Shareef Syed, MD
Assistant Professor
Surgery
School of Medicine

He also serves as the division’s educational lead to general surgery residents, participates in enhancing the campus surgical education curriculum and was recently accepted in to the upcoming Teaching Scholars Program cohort. Dr. Syed was recently awarded the Faculty Teaching Award by UCSF’s PGY1 General Surgery Residents in recognition for the quality of his teaching and contributions to their education. In addition to his clinical and surgical responsibilities, his current research interests include studying renal allograft rejection, the preservation of donor livers and the intersection of global health and education vis-à-vis partnering with a Costa Rican transplant center.

He is a member of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, Royal College of Surgeons and The Transplantation Society.

• Remediation for Technical Skills.
  Remediation in Medical Education 2023 Shareef Syed, Riley Brian, Sanziana Roman
• 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
• 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
• Resected Tumor Outcome and Recurrence (RESTORE) Index for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Recurrence after Resection.
  Cancers 2023 Hoffman D, Shui A, Gill R, Syed S, Mehta N
• Difficult or high risk? Objective task assessment vs. faculty perceptions of surgical skills.
  Global Surgical Education - Journal of the Association for Surgical Education 2023 Anya L. Greenberg, Katherine E. Barnes, Mohammad M. Karimzada, Chiung-Yu Huang, Adnan Alseidi, Joseph H. Rapp, Patricia S. O’Sullivan, Hueylan Chern, Shareef M. Syed
• Faculty entrustment of residents in the operating room: the role for surgical simulation.
  Global Surgical Education - Journal of the Association for Surgical Education 2023 Anya L. Greenberg, Katherine E. Barnes, Shareef M. Syed, Joseph H. Rapp, Adnan Alseidi, Patricia S. O’Sullivan, Hueylan Chern
• Number of Local Regional Therapies for Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Peri-Operative Outcomes after Liver Transplantation.
  Cancers 2023 Brown AE, Shui AM, Adelmann D, Mehta N, Roll GR, Hirose R, Syed SM
• Robotic training for medical students: feasibility of a pilot simulation curriculum.
  Journal of robotic surgery 2022 Greenberg AL, Syed SM, Alseidi A, O'Sullivan PS, Chern H
• Communicating from a distance: medical student perspectives from a robotic bedside assist simulation.
  Global Surgical Education - Journal of the Association for Surgical Education 2022 Anya L. Greenberg, Shareef M. Syed, Adnan A. Alseidi, Patricia S. O’Sullivan, Hueylan Chern
• 214.1: Strategies to Achieve Long-term Insulin Independence Using a Multimodal Approach to Beta-cell Replacement in Patients With Type I Diabetes.
  Transplantation 2022 Steven Wisel, Miguel Nunez, James M Gardner, