John Roberts, MD
Professor
Surgery
School of Medicine

Roberts is one of the few surgeons in the U.S. who has extensive experience in performing the Rex shunt – a procedure that restores normal blood flow to the liver – in children and adults. He also has spearheaded an effort to expand the use of living donors for liver transplantation, one of his many projects to make more organs available.

Roberts earned his medical degree at the University of California, San Diego and completed a surgical residency at the University of Washington. He also served as a postdoctoral fellow in transplantation in the Department of Surgery at the University of Minnesota Medical School.

Roberts joined UCSF Medical Center in 1988. In addition to his leadership of the transplant service, he teaches medical students and supervises the training of surgical residents.

Roberts has won numerous awards and has received grants from the National Institutes of Health for his research. He has produced nearly 170 papers on topics that include organ transplant rejection, immunogenicity (ability of a substance to provoke an immune response) and immunosuppression (intentionally subduing immune response to lower the chance of organ rejection).

Roberts speaks nationally on transplant issues. He is a fellow of the American Surgical Association and a member of many professional organizations.

• Pretransplantation coronavirus disease 2019 vaccination requirements: A matched case-control study of factors associated with waitlist inactivation.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2023 Edwards AL, Tavakol MM, Mello A, Kerney J, Roberts JP
• Characterizing the risk of human leukocyte antigen-incompatible living donor kidney transplantation in older recipients.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2023 Long JJ, Motter JD, Jackson KR, Chen J, Orandi BJ, Montgomery RA, Stegall MD, Jordan SC, Benedetti E, Dunn TB, Ratner LE, Kapur S, Pelletier RP, Roberts JP, Melcher ML, Singh P, Sudan DL, Posner MP, …
• DCD liver transplant in patients with a MELD over 35.
  Frontiers in immunology 2023 Meier RPH, Nunez M, Syed SM, Feng S, Tavakol M, Freise CE, Roberts JP, Ascher NL, Hirose R, Roll GR
• Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Within and Outside Traditional Selection Criteria: A Multicentric North American Experience.
  Annals of surgery 2023 Ivanics T, Claasen MPAW, Samstein B, Emond JC, Fox AN, Pomfret E, Pomposelli J, Tabrizian P, Florman SS, Mehta N, Roberts JP, Emamaullee JA, Genyk Y, Hernandez-Alejandro R, Tomiyama K, Sasaki K, …
• Real-world implementation of normothermic machine perfusion: A detailed analysis of intraoperative and early postoperative impact.
  Clinical transplantation 2023 Dixon W, Sheetz K, Adelmann D, Bokoch M, Reddy M, Kothari R, Roberts JP, Syed S, Feng S, Roll G
• Comments on Experience With Establishing a Robotic Donor Hepatectomy Program for Pediatric Liver Transplantation.
  Transplantation 2023 Ascher NL, Roberts JP
• Steroid Avoidance After Adult Living Donor Liver Transplant: A Cohort Analysis.
  Transplantation direct 2023 Nunez M, Praglin CR, Torres AM, Agudelo EZ, Braun HJ, Huang CY, Syed S, Roberts JP, Roll GR
• Corrigendum to 'Assessment of long-term outcomes post living liver donation highlights the importance of scientific integrity when presenting transplant registry data' [American Journal of Transplantation. Volume 22, Issue 6, March 2023, Pages 1519-1522].
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2023 Emamaullee J, Heimbach JK, Olthoff KM, Pomfret EA, Roberts JP, Selzner N, NALLDIG Consortium
• Living donor liver transplant candidate and donor selection and engagement: Meeting report from the living donor liver transplant consensus conference.
  Clinical transplantation 2023 Jesse MT, Jackson WE, Liapakis A, Ganesh S, Humar A, Goldaracena N, Levitsky J, Mulligan D, Pomfret EA, Ladner DP, Roberts JP, Mavis A, Thiessen C, Trotter J, Winder GS, Griesemer AD, Pillai A, Kumar …
• Influence of surgical technique in donor hepatectomy on immediate and short-term living donor outcomes - A systematic review of the literature, meta-analysis, and expert panel recommendations.
  Clinical transplantation 2022 Cheah YL, Heimbach J, Kwon CHD, Pomposelli J, Rudow DL, Broering D, Spiro M, Raptis DA, Roberts JP, ERAS4OLT.org Working Group
• Editorial: Optimizing Outcomes for Children Requires Ensuring Access to Living: Donor and Split Liver Transplants.
  Transplantation 2022 Perito ER, Roberts JP
• Projecting the Economic Impact of Compensating Living Kidney Donors in the United States: Cost-Benefit Analysis Demonstrates Substantial Patient and Societal Gains.
  Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research 2022 McCormick F, Held PJ, Chertow GM, Peters TG, Roberts JP
• Nodular Regenerative Hyperplasia After Liver Transplant; It's All in the Presentation.
  Frontiers in surgery 2022 Chen AK, Lunow-Luke T, Yamaguchi S, Praglin C, Agudelo E, Mehta N, Dirks R, Braun HJ, Gardner JM, Roberts JP, Syed SM, Roll GR
• Prefusion F Protein-Based Respiratory Syncytial Virus Immunization in Pregnancy.
  The New England journal of medicine 2022 Simões EAF, Center KJ, Tita ATN, Swanson KA, Radley D, Houghton J, McGrory SB, Gomme E, Anderson M, Roberts JP, Scott DA, Jansen KU, Gruber WC, Dormitzer PR, Gurtman AC
• Assessment of long-term outcomes post living liver donation highlights the importance of scientific integrity when presenting transplant registry data.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2022 Emamaullee J, Heimbach JK, Olthoff KM, Pomfret EA, Roberts JP, Selzner N, NALLDIG Consortium*
• Consent to organ offers from public health service "Increased Risk" donors decreases time to transplant and waitlist mortality.
  BMC medical ethics 2022 Kelly YM, Zarinsefat A, Tavakol M, Shui AM, Huang CY, Roberts JP
• Trends in Cost Attributable to Kidney Transplantation Evaluation and Waiting List Management in the United States, 2012-2017.
  JAMA network open 2022 Cheng XS, Han J, Braggs-Gresham JL, Held PJ, Busque S, Roberts JP, Tan JC, Scandling JD, Chertow GM, Dor A
• The use of nondirected donor organs in living donor liver transplantation: Perspectives and guidance.
  Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2022 Fox AN, Liapakis A, Batra R, Bittermann T, Emamaullee J, Emre S, Genyk Y, Han H, Jackson W, Pomfret E, Raza M, Rodriguez-Davalos M, Rubman Gold S, Samstein B, Shenoy A, Taner T, Roberts JP, North …
• Advantages and Limitations of Clinical Scores for Donation After Circulatory Death Liver Transplantation.
  Frontiers in surgery 2022 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…
• Cost Structures of US Organ Procurement Organizations.
  Transplantation 2021 Held PJ, Bragg-Gresham JL, Peters TG, McCormick F, Chertow G, Vaughan WP, Roberts JP
• Liver transplant in children and adults with cystic fibrosis: Impact of growth failure and nutritional status.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2021 Cheng K, Rosenthal P, Roberts JP, Perito ER
• With the Proven Tenacity of Waitlist Mortality, Shouldn't We Resist the Urge to Make Mountains Out of Survival Statistic Molehills?
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2021 Roll GR, Roberts JP
• Retransplantation After Living Donor Liver Transplantation: Data from the Adult to Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Study.
  Transplantation 2021 Braun HJ, Grab JD, Dodge JL, Syed SM, Roll GR, Schwab MP, Liu IH, Glencer AC, Freise CE, Roberts JP, Ascher NL
• Estimated impact of novel coronavirus-19 and transplant center inactivity on end-stage renal disease-related patient mortality in the United States.
  Clinical transplantation 2021 Peters TG, Bragg-Gresham JL, Klopstock AC, Roberts JP, Chertow G, McCormick F, Held PJ
• The organ procurement costs of expanding deceased donor organ acceptance criteria: Evidence from a cost function model.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2021 Cheng XS, Held PJ, Dor A, Bragg-Gresham JL, Tan JC, Scandling JD, Chertow GM, Roberts JP
• Non-operative management of biliary complications after Liver Transplantation in pediatric patients: A 30-year experience.
  Pediatric transplantation 2021 Lee AY, Lehrman ED, Perito ER, Kerlan RK, Kohi MP, Kolli KP, Taylor AG, Ostroff JW, Kang SM, Roberts JP, Rhee S, Rosenthal P, Fidelman N
• Current status of left lobe adult to adult living donor liver transplantation.
  Current opinion in organ transplantation 2021 Braun HJ, Roberts JP
• Live Donor Liver Transplantation in the United States: Impact of Share 35 on Live Donor Utilization.
  Transplantation 2021 Braun HJ, Dodge JL, Grab JD, Schwab ME, Liu IH, Glencer AC, Stock PG, Hirose R, Roberts JP, Ascher NL
• Emergency general surgery utilization and disparities during COVID-19: an interrupted time-series analysis.
  Trauma surgery & acute care open 2021 Greenberg AL, Schwartz H, Collins CR, Kelly YM, Mackersie R, Mourad M, Roberts JP, Bongiovanni T
• Delayed graft function and acute rejection following HLA-incompatible living donor kidney transplantation.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2021 Motter JD, Jackson KR, Long JJ, Waldram MM, Orandi BJ, Montgomery RA, Stegall MD, Jordan SC, Benedetti E, Dunn TB, Ratner LE, Kapur S, Pelletier RP, Roberts JP, Melcher ML, Singh P, Sudan DL, Posner …
• A world-wide survey on kidney transplantation practices in breast cancer survivors: The need for new management guidelines.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2021 Hansen KS, Ghersin H, Piper M, Tavakol M, Lee B, Esserman LJ, Roberts JP, Freise C, Ascher NL, Mukhtar RA
• Center-level Variation in HLA-incompatible Living Donor Kidney Transplantation Outcomes.
  Transplantation 2021 Jackson KR, Long J, Motter J, Bowring MG, Chen J, Waldram MM, Orandi BJ, Montgomery RA, Stegall MD, Jordan SC, Benedetti E, Dunn TB, Ratner LE, Kapur S, Pelletier RP, Roberts JP, Melcher ML, Singh P, …
• Setting rules for the sandbox: A response to "Successfully sharing the sandbox: A perspective on combined DCD liver and heart donor procurement".
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2020 Wisel SA, Thiessen C, Day R, Belin LJ, Syed SM, Hirose R, Ascher N, Roberts JP, Freise CE
• Expanding living donor liver transplantation: Report of first US living donor liver transplant chain.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2020 Braun HJ, Torres AM, Louie F, Weinberg SD, Kang SM, Ascher NL, Roberts JP
• Reducing the Shortage of Transplant Kidneys: A Lost Opportunity for the US Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2020 McCormick F, Held PJ, Chertow GM, Peters TG, Roberts JP
• Opioid use prior to liver transplant is associated with increased risk of death after transplant.
  American journal of surgery 2020 Braun HJ, Schwab MP, Jin C, Amara D, Mehta NJ, Grace TR, Croci R, Freise CE, Roberts JP, Hirose R, Ascher NL
• A novel waitlist dropout score for hepatocellular carcinoma - identifying a threshold that predicts worse post-transplant survival.
  Journal of hepatology 2020 Mehta N, Dodge JL, Roberts JP, Yao FY
• Contemporary Management of Hepatic Cyst Disease: Techniques and Outcomes at a Tertiary Hepatobiliary Center.
  Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract 2020 Gomez A, Wisneski AD, Luu HY, Hirose K, Roberts JP, Hirose R, Freise CE, Nakakura EK, Corvera CU
• Consensus-based perioperative protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Journal of neurosurgery. Spine 2020 Mummaneni PV, Burke JF, Chan AK, Sosa JA, Lobo EP, Mummaneni VP, Antrum S, Berven SH, Conte MS, Doernberg SB, Goldberg AN, Hess CP, Hetts SW, Josephson SA, Kohi MP, Ma CB, Mahadevan VS, Molinaro AM, …
• Post-operative assessment in patients after liver transplantation: imaging parameters associated with 1-year graft failure.
  European radiology 2020 Chang WC, M Yeh B, Chu L, Kim SY, Wen KW, Chiu SH, Ding CC, Wu EH, Roberts JP, Huang GS, Hsu HH
• A Virtual Crossmatch-based Strategy Facilitates Sharing of Deceased Donor Kidneys for Highly Sensitized Recipients.
  Transplantation 2020 Roll GR, Webber AB, Gae DH, Laszik Z, Tavakol M, Mayen L, Cunniffe K, Syed S, Hirose R, Freise C, Feng S, Roberts JP, Ascher NL, Stock PG, Rajalingam R
• Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Working Group Report from the ILTS Transplant Oncology Consensus Conference.
  Transplantation 2020 Mehta N, Bhangui P, Yao FY, Mazzaferro V, Toso C, Akamatsu N, Durand F, Ijzermans J, Polak W, Zheng S, Roberts JP, Sapisochin G, Hibi T, Kwan NM, Ghobrial M, Soin A
• Living Donor Liver Transplant for Alcoholic Liver Disease: Data from the Adult-to-adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Study.
  Transplantation 2020 Braun HJ, Dodge JL, Grab JD, Syed SM, Roll GR, Freise CE, Roberts JP, Ascher NL
• Overdilation of a 6-mm Self-Expanding Stent with a 10-mm Balloon-Expandable Stent Graft Preserves Failing Meso-Rex Bypass.
  Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR 2020 Koethe Y, Lokken RP, Lehrman ED, Kerlan RK, Roberts JP, Rhee SJ, Kohi MP, Kolli KP
• The Authors' Reply: Biliary Bicarbonate, pH, and Glucose Are Suitable Biomarkers of Biliary Viability During Ex Situ Normothermic Machine Perfusion of Human Donor Livers.
  Transplantation 2020 Meier RPH, Syed S, Roberts JP
• Split liver transplantation is utilized infrequently and concentrated at few transplant centers in the United States.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2019 Ge J, Perito ER, Bucuvalas J, Gilroy R, Hsu EK, Roberts JP, Lai JC
• The cost of procuring deceased donor kidneys: Evidence from OPO cost reports 2013-2017.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2019 Held PJ, Bragg-Gresham JL, Peters T, Chertow GM, McCormick F, Roberts JP
• Impact of the Pediatric End-Stage Liver Disease (PELD) growth failure thresholds on mortality among pediatric liver transplant candidates.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2019 Swenson SM, Roberts JP, Rhee S, Perito ER
• Removing Disincentives to Kidney Donation: A Quantitative Analysis.
  Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2019 McCormick F, Held PJ, Chertow GM, Peters TG, Roberts JP
• Prospective Phase II trial of drug-eluting bead chemoembolization for liver transplant candidates with hepatocellular carcinoma and marginal hepatic reserve.
  Journal of hepatocellular carcinoma 2019 Fidelman N, Johanson C, Kohi MP, Kolli KP, Kohlbrenner RM, Lehrman ED, Taylor AG, Kelley RK, Yao FY, Roberts JP, Kerlan RK
• Noninvasive estimation of pulmonary vascular resistance improves portopulmonary hypertension screening in liver transplant candidates.
  Clinical transplantation 2019 DesJardin JT, Manicardi M, Svetlichnaya Y, Kolaitis NA, Papolos AI, Selby VN, Zier LS, Klein L, Aras MA, Yao FY, Roberts JP, De Marco T
• Bi-organ paired exchange-Sentinel case of a liver-kidney swap.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2019 Torres AM, Wong F, Pearson S, Weinberg S, Roberts JP, Ascher NL, Freise CE, Lee BK
• Predictors of low risk for dropout from the liver transplant waiting list for hepatocellular carcinoma in long wait time regions: Implications for organ allocation.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2019 Mehta N, Dodge JL, Hirose R, Roberts JP, Yao FY
• Split Liver Transplantation and Pediatric Waitlist Mortality in the United States: Potential for Improvement.
  Transplantation 2019 Perito ER, Roll G, Dodge JL, Rhee S, Roberts JP
• Alpha-Fetoprotein Decrease from > 1,000 to < 500 ng/mL in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma Leads to Improved Posttransplant Outcomes.
  Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2019 Mehta N, Dodge JL, Roberts JP, Hirose R, Yao FY
• Distinguishing Tumor From Bland Portal Vein Thrombus in Liver Transplant Candidates With Hepatocellular Carcinoma: the A-VENA Criteria.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2019 Sherman CB, Behr S, Dodge JL, Roberts JP, Yao FY, Mehta N
• Preoperative Autologous Blood Collection in Adult Living Liver Donors: Are We Wasting Donor Blood and Increasing Exposure to Risk?
  Transplantation 2019 Manuel SP, Roberts JP, Bakhtary S
• The mRECIST Classification Provides Insight into Tumor Biology for Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma Awaiting Liver Transplantation.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2019 Lee DD, Samoylova M, Mehta N, Musto KR, Roberts JP, Yao FY, Harnois DM
• Should Patients With NAFLD/NASH Be Surveyed for HCC?
  Transplantation 2019 Reig M, Gambato M, Man NK, Roberts JP, Victor D, Orci LA, Toso C
• Would government compensation of living kidney donors exploit the poor? An empirical analysis.
  PloS one 2018 Held PJ, McCormick F, Chertow GM, Peters TG, Roberts JP
• Increasing Liver Transplantation Wait-List Dropout for Hepatocellular Carcinoma With Widening Geographical Disparities: Implications for Organ Allocation.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2018 Mehta N, Dodge JL, Hirose R, Roberts JP, Yao FY
• Predictors of Ultrasound Failure to Detect Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2018 Samoylova ML, Mehta N, Roberts JP, Yao FY
• Alpha-Fetoprotein Slope >7.5 ng/mL per Month Predicts Microvascular Invasion and Tumor Recurrence After Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
  Transplantation 2018 Giard JM, Mehta N, Dodge JL, Roberts JP, Yao FY
• Reply.
  Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2018 Lai JC, Covinsky KE, Dodge JL, Boscardin WJ, Segev DL, Roberts JP, Feng S
• The Authors' Reply.
  Transplantation 2018 Massie AB, Roberts JP
• Use of a hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA-positive donor in a treated HCV RNA-negative liver transplant recipient.
  Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society 2018 Campos-Varela I, Agudelo EZ, Sarkar M, Roberts JP, Terrault NA
• A2 liver transplantation across the ABO barrier: Increasing options in the donor pool?
  Clinical liver disease 2018 Ge J, Roberts JP, Lai JC
• Validation of the prognostic power of the RETREAT score for hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence using the UNOS database.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2017 Mehta N, Dodge JL, Roberts JP, Yao FY
• Excellent Outcomes of Liver Transplantation Following Down-Staging of Hepatocellular Carcinoma to Within Milan Criteria: A Multicenter Study.
  Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association 2017 Mehta N, Guy J, Frenette CT, Dodge JL, Osorio RW, Minteer WB, Roberts JP, Yao FY
• A Formula to Calculate Standard Liver Volume Using Thoracoabdominal Circumference.
  Transplantation direct 2017 Shaw BI, Burdine LJ, Braun HJ, Ascher NL, Roberts JP
• Misdiagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients receiving no local-regional therapy prior to liver transplant: An analysis of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network explant pathology form.
  Clinical transplantation 2017 Mehta N, Dodge JL, Roberts JP, Hirose R, Yao FY
• Hospital readmissions following HLA-incompatible live donor kidney transplantation: A multi-center study.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2017 Orandi BJ, Luo X, King EA, Garonzik-Wang JM, Bae S, Montgomery RA, Stegall MD, Jordan SC, Oberholzer J, Dunn TB, Ratner LE, Kapur S, Pelletier RP, Roberts JP, Melcher ML, Singh P, Sudan DL, Posner MP,…
• Short Course of Postoperative Hepatitis B Immunoglobulin Plus Antivirals Prevents Reinfection of Liver Transplant Recipients.
  Transplantation 2017 Radhakrishnan K, Chi A, Quan DJ, Roberts JP, Terrault NA
• Wait Time of Less Than 6 and Greater Than 18 Months Predicts Hepatocellular Carcinoma Recurrence After Liver Transplantation: Proposing a Wait Time "Sweet Spot".
  Transplantation 2017 Mehta N, Heimbach J, Lee D, Dodge JL, Harnois D, Burns J, Sanchez W, Roberts JP, Yao FY
• Biases in the reporting of hepatocellular carcinoma tumor sizes on the liver transplant waiting list.
  Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2017 Samoylova ML, Nigrini MJ, Dodge JL, Roberts JP
• Development of a novel frailty index to predict mortality in patients with end-stage liver disease.
  Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2017 Lai JC, Covinsky KE, Dodge JL, Boscardin WJ, Segev DL, Roberts JP, Feng S
• Liver transplantation recipients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis have lower risk hepatocellular carcinoma.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2017 Lewin SM, Mehta N, Kelley RK, Roberts JP, Yao FY, Brandman D
• Race/ethnicity is associated with ABO-nonidentical liver transplantation in the United States.
  Clinical transplantation 2017 Ge J, Roberts JP, Lai JC
• Cost-Effectiveness of Direct-Acting Antiviral Treatment in Hepatitis C-Infected Liver Transplant Candidates With Compensated Cirrhosis and Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
  Transplantation 2017 Salazar J, Saxena V, Kahn JG, Roberts JP, Mehta N, Volk M, Lai JC
• Validation of a Risk Estimation of Tumor Recurrence After Transplant (RETREAT) Score for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Recurrence After Liver Transplant.
  JAMA oncology 2017 Mehta N, Heimbach J, Harnois DM, Sapisochin G, Dodge JL, Lee D, Burns JM, Sanchez W, Greig PD, Grant DR, Roberts JP, Yao FY
• 3D T2-weighted and Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced 3D T1-weighted MR cholangiography for evaluation of biliary anatomy in living liver donors.
