Jessica Rubin, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

My academic mission is to improve quality of life and outcomes among patients living with liver disease. As a health services researcher, my interest lies at the intersection of pain management and hepatology. Specifically, my goal is to identify safe and effective pain control strategies that will improve outcomes and quality of life, and increase access to transplant, for liver disease patients with pain. I also studies gender disparities in patients with liver disease and undergoing liver transplant.

After earning my undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering at Yale University, I completed medical degree at Weill Cornell Medical College and a Master of Public Health from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. I completed my residency in Internal Medicine and fellowships in Gastroenterology and Transplant Hepatology at UCSF.

• Racial and Ethnic Disparities Among Patients Hospitalized for Acute Cholangitis in the United States.
  Journal of clinical gastroenterology 2023 Wang M, Wadhwani SI, Cullaro G, Lai JC, Rubin JB
• Cirrhosis Inpatients Receive More Opioids and Fewer Nonopioid Analgesics Than Patients Without Cirrhosis.
  Journal of clinical gastroenterology 2023 Rubin JB, Lai JC, Shui AM, Hohmann SF, Auerbach A
• Leveraging a New ICD-10 Diagnosis Code to Characterize Hospitalized Patients With Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis.
  Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association 2022 Wang M, Auerbach A, Oreper SM, Hohmann SF, Lai JC, Rubin JB
• Osmotic Demyelination Syndrome in Hospitalized Patients With Cirrhosis: Analysis of the National Inpatient Sample (NIS).
  Journal of clinical gastroenterology 2022 Berry K, Rubin JB, Lai JC
• Long-Term Opioid Use Among Veterans with Cirrhosis: High-Dose Prescriptions in an Exceedingly High-Risk Population.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2022 Rubin JB, Lai JC, Leonard S, Seal K, Hoggatt KJ, Keyhani S
• Sex-based Disparities in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Recurrence After Liver Transplantation.
  Transplantation 2021 Cullaro G, Rubin J, Mehta N, Yao F, Verna EC, Lai JC
• Association Between Kidney Dysfunction Types and Mortality Among Hospitalized Patients with Cirrhosis.
  Digestive diseases and sciences 2021 Cullaro G, Rubin JB, Fortune BE, Crawford CV, Verna EC, Hsu CY, Liu KD, Brown RS, Lai JC, Rosenblatt R
• Patterns of Inpatient Opioid Use and Related Adverse Events Among Patients With Cirrhosis: A Propensity-Matched Analysis.
  Hepatology communications 2021 Rubin JB, Lai JC, Shui AM, Hohmann SF, Auerbach A
• Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in pregnancy is associated with adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes.
  Journal of hepatology 2020 Sarkar M, Grab J, Dodge JL, Gunderson EP, Rubin J, Irani RA, Cedars M, Terrault N
• Women who undergo liver transplant have longer length of stay post-transplant compared with men.
  Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver 2020 Rubin JB, Cullaro G, Ge J, Lai JC
• Gender Differences Among Patients Hospitalized With Cirrhosis in the United States.
  Journal of clinical gastroenterology 2020 Rubin JB, Sundaram V, Lai JC
• Differential Impact of Age Among Liver Transplant Candidates With and Without Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2019 Cullaro G, Rubin JB, Mehta N, Lai JC
• Hospitalized Women With Cirrhosis Have More Nonhepatic Comorbidities and Associated Complications Than Men.
  Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association 2019 Rubin JB, Srisengfa YT, Albhaisi S, Acharya C, Nangia G, Shaikh T, Thacker LR, Reddy KR, Tandon P, Bajaj JS, Lai JC
• Women on the liver transplantation waitlist are at increased risk of hospitalization compared to men.
  World journal of gastroenterology 2019 Rubin JB, Sinclair M, Rahimi RS, Tapper EB, Lai JC
• Acetaminophen-induced Acute Liver Failure Is More Common and More Severe in Women.
  Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association 2017 Rubin JB, Hameed B, Gottfried M, Lee WM, Sarkar M, Acute Liver Failure Study Group
• Characteristics of paid malpractice claims settled in and out of court in the USA: a retrospective analysis.
  BMJ open 2013 Rubin JB, Bishop TF
• Coronary heart disease in young adults.
  Current atherosclerosis reports 2012 Rubin JB, Borden WB
• Are we studying what matters? Health priorities and NIH-funded biomedical engineering research.
  Annals of biomedical engineering 2010 Rubin JB, Paltiel AD, Saltzman WM
• Disruption of CXCR4 enhances osteoclastogenesis and tumor growth in bone.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2007 Hirbe AC, Rubin J, Uluçkan O, Morgan EA, Eagleton MC, Prior JL, Piwnica-Worms D, Weilbaecher KN