Miguel Nunez, MD
RESIDENT
Surgery
School of Medicine

Miguel Nunez is a first-year general surgery resident at UCSF. He completed his B.S. at the University of California Los Angeles where he majored in Molecullar, Cellular and Developmental Biology. He spent a year between undergraduate and medical school working on advancing oncological therapies for women with ovarian cancer.

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Miguel attended medical school at the University of California San Francisco where he graduated with an MD with distinction after completing a year of research investigating the use of long-term normothermic liver perfusion to improve organ quality. He is interested in health disparities, clinical research, and health policy and plans to pursue a career in either Abdominal Transplant or Surgical Oncology.

Awards

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• ASTS Presidential Student Mentor Research Grant, American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 2022
• NIAAA Diversity Supplement Award, National Institutes of Health, 2021-2022
• UCLA Achievement Scholarship, University of California Los Angeles, 2013-2017
• UCLA Alumni Scholarship, University of California Los Angeles, 2013-2017

Education & Training

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• MD Medicine University of California San Francisco 06/2023
• BS Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology University of California Los Angeles 06/2017

Publications (8)

Top publication keywords:
Islets of Langerhans TransplantationMesotheliomaEndometrial HyperplasiaPeritoneal NeoplasmsPancreas TransplantationProgesteroneUreteral ObstructionBody FluidsEnd Stage Liver DiseaseLaparoscopyHyperthermia, InducedDiabetes Mellitus, Type 1Stromal CellsEndometriumReceptors, Progesterone

• Diabetes Insipidus in Deceased Donors and Outcomes in Kidney Transplant Recipients.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2023 Nunez M, Gardner J, Syed S, Webber A, Shoji J, Copeland TP, McCulloch CE, Ku E, Roll GR
• 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
• ASO Visual Abstract: National Practice Patterns in Malignant Peritoneal Mesothelioma-Updates in Management and Survival.
  Annals of surgical oncology 2023 Calthorpe L, Romero-Hernandez F, Casey M, Nunez M, Conroy PC, Hirose K, Kim A, Kirkwood K, Maker AV, Corvera C, Nakakura E, Alseidi A, Adam MA
• A Multi-Modal Approach to Islet and Pancreas Transplantation With Calcineurin-Sparing Immunosuppression Maintains Long-Term Insulin Independence in Patients With Type I Diabetes.
  Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation 2023 Wisel SA, Posselt AM, Szot GL, Nunez M, Santos-Parker K, Gardner JM, Worner G, Roll GR, Syed S, Kelly Y, Ward C, Tavakol M, Johnson K, Masharani U, Stock PG
• 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
• National Practice Patterns in Malignant Peritoneal Mesothelioma: Updates in Management and Survival.
  Annals of surgical oncology 2023 Calthorpe L, Romero-Hernandez F, Casey M, Nunez M, Conroy PC, Hirose K, Kim A, Kirkwood K, Maker AV, Corvera C, Nakakura E, Alseidi A, Adam MA
• Therapeutic Living Donor Nephrectomy for Proximal Ureteral Pathology: A Longitudinal Case Series.
  Urology 2022 Freise J, Nunez M, Chi T, Stoller M, Freise C, Roll GR
• Expression of Stromal Progesterone Receptor and Differential Methylation Patterns in the Endometrium May Correlate with Response to Progesterone Therapy in Endometrial Complex Atypical Hyperplasia.
  Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) 2020 Neal AS, Nunez M, Lai T, Tosevska A, Morselli M, Amneus M, Zakhour M, Moatamed NA, Pellegrini M, Memarzadeh S