  Abdominal radiology (New York) 2017 Cai L, Yeh BM, Westphalen AC, Roberts J, Wang ZJ
• Disability in patients with end-stage liver disease: Results from the functional assessment in liver transplantation study.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2017 Samoylova ML, Covinsky KE, Haftek M, Kuo S, Roberts JP, Lai JC
• Donor Liver Small Droplet Macrovesicular Steatosis Is Associated With Increased Risk for Recipient Allograft Rejection.
  The American journal of surgical pathology 2017 Choi WT, Jen KY, Wang D, Tavakol M, Roberts JP, Gill RM
• Predicting Outcomes on the Liver Transplant Waiting List in the United States: Accounting for Large Regional Variation in Organ Availability and Priority Allocation Points.
  Transplantation 2016 Hart A, Schladt DP, Zeglin J, Pyke J, Kim WR, Lake JR, Roberts JP, Hirose R, Mulligan DC, Kasiske BL, Snyder JJ, Israni AK
• We Need to Take the Next Step.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2016 Melcher ML, Roberts JP, Leichtman AB, Roth AE, Rees MA
• Biliary complications following living donor hepatectomy.
  Transplantation reviews (Orlando, Fla.) 2016 Braun HJ, Ascher NL, Roll GR, Roberts JP
• Patterns of Early Allograft Dysfunction in Adult Live Donor Liver Transplantation: The A2ALL Experience.
  Transplantation 2016 Pomposelli JJ, Goodrich NP, Emond JC, Humar A, Baker TB, Grant DR, Fisher RA, Roberts JP, Olthoff KM, Gillespie BW, Merion RM
• Increased hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence in women compared to men with high alpha fetoprotein at liver transplant.
  Annals of hepatology 2016 Sarkar M, Dodge JL, Roberts JP, Terrault N, Yao F, Mehta N
• Nonstandard Exception Requests Impact Outcomes for Pediatric Liver Transplant Candidates.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2016 Braun HJ, Perito ER, Dodge JL, Rhee S, Roberts JP
• Impact of Graft Selection on Donor and Recipient Outcomes After Living Donor Liver Transplantation.
  Transplantation 2016 Braun HJ, Dodge JL, Roll GR, Freise CE, Ascher NL, Roberts JP
• Adult living donor liver imaging.
  Diagnostic and interventional radiology (Ankara, Turkey) 2016 Cai L, Yeh BM, Westphalen AC, Roberts JP, Wang ZJ
• Lack of benefits of mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitor in patients transplanted for hepatocellular carcinoma: Is this the end of the story?
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2016 Mehta N, Roberts JP, Yao FY
• ABO-Nonidentical Liver Transplantation in the United States.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2016 Lai JC, Roberts JP
• Response to clinical assessments of health status as a potential marker to identify patients who are too sick to undergo transplantation.
  Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver 2016 Lai JC, Covinsky KE, Hayssen H, Lizaola B, Dodge J, Roberts JP, Terrault NA, Feng S
• Survival Benefit with Kidney Transplants from HLA-Incompatible Live Donors.
  The New England journal of medicine 2016 Orandi BJ, Luo X, Massie AB, Garonzik-Wang JM, Lonze BE, Ahmed R, Van Arendonk KJ, Stegall MD, Jordan SC, Oberholzer J, Dunn TB, Ratner LE, Kapur S, Pelletier RP, Roberts JP, Melcher ML, Singh P, …
• Utilization of Deceased Donor Kidneys to Initiate Living Donor Chains.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2016 Melcher ML, Roberts JP, Leichtman AB, Roth AE, Rees MA
• The Cost of Fairness.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2016 Roberts JP
• Intention to treat outcome of T1 hepatocellular carcinoma with the "wait and not ablate" approach until meeting T2 criteria for liver transplant listing.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2016 Mehta N, Sarkar M, Dodge JL, Fidelman N, Roberts JP, Yao FY
• Minimal Transplant Survival Benefit for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Is it Real or an Overestimation of Waitlist Life Expectancy?
  Gastroenterology 2015 Mehta N, Heimbach J, Hirose R, Roberts JP, Yao FY
• Impact of a quality improvement project on deceased organ donor management.
  Progress in transplantation (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) 2015 Olmos A, Feiner J, Hirose R, Swain S, Blasi A, Roberts JP, Niemann CU
• Outcomes for liver transplant candidates listed with low model for end-stage liver disease score.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2015 Kwong AJ, Lai JC, Dodge JL, Roberts JP
• Transplantation: Allocation of liver transplants-a road to consensus.
  Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology 2015 Roberts JP
• A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Government Compensation of Kidney Donors.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2015 Held PJ, McCormick F, Ojo A, Roberts JP
• The Evolution of Organ Allocation for Liver Transplantation: Tackling Geographic Disparity Through Broader Sharing.
  Annals of surgery 2015 Axelrod DA, Vagefi PA, Roberts JP
• Therapeutic Hypothermia in Deceased Organ Donors and Kidney-Graft Function.
  The New England journal of medicine 2015 Niemann CU, Feiner J, Swain S, Bunting S, Friedman M, Crutchfield M, Broglio K, Hirose R, Roberts JP, Malinoski D
• Liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma: analysis of factors predicting outcome in 1074 patients in OPTN Region 5.
  Clinical transplantation 2015 Macdonald B, Sewell JL, Harper AM, Roberts JP, Yao FY
• Downstaging of hepatocellular cancer before liver transplant: long-term outcome compared to tumors within Milan criteria.
  Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2015 Yao FY, Mehta N, Flemming J, Dodge J, Hameed B, Fix O, Hirose R, Fidelman N, Kerlan RK, Roberts JP
• Clinician assessments of health status predict mortality in patients with end-stage liver disease awaiting liver transplantation.
  Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver 2015 Lai JC, Covinsky KE, Hayssen H, Lizaola B, Dodge JL, Roberts JP, Terrault NA, Feng S
• Potential role of the donor in hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence after liver transplantation.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2015 Vagefi PA, Dodge JL, Yao FY, Roberts JP
• Evaluating the validity of model for end-stage liver disease exception points for hepatocellular carcinoma patients with multiple nodules <2 cm.
  Clinical transplantation 2014 Samoylova ML, Dodge JL, Mehta N, Yao FY, Roberts JP
• Does center-specific reporting limit innovation.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2014 Roberts JP
• Trans-radial versus trans-femoral access in patients with end-stage liver disease undergoing cardiac catheterization.
  American journal of cardiovascular disease 2014 Feng K, Gupta V, Terrazas E, Yeghiazarians Y, Ports T, Gregoratos G, Tavakol M, Roberts JP, Boyle A
• Hepatic artery and biliary complications in liver transplant recipients undergoing pretransplant transarterial chemoembolization.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2014 Goel A, Mehta N, Guy J, Fidelman N, Yao F, Roberts J, Terrault N
• Response to letter to the editors.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2014 Yao FY, Hameed B, Mehta N, Roberts JP
• Alpha-fetoprotein level > 1000 ng/mL as an exclusion criterion for liver transplantation in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma meeting the Milan criteria.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2014 Hameed B, Mehta N, Sapisochin G, Roberts JP, Yao FY
• Time to transplantation as a predictor of hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence after liver transplantation.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2014 Samoylova ML, Dodge JL, Yao FY, Roberts JP
• Quantifying the risk of incompatible kidney transplantation: a multicenter study.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2014 Orandi BJ, Garonzik-Wang JM, Massie AB, Zachary AA, Montgomery JR, Van Arendonk KJ, Stegall MD, Jordan SC, Oberholzer J, Dunn TB, Ratner LE, Kapur S, Pelletier RP, Roberts JP, Melcher ML, Singh P, …
• Multiple listings as a reflection of geographic disparity in liver transplantation.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2014 Vagefi PA, Feng S, Dodge JL, Markmann JF, Roberts JP
• Outcomes after liver transplantation for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma and a low risk of dropout from the transplant waiting list.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2014 Mehta N, Dodge JL, Roberts JP, Hirose R, Yao FY
• Author response: reducing infection transmission in solid organ transplantation through donor nucleic acid testing: a cost-effectiveness analysis.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2014 Lai JC, Kahn JG, Roberts JP
• De novo sirolimus and reduced-dose tacrolimus versus standard-dose tacrolimus after liver transplantation: the 2000-2003 phase II prospective randomized trial.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2014 Asrani SK, Wiesner RH, Trotter JF, Klintmalm G, Katz E, Maller E, Roberts J, Kneteman N, Teperman L, Fung JJ, Millis JM
• Left versus right lobe liver donation.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2013 Roll GR, Roberts JP
• Identification of liver transplant candidates with hepatocellular carcinoma and a very low dropout risk: implications for the current organ allocation policy.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2013 Mehta N, Dodge JL, Goel A, Roberts JP, Hirose R, Yao FY
• Pediatric liver transplantation for urea cycle disorders and organic acidemias: United Network for Organ Sharing data for 2002-2012.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2013 Perito ER, Rhee S, Roberts JP, Rosenthal P
• Consumerist responses to scarcity of organs for transplant.
  The virtual mentor : VM 2013 Neidich E, Neidich AB, Axelrod DA, Roberts JP
• Validating posttransplant hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence data in the United Network for Organ Sharing database.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2013 Samoylova ML, Dodge JL, Vittinghoff E, Yao FY, Roberts JP
• Fatal transplant-associated west nile virus encephalitis and public health investigation-california, 2010.
  Transplantation 2013 Rabe IB, Schwartz BS, Farnon EC, Josephson SA, Webber AB, Roberts JP, de Mattos AM, Gallay BJ, van Slyck S, Messenger SL, Yen CJ, Bloch EM, Drew CP, Fischer M, Glaser CA, WNV Transplant Investigation …
• Decadal analysis of deceased organ donation in Spain and the United States linking an increased donation rate and the utilization of older donors.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2013 Halldorson J, Roberts JP
• Reducing infection transmission in solid organ transplantation through donor nucleic acid testing: a cost-effectiveness analysis.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2013 Lai JC, Kahn JG, Tavakol M, Peters MG, Roberts JP
• Calcineurin inhibitor-free mycophenolate mofetil/sirolimus maintenance in liver transplantation: the randomized spare-the-nephron trial.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2013 Teperman L, Moonka D, Sebastian A, Sher L, Marotta P, Marsh C, Koneru B, Goss J, Preston D, Roberts JP, Spare-the-Nephron Trial Liver Transplantation Study Group
• Determinants of second-order bile duct visualization at CT cholangiography in potential living liver donors.
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2013 Keedy AW, Breiman RS, Webb EM, Roberts JP, Coakley FV, Yeh BM
• Ex vivo split-liver transplantation: the true right/left split.
  HPB : the official journal of the International Hepato Pancreato Biliary Association 2013 Vagefi PA, Parekh J, Ascher NL, Roberts JP, Freise CE
• Left hepatectomy versus right hepatectomy for living donor liver transplantation: shifting the risk from the donor to the recipient.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2013 Roll GR, Parekh JR, Parker WF, Siegler M, Pomfret EA, Ascher NL, Roberts JP
• Use of rifabutin for the treatment of a latent tuberculosis infection in a patient after solid organ transplantation.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2013 Hickey MD, Quan DJ, Chin-Hong PV, Roberts JP
• Offer patterns of nationally placed livers by donation service area.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2013 Lai JC, Feng S, Vittinghoff E, Roberts JP
• Center competition and outcomes following liver transplantation.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2013 Halldorson JB, Paarsch HJ, Dodge JL, Segre AM, Lai J, Roberts JP
• Projected future increase in aging hepatitis C virus-infected liver transplant candidates: a potential effect of hepatocellular carcinoma.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2012 Biggins SW, Bambha KM, Terrault NA, Inadomi J, Shiboski S, Dodge JL, Gralla J, Rosen HR, Roberts JP
• Impact of outcomes monitoring on innovation and risk in liver transplantation.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2012 Roberts JP
• Posttransplant metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents after liver transplantation: a systematic review.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2012 Rothbaum Perito E, Lau A, Rhee S, Roberts JP, Rosenthal P
• Impact of the donor body mass index on the survival of pediatric liver transplant recipients and post-transplant obesity.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2012 Perito ER, Rhee S, Glidden D, Roberts JP, Rosenthal P
• An examination of liver offers to candidates on the liver transplant wait-list.
  Gastroenterology 2012 Lai JC, Feng S, Roberts JP
• Chain transplantation: initial experience of a large multicenter program.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2012 Melcher ML, Leeser DB, Gritsch HA, Milner J, Kapur S, Busque S, Roberts JP, Katznelson S, Bry W, Yang H, Lu A, Mulgaonkar S, Danovitch GM, Hil G, Veale JL
• Risk factors for liver transplant waitlist dropout in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.
  Clinical transplantation 2012 Park SJ, Freise CE, Hirose R, Kerlan RK, Yao FY, Roberts JP, Vagefi PA
• Report of a consensus conference on transplant program quality and surveillance.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2012 Kasiske BL, McBride MA, Cornell DL, Gaston RS, Henry ML, Irwin FD, Israni AK, Metzler NW, Murphy KW, Reed AI, Roberts JP, Salkowski N, Snyder JJ, Sweet SC
• Patient, center and geographic characteristics of nationally placed livers.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2012 Lai JC, Roberts JP, Vittinghoff E, Terrault NA, Feng S
• Use of living donor liver transplantation varies with the availability of deceased donor liver transplantation.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2012 Vagefi PA, Ascher NL, Freise CE, Dodge JL, Roberts JP
• Complete immunosuppression withdrawal and subsequent allograft function among pediatric recipients of parental living donor liver transplants.
  JAMA 2012 Feng S, Ekong UD, Lobritto SJ, Demetris AJ, Roberts JP, Rosenthal P, Alonso EM, Philogene MC, Ikle D, Poole KM, Bridges ND, Turka LA, Tchao NK
• A randomized, multicenter study comparing steroid-free immunosuppression and standard immunosuppression for liver transplant recipients with chronic hepatitis C.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2011 Klintmalm GB, Davis GL, Teperman L, Netto GJ, Washburn K, Rudich SM, Pomfret EA, Vargas HE, Brown R, Eckhoff D, Pruett TL, Roberts J, Mulligan DC, Charlton MR, Heffron TG, Ham JM, Douglas DD, Sher L, …
• Hepatic steatosis at 1 year is an additional predictor of subsequent fibrosis severity in liver transplant recipients with recurrent hepatitis C virus.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2011 Brandman D, Pingitore A, Lai JC, Roberts JP, Ferrell L, Bass NM, Terrault NA
• Elderly recipients of hepatitis C positive renal allografts can quickly develop liver disease.
