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Topics in Clinical Islet and Pancreas Transplantation

Saturday October 23, 2021 - 15:40 to 16:45

Room: Virtual Room 1

407.2 Is There a Role for Bariatric Surgery in Pancreas Transplant Patients?

Andrew M. Posselt, United States

Professor of Surgery
Director, Pancreatic Islet Transplant Program
University of California, San Francisco

Biography

Dr. Andrew Posselt is an attending multi-organ transplant surgeon at UCSF and Director of the ABO-Incompatible Kidney Transplant Program as well as Co-director of the Pancreatic Islet Transplant Program and the Bariatric Surgery Program. Dr. Posselt specializes in adult and pediatric kidney, liver and pancreas transplantation; laparoscopic donor nephrectomy; and laparoscopic as well as open bariatric surgery. Dr. Posselt's current research interests include: 1) transplantation of pancreatic islets for the treatment of type 1 diabetes mellitus; 2) assessment of long-term renal function in kidney donors after donor nephrectomy; 3) immunologic and tolerogenic properties of embryonic stem cells; and 4) bariatric surgery in patients awaiting transplant.

Presentations by Andrew M. Posselt