer in the next year,'' said Dr. Ryutaro Hirose (pictured left), the surgeon for both transplants. ``She jumped at the chance, and most people would.''