  The Journal of surgical research 2011 Flohr TR, Bonatti H, Hranjec T, Keith DS, Lobo PI, Kumer SC, Schmitt TM, Sawyer RG, Pruett TL, Roberts JP, Brayman KL
• Overweight and obesity in pediatric liver transplant recipients: prevalence and predictors before and after transplant, United Network for Organ Sharing Data, 1987-2010.
  Pediatric transplantation 2011 Perito ER, Glidden D, Roberts JP, Rosenthal P
• Multidisciplinary management of hepatocellular carcinoma.
  Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association 2011 Guy J, Kelley RK, Roberts J, Kerlan R, Yao F, Terrault N
• Living kidney donor follow-up: state-of-the-art and future directions, conference summary and recommendations.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2011 Living Kidney Donor Follow-Up Conference Writing Group, Leichtman A, Abecassis M, Barr M, Charlton M, Cohen D, Confer D, Cooper M, Danovitch G, Davis C, Delmonico F, Dew MA, Garvey C, Gaston R, Gill J…
• Pretransplant severe hepatic encephalopathy, peritransplant sodium and post-liver transplantation morbidity and mortality.
  Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver 2011 Brandman D, Biggins SW, Hameed B, Roberts JP, Terrault NA
• Liver allocation and distribution: possible next steps.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2011 Washburn K, Pomfret E, Roberts J
• Outcomes with split liver transplantation in 106 recipients: the University of California, San Francisco, experience from 1993 to 2010.
  Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) 2011 Vagefi PA, Parekh J, Ascher NL, Roberts JP, Freise CE
• Managing finances of shipping living donor kidneys for donor exchanges.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2011 Mast DA, Vaughan W, Busque S, Veale JL, Roberts JP, Straube BM, Flores N, Canari C, Levy E, Tietjen A, Hil G, Melcher ML
• Do preoperative inflammatory markers impact on outcome after liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma?
  Annals of surgery 2011 Sapisochin G, Yao FY, Roberts JP
• Hepatitis B virus quasispecies in hepatic and extrahepatic viral reservoirs in liver transplant recipients on prophylactic therapy.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2011 Coffin CS, Mulrooney-Cousins PM, van Marle G, Roberts JP, Michalak TI, Terrault NA
• Mixed hepatocellular cholangiocarcinoma and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma in patients undergoing transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2011 Sapisochin G, Fidelman N, Roberts JP, Yao FY
• Rex shunt preoperative imaging: diagnostic capability of imaging modalities.
  PloS one 2011 Kwan SW, Fidelman N, Durack JC, Roberts JP, Kerlan RK
• Experience with laparoscopic donor nephrectomy among more than 1000 cases: low complication rates, despite more challenging cases.
  Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) 2011 Ahearn AJ, Posselt AM, Kang SM, Roberts JP, Freise CE
• Transplanting kidneys without points for HLA-B matching: consequences of the policy change.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2011 Ashby VB, Port FK, Wolfe RA, Wynn JJ, Williams WW, Roberts JP, Leichtman AB
• Molecular characterization of intrahepatic and extrahepatic hepatitis B virus (HBV) reservoirs in patients on suppressive antiviral therapy.
  Journal of viral hepatitis 2011 Coffin CS, Mulrooney-Cousins PM, Peters MG, van Marle G, Roberts JP, Michalak TI, Terrault NA
• Image of the month. Portal hypertensive biliopathy.
  Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) 2011 Martinez AF, Bonacini M, Roberts JP
• Cost-effectiveness of screening for recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma after liver transplantation.
  Clinical transplantation 2011 Ladabaum U, Cheng SL, Yao FY, Roberts JP
• Endovascular closure of a portocaval shunt after left lobe liver transplantation using an Amplatzer muscular ventricular septal occluder device.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2011 Durack J, Bass N, Teitel D, Kerlan R, Roberts J
• Transplant surgery fellow perceptions about training and the ensuing job market-are the right number of surgeons being trained?
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2011 Reich DJ, Magee JC, Gifford K, Merion RM, Roberts JP, Klintmalm GB, Stock PG, ASTS Fellowship Training Committee
• Gender differences in liver donor quality are predictive of graft loss.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2011 Lai JC, Feng S, Roberts JP, Terrault NA
• Transporting live donor kidneys for kidney paired donation: initial national results.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2011 Segev DL, Veale JL, Berger JC, Hiller JM, Hanto RL, Leeser DB, Geffner SR, Shenoy S, Bry WI, Katznelson S, Melcher ML, Rees MA, Samara EN, Israni AK, Cooper M, Montgomery RJ, Malinzak L, Whiting J, …
• Implementation of vascularized composite allografts in the United States: recommendations from the ASTS VCA Ad Hoc Committee and the Executive Committee.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2011 Cendales L, Granger D, Henry M, Jones J, Langnas A, Levi D, Magee J, Merion R, Olthoff K, Pruett T, Roberts J, Abecassis M, ASTS VCA Ad Hoc Committee and Executive Committee
• Multivessel coronary artery disease predicts mortality, length of stay, and pressor requirements after liver transplantation.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2010 Yong CM, Sharma M, Ochoa V, Abnousi F, Roberts J, Bass NM, Niemann CU, Shiboski S, Prasad M, Tavakol M, Ports TA, Gregoratos G, Yeghiazarians Y, Boyle AJ
• Outcomes of surgical repair of bile leaks and strictures after adult-to-adult living donor liver transplant.
  Clinical transplantation 2010 Melcher ML, Freise CE, Ascher NL, Roberts JP
• Comparison of biliary complications in adult living-donor liver transplants performed at two busy transplant centers.
  Clinical transplantation 2010 Melcher ML, Pomposelli JJ, Verbesey JE, McTaggart RA, Freise CE, Ascher NL, Roberts JP, Pomfret EA
• Presentation of reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome in patients on calcineurin inhibitors.
  Clinical neurology and neurosurgery 2010 Burnett MM, Hess CP, Roberts JP, Bass NM, Douglas VC, Josephson SA
• Hepatocellular carcinoma: Ablate and wait versus rapid transplantation.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2010 Roberts JP, Venook A, Kerlan R, Yao F
• Left lobe adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation: small grafts and hemiportocaval shunts in the prevention of small-for-size syndrome.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2010 Botha JF, Langnas AN, Campos BD, Grant WJ, Freise CE, Ascher NL, Mercer DF, Roberts JP
• Acute kidney injury during liver transplantation as determined by neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2009 Niemann CU, Walia A, Waldman J, Davio M, Roberts JP, Hirose R, Feiner J
• Factors influencing liver transplant length of stay at two large-volume transplant centers.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2009 Washburn WK, Meo NA, Halff GA, Roberts JP, Feng S
• The Declaration of Istanbul: review and commentary by the American Society of Transplant Surgeons Ethics Committee and Executive Committee.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2009 Reed AI, Merion RM, Roberts JP, Klintmalm GB, Abecassis MM, Olthoff KM, Langnas AN
• Long-term renal function and cardiovascular disease risk in obese kidney donors.
  Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2009 Tavakol MM, Vincenti FG, Assadi H, Frederick MJ, Tomlanovich SJ, Roberts JP, Posselt AM
• Predictors associated with terminal renal function in deceased organ donors in the intensive care unit.
  Anesthesiology 2009 Blasi-Ibanez A, Hirose R, Feiner J, Freise C, Stock PG, Roberts JP, Niemann CU
• Safety of cardiac catheterization in patients with end-stage liver disease awaiting liver transplantation.
  The American journal of cardiology 2009 Sharma M, Yong C, Majure D, Zellner C, Roberts JP, Bass NM, Ports TA, Yeghiazarians Y, Gregoratos G, Boyle AJ
• Transplant tourism to China: the impact on domestic patient-care decisions.
  Clinical transplantation 2009 Biggins SW, Bambha K, Terrault N, Inadomi J, Roberts JP, Bass N
• Long-term histological effects of preemptive antiviral therapy in liver transplant recipients with hepatitis C virus infection.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2008 Kuo A, Tan V, Lan B, Khalili M, Feng S, Roberts JP, Terrault NA
• Excellent outcome following down-staging of hepatocellular carcinoma prior to liver transplantation: an intention-to-treat analysis.
  Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2008 Yao FY, Kerlan RK, Hirose R, Davern TJ, Bass NM, Feng S, Peters M, Terrault N, Freise CE, Ascher NL, Roberts JP
• Long-term outcome of human leukocyte antigen mismatching in liver transplantation: results of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Liver Transplantation Database.
  Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2008 Balan V, Ruppert K, Demetris AJ, Ledneva T, Duquesnoy RJ, Detre KM, Wei YL, Rakela J, Schafer DF, Roberts JP, Everhart JE, Wiesner RH
• CT cholangiography in potential liver donors: effect of premedication with intravenous morphine on biliary caliber and visualization.
  Radiology 2008 Breiman RS, Coakley FV, Webb EM, Ellingson JJ, Roberts JP, Kohr J, Lutz J, Knoess N, Yeh BM
• Accuracy of plain abdominal radiographs in the detection of retained surgical needles in the peritoneal cavity.
  Annals of surgery 2008 Ponrartana S, Coakley FV, Yeh BM, Breiman RS, Qayyum A, Joe BN, Poder L, Lu Y, Gibbs VC, Roberts JP
• Increased severity of renal ischemia-reperfusion injury with venous clamping compared to arterial clamping in a rat model.
  Surgery 2007 Park Y, Hirose R, Dang K, Xu F, Behrends M, Tan V, Roberts JP, Niemann CU
• Central venous pressure monitoring during living right donor hepatectomy.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2007 Niemann CU, Feiner J, Behrends M, Eilers H, Ascher NL, Roberts JP
• Predicting biliary complications in right lobe liver transplant recipients according to distance between donor's bile duct and corresponding hepatic artery.
  Radiology 2007 Yeh BM, Coakley FV, Westphalen AC, Joe BN, Freise CE, Qayyum A, McTaggart RA, Roberts JP
• SIR 2006 Annual Meeting Film Panel Case: Budd-Chiari syndrome in a patient with Cogan syndrome.
  Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR 2006 O'Brien MJ, Bloom A, LaBerge JM, Roberts JP, Rosenthal P, Kerlan RK, SIR Foundation
• The use of a micro-bubble contrast agent to allow visualization of the biliary tree.
  Clinical transplantation 2006 Roberts JP, Neill A, Goldstein R
• Ischemia-reperfusion injury is more severe in older versus young rat livers.
  The Journal of surgical research 2006 Park Y, Hirose R, Coatney JL, Ferrell L, Behrends M, Roberts JP, Serkova NJ, Niemann CU
• De novo malignancies following liver transplantation: a case-control study with long-term follow-up.
  Clinical transplantation 2006 Yao FY, Gautam M, Palese C, Rebres R, Terrault N, Roberts JP, Peters MG
• Mild hypothermia protects obese rats from fulminant hepatic necrosis induced by ischemia-reperfusion.
  Surgery 2006 Niemann CU, Choi S, Behrends M, Hirose R, Noh J, Coatney JL, Roberts JP, Serkova NJ, Maher JJ
• Trends over a decade of pediatric liver transplantation in the United States.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2006 Feng S, Si M, Taranto SE, McBride MA, Mudge C, Stritzel S, Roberts JP, Rosenthal P
• Warm ischemia-induced alterations in oxidative and inflammatory proteins in hepatic Kupffer cells in rats.
  Molecular & cellular proteomics : MCP 2006 Hirsch J, Hansen KC, Choi S, Noh J, Hirose R, Roberts JP, Matthay MA, Burlingame AL, Maher JJ, Niemann CU
• Management of hepatitis C-infected liver transplant recipients at large North American centres: changes in recent years.
  Clinical transplantation 2006 Khalili M, Vardanian AJ, Hamerski CM, Wang R, Bacchetti P, Roberts JP, Terrault NA
• A prospective study on downstaging of hepatocellular carcinoma prior to liver transplantation.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2005 Yao FY, Hirose R, LaBerge JM, Davern TJ, Bass NM, Kerlan RK, Merriman R, Feng S, Freise CE, Ascher NL, Roberts JP
• Ischemic preconditioning improves energy state and transplantation survival in obese Zucker rat livers.
  Anesthesia and analgesia 2005 Niemann CU, Hirose R, Liu T, Behrends M, Brown JL, Kominsky DF, Roberts JP, Serkova N
• Expanded criteria donor kidney allocation: marked decrease in cold ischemia and delayed graft function at a single center.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2005 Carter JT, Chan S, Roberts JP, Feng S
• Tumor surveillance-what can and should be done? Screening for recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma after liver transplantation.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2005 Roberts JP
• Metabolic profiling of livers and blood from obese Zucker rats.
  Journal of hepatology 2005 Serkova NJ, Jackman M, Brown JL, Liu T, Hirose R, Roberts JP, Maher JJ, Niemann CU
• High incidence of recurrence and hematologic events following liver transplantation for Budd-Chiari syndrome.
  Clinical transplantation 2005 Cruz E, Ascher NL, Roberts JP, Bass NM, Yao FY
• Laparoscopic procurement of kidneys with multiple renal arteries is associated with increased ureteral complications in the recipient.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2005 Carter JT, Freise CE, McTaggart RA, Mahanty HD, Kang SM, Chan SH, Feng S, Roberts JP, Posselt AM
• The use of stents for duct-to-duct anastomoses of biliary reconstruction in orthotopic liver transplantation.
  Hepato-gastroenterology 2005 Kusano T, Randall HB, Roberts JP, Ascher NL
• Living donor candidates for right hepatic lobe transplantation: evaluation at CT cholangiography--initial experience.
  Radiology 2005 Wang ZJ, Yeh BM, Roberts JP, Breiman RS, Qayyum A, Coakley FV
• The impact of pre-operative loco-regional therapy on outcome after liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2005 Yao FY, Kinkhabwala M, LaBerge JM, Bass NM, Brown R, Kerlan R, Venook A, Ascher NL, Emond JC, Roberts JP
• Mild hypothermia provides significant protection against ischemia/reperfusion injury in livers of obese and lean rats.
  Annals of surgery 2005 Choi S, Noh J, Hirose R, Ferell L, Bedolli M, Roberts JP, Niemann CU
• Percutaneous salvage of a failing rex shunt.
  Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR 2005 Thornton RH, Kerlan RK, Gordon RL, Laberge JM, Wilson MW, Wolanske KA, Roberts JP
• Applicability, tolerability and efficacy of preemptive antiviral therapy in hepatitis C-infected patients undergoing liver transplantation.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2005 Shergill AK, Khalili M, Straley S, Bollinger K, Roberts JP, Ascher NA, Terrault NA
• Concordance of second-order portal venous and biliary tract anatomies on MDCT angiography and MDCT cholangiography.
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2005 Chen JS, Yeh BM, Wang ZJ, Roberts JP, Breiman RS, Qayyum A, Coakley FV
• Serum sodium predicts mortality in patients listed for liver transplantation.
  Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2005 Biggins SW, Rodriguez HJ, Bacchetti P, Bass NM, Roberts JP, Terrault NA
• Laparoscopic right donor nephrectomy: a large single-center experience.
  Transplantation 2004 Posselt AM, Mahanty H, Kang SM, Stoller ML, Meng MV, Roberts JP, Freise CE
• Ethical issues in split versus whole liver transplantation.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2004 Vulchev A, Roberts JP, Stock PG
• Summary report of a national conference: Evolving concepts in liver allocation in the MELD and PELD era. December 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2004 Olthoff KM, Brown RS, Delmonico FL, Freeman RB, McDiarmid SV, Merion RM, Millis JM, Roberts JP, Shaked A, Wiesner RH, Lucey MR
• The influence of portoenterostomy on transplantation for biliary atresia.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2004 Visser BC, Suh I, Hirose S, Rosenthal P, Lee H, Roberts JP, Hirose R
• Comparison of outcomes after delayed graft function: sirolimus-based versus other calcineurin-inhibitor sparing induction immunosuppression regimens.
  Transplantation 2004 McTaggart RA, Tomlanovich S, Bostrom A, Roberts JP, Feng S
• Use of CT cholangiography to evaluate the biliary tract after liver transplantation: initial experience.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2004 Miller GA, Yeh BM, Breiman RS, Roberts JP, Qayyum A, Coakley FV
• Applying expanded criteria to liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma: too much too soon, or is now the time?
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2004 Yao FY, Roberts JP
• Liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma: lessons from the first year under the Model of End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) organ allocation policy.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2004 Yao FY, Bass NM, Ascher NL, Roberts JP
• Biliary tract depiction in living potential liver donors: comparison of conventional MR, mangafodipir trisodium-enhanced excretory MR, and multi-detector row CT cholangiography--initial experience.
  Radiology 2004 Yeh BM, Breiman RS, Taouli B, Qayyum A, Roberts JP, Coakley FV
• Influence of graft type on outcomes after pediatric liver transplantation.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2004 Roberts JP, Hulbert-Shearon TE, Merion RM, Wolfe RA, Port FK
• New onset diabetes mellitus after liver transplantation: the critical role of hepatitis C infection.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2004 Khalili M, Lim JW, Bass N, Ascher NL, Roberts JP, Terrault NA
• Effect of changing the priority for HLA matching on the rates and outcomes of kidney transplantation in minority groups.
  The New England journal of medicine 2004 Roberts JP, Wolfe RA, Bragg-Gresham JL, Rush SH, Wynn JJ, Distant DA, Ashby VB, Held PJ, Port FK
• Improving liver allocation: MELD and PELD.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2004 Freeman RB, Wiesner RH, Roberts JP, McDiarmid S, Dykstra DM, Merion RM
• Prediction of survival after liver retransplantation for late graft failure based on preoperative prognostic scores.
  Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2004 Yao FY, Saab S, Bass NM, Hirose R, Ly D, Terrault N, Lazar AA, Bacchetti P, Ascher NL, Roberts JP
• Cost of organ procurement and transplantation network data collection for a large transplant center.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2003 Roberts JP, Nikolai B, Tomlanovich S
• Expanding the donor pool: can the Spanish model work in the United States?
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2003 Chang GJ, Mahanty HD, Ascher NL, Roberts JP
• Role of adult living liver donation in patients with hepatocellular cancer.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2003 Roberts JP
• Kidney and liver transplantation in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients: a pilot safety and efficacy study.
  Transplantation 2003 Stock PG, Roland ME, Carlson L, Freise CE, Roberts JP, Hirose R, Terrault NA, Frassetto LA, Palefsky JM, Tomlanovich SJ, Ascher NL
• CD69 expression on peripheral CD8 T cells correlates with acute rejection in renal transplant recipients.
  Transplantation 2003 Posselt AM, Vincenti F, Bedolli M, Lantz M, Roberts JP, Hirose R
• A follow-up analysis of the pattern and predictors of dropout from the waiting list for liver transplantation in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma: implications for the current organ allocation policy.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2003 Yao FY, Bass NM, Nikolai B, Merriman R, Davern TJ, Kerlan R, Ascher NL, Roberts JP
• Frequent salvage of ruptured renal allografts: a large single center experience.
  Clinical transplantation 2003 Finley DS, Roberts JP
• Sirolimus prolongs recovery from delayed graft function after cadaveric renal transplantation.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2003 McTaggart RA, Gottlieb D, Brooks J, Bacchetti P, Roberts JP, Tomlanovich S, Feng S
• Liver and intestine transplantation.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2003 Roberts JP, Brown RS, Edwards EB, Farmer DG, Freeman RB, Wiesner RH, Merion RM
• Pharmacokinetics of cyclosporine pre- and post-liver transplantation.
  Journal of clinical pharmacology 2003 Hebert MF, Wacher VJ, Roberts JP, Benet LZ
• Intraoperative hemodynamics and liver function in adult-to-adult living liver donors.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2002 Niemann CU, Roberts JP, Ascher NL, Yost CS
• Liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma: analysis of survival according to the intention-to-treat principle and dropout from the waiting list.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2002 Yao FY, Bass NM, Nikolai B, Davern TJ, Kerlan R, Wu V, Ascher NL, Roberts JP
• Liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma: comparison of the proposed UCSF criteria with the Milan criteria and the Pittsburgh modified TNM criteria.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2002 Yao FY, Ferrell L, Bass NM, Bacchetti P, Ascher NL, Roberts JP
• Report of the Crystal City meeting to maximize the use of organs recovered from the cadaver donor.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2002 Rosengard BR, Feng S, Alfrey EJ, Zaroff JG, Emond JC, Henry ML, Garrity ER, Roberts JP, Wynn JJ, Metzger RA, Freeman RB, Port FK, Merion RM, Love RB, Busuttil RW, Delmonico FL
• Allograft rejection in pediatric liver transplantation: Comparison between cadaveric and living related donors.
  Pediatric transplantation 2002 Toyoki Y, Renz JF, Mudge C, Ascher NL, Roberts JP, Rosenthal P
• Targeted gene therapy with CD40Ig to induce long-term acceptance of liver allografts.
  Surgery 2002 Chang GJ, Liu T, Feng S, Bedolli M, O'rourke RW, Schmidt G, Roberts JP, Stock PG
• Donor health assessment after living-donor liver transplantation.
  Annals of surgery 2002 Diaz GC, Renz JF, Mudge C, Roberts JP, Ascher NL, Emond JC, Rosenthal P
• Prioritization of patients with liver cancer within the MELD system.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2002 Roberts JP