Liver Transplant Clinic

One of the collaborations between Washington Health and UCSF Health is a Liver Transplant Clinic. On the fourth Friday of every month, UCSF holds a Liver Transplant Clinic for district patients at 1900 Mowry Ave., suite 1, in Fremont.

The UCSF Health Liver Transplant Program has performed nearly 4,000 liver transplant since its founding in 1988.

UCSF’s program, designated a center of excellence by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is known for outstanding outcomes and for helping pioneer techniques to make transplantation safer and more successful. They perform transplants using both deceased and living donors, and are able to perform complex transplants on patients with complicating health conditions, such as portal vein thrombosis. They also created new criteria for transplanting liver cancer patients, which are now used in transplant centers across the world and have allowed more patients to become eligible for transplant.

Each patient's treatment team includes surgeons, hepatologists, nurses, physician assistants, pharmacists, dietitians and social workers. Liver transplant pathologists and interventional radiologists also help accurately diagnose and manage liver disease and liver cancer progression before transplant. The dedicated transplant unit is staffed by nurses and other providers who specialize in caring for liver transplant patients.

Outcomes

UCSF Health’s adult liver transplant patients have a one-year survival rate that consistently exceeds the national average, according to the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR). In SRTR's most recent reporting period, UCSF’s liver transplant recipients had a survival rate of 93.48 percent one year after transplant, compared with a national average of 92.82 percent, and an expected survival rate – meaning the predicted survival rate based on variables indicating how sick or healthy recipients are – of 92.47 percent.

The Liver Transplant Clinic is staffed by Bilal Hameed, MD, a board-certified gastroenterologist and transplant hepatologist. Dr. Hameed is a Professor of Medicine at UCSF, the Ambulatory Chair of Hepatology at UCSF Medical Center and the Director of the Fatty Liver Clinic. He completed his residency in medicine and fellowship in gastroenterology at the University of Minnesota and his transplant hepatology fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. After completing his fellowship in 2010, he was invited to join the faculty at UCSF and has established himself as one of UCSF’s top transplant hepatologists clinically, academically and professionally. His clinical and research areas of interest include MASLD, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Dr. Hameed takes a proactive approach to exploring new treatment modalities and therapeutic interventions, including many ongoing clinical trials for steatotic (fatty) liver disease.

For questions about this program, please contact the UCSF Liver Transplant Clinic at 415.353.2318 to schedule an appointment.

Referring providers may fax referrals to 415.353.2407.