Research Funding

  • September 1, 2002 - August 31, 2015 - Living Donor Liver Transplant :Short & Long-Term Impact on Donors and Recipients , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: U01DK062444

Education

2019 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
Transplant Fellowship, 1995 - School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Post-Doc Fellow/Scholar, 1991 - School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
M.D., 1986 - School of Medicine, University of Minnesota

Selected Publications

  1. 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 on PubMed
  2. Meier RPH, Kelly Y, Yamaguchi S, Braun HJ, Lunow-Luke T, Adelmann D, Niemann C, Maluf DG, Dietch ZC, Stock PG, Kang SM, Feng S, Posselt AM, Gardner JM, Syed SM, Hirose R, Freise CE, Ascher NL, Roberts JP, Roll GR. Advantages and Limitations of Clinical Scores for Donation After Circulatory Death Liver Transplantation. Front Surg. 2021; 8:808733.  View on PubMed
  3. Chipman V, Cooper M, Thomas AG, Ronin M, Lee B, Flechner S, Leeser D, Segev DL, Mandelbrot DA, Lunow-Luke T, Syed S, Hil G, Freise CE, Waterman AD, Roll GR. Motivations and outcomes of compatible living donor-recipient pairs in paired exchange. Am J Transplant. 2022 01; 22(1):266-273.  View on PubMed
  4. Braun HJ, Grab JD, Dodge JL, Syed SM, Roll GR, Schwab MP, Liu IH, Glencer AC, Freise CE, Roberts JP, Ascher NL. Retransplantation After Living Donor Liver Transplantation: Data from the Adult to Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Study. Transplantation. 2021 06 01; 105(6):1297-1302.  View on PubMed
  5. Thiessen C, Arslan G, Roberts J, Freise C. Biliary obstruction following ureteral revision of a transplanted kidney. Am J Transplant. 2021 04; 21(4):1657-1659.  View on PubMed
  6. Wisel SA, Thiessen C, Day R, Belin LJ, Syed SM, Hirose R, Ascher N, Roberts JP, Freise CE. Setting rules for the sandbox: A response to "Successfully sharing the sandbox: A perspective on combined DCD liver and heart donor procurement". Am J Transplant. 2021 05; 21(5):1981-1982.  View on PubMed
  7. Fung M, Nambiar A, Pandey S, Aldrich JM, Teraoka J, Freise C, Roberts J, Chandran S, Hays SR, Bainbridge E, DeVoe C, Roque Gardner A, Yokoe D, Henrich TJ, Babik JM, Chin-Hong P. Treatment of immunocompromised COVID-19 patients with convalescent plasma. Transpl Infect Dis. 2021 Apr; 23(2):e13477.  View on PubMed
  8. Braun HJ, Schwab MP, Jin C, Amara D, Mehta NJ, Grace TR, Croci R, Freise CE, Roberts JP, Hirose R, Ascher NL. Opioid use prior to liver transplant is associated with increased risk of death after transplant. Am J Surg. 2021 07; 222(1):234-240.  View on PubMed
  9. Atreya CE, Collisson EA, Park M, Grenert JP, Behr SC, Gonzalez A, Chou J, Maisel S, Friedlander TW, Freise CE, Shoji J, Semrad TJ, Van Ziffle J, Chin-Hong P. Molecular Insights in Transmission of Cancer From an Organ Donor to Four Transplant Recipients. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2020 11; 18(11):1446-1452.  View on PubMed
  10. Gomez A, Wisneski AD, Luu HY, Hirose K, Roberts JP, Hirose R, Freise CE, Nakakura EK, Corvera CU. Contemporary Management of Hepatic Cyst Disease: Techniques and Outcomes at a Tertiary Hepatobiliary Center. J Gastrointest Surg. 2021 01; 25(1):77-84.  View on PubMed
  11. Meier RPH, Noguchi H, Kelly YM, Sarwal M, Conti G, Ward C, Halleluyan R, Tavakol M, Stock PG, Freise CE. Impact of Sarcopenia on Simultaneous Pancreas and Kidney Transplantation Outcomes: A Retrospective Observational Cohort Study. Transplant Direct. 2020 Oct; 6(10):e610.  View on PubMed
  12. Yamanaga S, Freise CE, Stock PG, Rosario A, Fernandez D, Kobayashi T, Tavakol M, Kang SM. Inferior Long-Term Graft Survival of Suboptimal Kidneys After Living Donor Kidney Transplantation. Transplant Proc. 2020 Jul - Aug; 52(6):1734-1740.  View on PubMed
  13. Thiessen C, Wisel SA, Yamaguchi S, Dietch ZC, Feng S, Freise CE. Rapid Modification of Workflows and Fellow Staffing at a Single Transplant Center to Address the COVID-19 Crisis. Transplant Proc. 2020 Nov; 52(9):2596-2600.  View on PubMed
  14. Braun HJ, Dodge JL, Grab JD, Syed SM, Roll GR, Freise CE, Roberts JP, Ascher NL. Living Donor Liver Transplant for Alcoholic Liver Disease: Data from the Adult-to-adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Study. Transplantation. 2020 02; 104(2):285-292.  View on PubMed
  15. Torres AM, Wong F, Pearson S, Weinberg S, Roberts JP, Ascher NL, Freise CE, Lee BK. Bi-organ paired exchange-Sentinel case of a liver-kidney swap. Am J Transplant. 2019 09; 19(9):2646-2649.  View on PubMed
  16. Butt Z, DiMartini AF, Liu Q, Simpson MA, Smith AR, Zee J, Gillespie BW, Holtzman S, Ladner D, Olthoff K, Fisher RA, Hafliger S, Freise CE, Mandell MS, Sherker AH, Dew MA. Fatigue, Pain, and Other Physical Symptoms of Living Liver Donors in the Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Cohort Study. Liver Transpl. 2018 09; 24(9):1221-1232.  View on PubMed
  17. Harbell JW, Morgan T, Feldstein VA, Roll GR, Posselt A, Kang SM, Feng S, Hirose R, Freise CE, Stock P. Splenic Vein Thrombosis Following Pancreas Transplantation: Identification of Factors That Support Conservative Management. Am J Transplant. 2017 Nov; 17(11):2955-2962.  View on PubMed
  18. Freise C, Bobb V, Querfeld U. Collagen XIV and a related recombinant fragment protect human vascular smooth muscle cells from calcium-/phosphate-induced osteochondrocytic transdifferentiation. Exp Cell Res. 2017 09 15; 358(2):242-252.  View on PubMed
  19. Wisel SA, Gardner JM, Roll GR, Harbell J, Freise CE, Feng S, Kang SM, Hirose R, Kaufman DB, Posselt AM, Stock PG. Pancreas-After-Islet Transplantation in Nonuremic Type 1 Diabetes: A Strategy for Restoring Durable Insulin Independence. Am J Transplant. 2017 Sep; 17(9):2444-2450.  View on PubMed
  20. Freise CE. Vascular complication rates in living donor liver transplantation: How low can we go? Liver Transpl. 2017 04; 23(4):423-424.  View on PubMed

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