Elizabeth Zheng, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Elizabeth Zheng is a transplant hepatologist who cares for patients with liver diseases, including hepatitis B and liver cancer.

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Zheng's research is focused on finding ways to increase access to liver care for underserved patients and on developing strategies to increase screening for liver cancer.

Zheng earned her medical degree at New York Medical College. She completed a residency in internal medicine at Montefiore Medical Center (an affiliate of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine), a fellowship in gastroenterology at Einstein Medical Center and a fellowship in transplant hepatology at UCSF.

Education & Training

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• Transplant Hepatology Fellowship University of California, San Francisco 06/2018
• Gastroenterology Fellowship Einstein Medical Center 06/2017
• Internal Medicine Residency Montefiore Medical Center 06/2014
• MD New York Medical College 05/2011

Publications (13)

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Plant ExtractsTeaChemical and Drug Induced Liver InjuryOrgan TransplantationAlanine TransaminaseCarcinoma, HepatocellularDietary SupplementsChemoembolization, TherapeuticPancreatitisPancreatic CystBile Duct NeoplasmsTransplant RecipientsPancreasCausalityPlant Preparations

• Recall patterns and risk of primary liver cancer for subcentimeter ultrasound liver observations: a multicenter study.
  Hepatology communications 2023 Singal AG, Ghaziani TT, Mehta N, Zhou K, Grinspan LT, Benhammou JN, Moon AM, Yang JD, Salgia R, Pillai A, Zheng E, Rich NE, Gopal P, Jalal P, Verna E, Yekkaluri S, Phen S, Melendez-Torres J, …
• Paraumbilical Varix Masquerading as a Gastric Submucosal Nodule in Decompensated Liver Cirrhosis.
  ACG case reports journal 2022 Varghese T, Varghese GM, Vennikandam MM, Phipps M, Zheng E
• Tocilizumab for severe COVID-19 in solid organ transplant recipients: a matched cohort study.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2020 Pereira MR, Aversa MM, Farr MA, Miko BA, Aaron JG, Mohan S, Cohen DJ, Husain SA, Ratner LE, Arcasoy S, Uriel N, Zheng EX, Fox AN, Tsapepas DS, Emond JC, Verna EC
• Acute Liver Injury in COVID-19: Prevalence and Association with Clinical Outcomes in a Large U.S. Cohort.
  Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2020 Phipps MM, Barraza LH, LaSota ED, Sobieszczyk ME, Pereira MR, Zheng EX, Fox AN, Zucker J, Verna EC
• Drug-induced Liver Injury Secondary to Herbal and Dietary Supplements.
  Clinics in liver disease 2019 Zheng E, Sandhu N, Navarro V

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• Provider Attitudes and Practice Patterns for Direct-Acting Antiviral Therapy for Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
  Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association 2019 Rich NE, Yang JD, Perumalswami PV, Alkhouri N, Jackson W, Parikh ND, Mehta N, Salgia R, Duarte-Rojo A, Kulik L, Rakoski M, Said A, Oloruntoba O, Ioannou GN, Hoteit MA, Moon AM, Rangnekar AS, Eswaran …
• Causality assessment for liver injury attributable to dietary supplements.
  Clinical liver disease 2017 Zheng E, Navarro VJ
• Daño hepático debido al uso de suplementos nutricionales y de herbolario: revisión de componentes individuales.
  Clinical liver disease 2016 Zheng E, Navarro V
• Risk of Liver Injury Associated with Green Tea Extract in SLIMQUICK(®) Weight Loss Products: Results from the DILIN Prospective Study.
  Drug safety 2016 Zheng EX, Rossi S, Fontana RJ, Vuppalanchi R, Hoofnagle JH, Khan I, Navarro VJ
• Liver injury due to herbal and dietary supplements: A review of individual ingredients.
  Clinical liver disease 2016 Zheng E, Navarro V
• Drug-induced liver injury in the United States: A review of multi-ingredient supplements.
  Clinical liver disease 2016 Zheng E, Navarro V
• Liver Injury from Herbal, Dietary, and Weight Loss Supplements: a Review.
  Journal of clinical and translational hepatology 2015 Zheng EX, Navarro VJ
• Pancreatitis because of foregut duplication cyst of the pancreas treated by laparoscopic resection.
  Journal of pediatric surgery 2010 Zheng E, Burjonrappa S