Mignote Yilma, MD
Resident Physician
Surgery
School of Medicine
Mignote Yilma, MD is a general surgery resident at UCSF who is currently in her dedicated research years. She is also a National Clinician Scholars Fellow at UCSF, previously known as Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and has recently joined Health Affairs as a Health Equity Fellow. Mignote is also pursuing a Master's in Biostatistics and Epidemiology with a focus on implementation science.
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Her research interests include addressing early barriers to transplantation with a focus on using area-based neighborhood measures of socioeconomic status as well as individual measures of socioeconomic status. She is interested in pursuing a career in abdominal solid organ transplantation.
Awards
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- Emerging Liver Scholar, AASLD, 2022
- Diverse Surgeons Initiative, The Society of Black Academic Surgeons, 2022
- CTSI Spring 2022 Resident Research Funding Award, UCSF, 2022
- National Clinician Scholars Fellow, University of California, San Francisco, 2021-2023
Education & Training
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- Surgical Training University of California, San Francisco 06/2025
- MAS Master's in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Implementation and Data Science Track University of California, San Francisco 06/2023
- M.D. University of California, Los Angeles 06/2018
- B.A Human Biology Stanford University 06/2010
Interests
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- Barriers to solid organ transplantation
- Transplant Equity
- Social determinants of Health
- Healthy Equity
Publications (14)
Top publication keywords:
Carcinoma, HepatocellularTissue and Organ ProcurementLiver DiseasesInternship and ResidencyHepatitis C, ChronicEnd Stage Liver DiseaseLiver NeoplasmsFellowships and ScholarshipsOrgan TransplantationChemoembolization, TherapeuticLiver TransplantationWaiting ListsGeneral SurgeryTissue DonorsKidney Transplantation
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Examining the Influence of a General Surgery Resident's Transplant Experience on Their Pursuit of Transplant Surgery Fellowship.
Clinical transplantation 2024 Yilma M, Brown AE, Harvey J, Stahl CC, Quillin RC, Syed SM, Cortez AR, US Resident OPerative Experience (ROPE) Consortium -
Barriers to liver transplant referral in safety net settings: A national provider survey.
Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2024 Hundt M, Chen A, Donovan J, Kim N, Yilma M, Tana M, Mehta N, Zhou K -
Optimal Liver Transplantation Criteria for Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
Surgical oncology clinics of North America 2023 Yilma M, Mehta N -
A framework to improve retention of Black surgical trainees: A Society of Black Academic Surgeons white paper.
American journal of surgery 2023 Suraju MO, McElroy L, Moten A, Obeng-Gyasi S, Alimi Y, Carter D, Foretia DA, Stapleton S, Yilma M, Reid VJ, Tetteh HA, Khabele D, Rodriguez LM, Campbell A, Newman EA -
Community-level social vulnerability and individual socioeconomic status on liver transplant referral outcome.
Hepatology communications 2023 Yilma M, Cogan R, Shui AM, Neuhaus JM, Light C, Braun H, Mehta N, Hirose R
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Factors Associated With Liver Transplant Referral Among Patients With Cirrhosis at Multiple Safety-Net Hospitals.
JAMA network open 2023 Yilma M, Kim NJ, Shui AM, Tana M, Landis C, Chen A, Bangaru S, Mehta N, Zhou K -
Geographic disparities in access to liver transplantation.
Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2023 Yilma M, Dalal N, Wadhwani SI, Hirose R, Mehta N -
Hypertension Requiring Medication Use: a Silent Predictor of Poor Outcomes After Pancreaticoduodenectomy.
Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract 2023 Lin JJ, Conroy PC, Romero-Hernandez F, Yilma M, Feng J, Hirose K, Nakakura E, Maker AV, Corvera C, Kirkwood K, Alseidi A, Adam MA -
Hand-Assisted Versus Pure Minimally-Invasive Distal Pancreatectomy: Is There a Downside to Lending a Hand?
World journal of surgery 2022 Miller PN, Romero-Hernandez F, Conroy P, Calthorpe L, Yilma M, Mohamedaly S, Kelly YM, Feng J, Hirose K, Kirkwood K, Maker AV, Corvera C, Nakakura E, Alseidi A, Adam MA -
Models to Predict Development or Recurence of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) in Patients with Advanced Hepatic Fibrosis.
Current gastroenterology reports 2022 Yilma M, Saxena V, Mehta N -
Expedited evaluation for liver transplantation: A critical look at processes and outcomes.
Clinical transplantation 2021 Braun HJ, Mello A, Kothari R, Ku E, Yilma M, Tavakol M, Zhang L, Niemann CU, Ascher NL, Adelmann D -
Equity in kidney transplant allocation - North American perspective.
Current opinion in organ transplantation 2021 Yilma M, Hirose R -
Mucus plugging, air trapping, and bronchiectasis are important outcome measures in assessing progressive childhood cystic fibrosis lung disease.
Pediatric pulmonology 2020 Robinson TE, Goris ML, Moss RB, Tian L, Kan P, Yilma M, McCoy KS, Newman B, de Jong PA, Long FR, Brody AS, Behrje R, Yates DP, Cornfield DN -
Prospective Validation of Two 4D-CT-Based Scoring Systems for Prediction of Multigland Disease in Primary Hyperparathyroidism.
AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2016 Sho S, Yilma M, Yeh MW, Livhits M, Wu JX, Hoang JK, Sepahdari AR