Alan Zambeli-Ljepovic, MD, MHS
Resident
Surgery
School of Medicine

Originally from Croatia, he earned a BS in biomedical engineering from Columbia University, as well as an MD and MHS (Master's of Health Sciences) from Duke University. At Columbia, he established the first biomedical engineering collaboration between Makerere (Kampala, Uganda) and Columbia Universities, resulting in a joint grant for sustainable medical device development for Ugandan hospitals.

A fellow of the National Clinician Scholars Program and the UCSF Center for Health Equity in Surgery and Anesthesia, his research focuses on generating the evidence to guide the safe and ethical expansion of kidney transplantation services in low- and middle-income countries.

Outside of the hospital, Alan is one of the founding members of the Buck Fellows Program, through which he mentors local high school students applying to college. A competitive swimmer of 15 years, he believes that physical and mental health go hand-in-hand. He speaks Serbo-Croatian and Spanish.

• Health care utilization in young adults with childhood physical disabilities: a nationally representative prospective cohort study.
  BMC pediatrics 2022 Fergus KB, Zambeli-Ljepovic A, Hampson LA, Copp HL, Nagata JM
• Severe Hypocalcemia After Thyroidectomy: An Analysis of 7366 Patients.
  Annals of surgery 2021 Kazaure HS, Zambeli-Ljepovic A, Oyekunle T, Roman SA, Sosa JA, Stang MT, Scheri RP
• Postoperative Surveillance in Older Adults With T1N0M0 Low-risk Papillary Thyroid Cancer.
  The Journal of surgical research 2021 Pradhan MC, Kazaure HS, Wang F, Zambeli-Ljepovic A, Perkins JM, Stang MT, Scheri RP
• Extent of surgery for low-risk thyroid cancer in the elderly: Equipoise in survival but not in short-term outcomes.
  Surgery 2019 Zambeli-Ljepovic A, Wang F, Dinan MA, Hyslop T, Stang MT, Roman SA, Sosa JA, Scheri RP
• Low-Risk Thyroid Cancer in Elderly: Total Thyroidectomy/RAI Predominates but Lacks Survival Advantage.
  The Journal of surgical research 2019 Zambeli-Ljepovic A, Wang F, Dinan MA, Hyslop T, Roman SA, Sosa JA, Scheri RP
• Predicting recurrence of papillary thyroid cancer using the eighth edition of the AJCC/UICC staging system.
  The British journal of surgery 2019 Chereau N, Oyekunle TO, Zambeli-Ljepovic A, Kazaure HS, Roman SA, Menegaux F, Sosa JA
• Prediction of primary breast cancer size and T-stage using micro-computed tomography in lumpectomy specimens.
  Journal of pathology informatics 2015 Sarraj WM, Tang R, Najjar AL, Griffin M, Bui AH, Zambeli-Ljepovic A, Senter-Zapata M, Lewin-Berlin M, Fernandez L, Buckley J, Ly A, Brachtel E, Aftreth O, Gilbertson J, Yagi Y, Gadd M, Hughes KS, …
• Pulmonary Microvascular Blood Flow in Mild Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Emphysema. The MESA COPD Study.
  American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2015 Hueper K, Vogel-Claussen J, Parikh MA, Austin JH, Bluemke DA, Carr J, Choi J, Goldstein TA, Gomes AS, Hoffman EA, Kawut SM, Lima J, Michos ED, Post WS, Po MJ, Prince MR, Liu K, Rabinowitz D, Skrok J, …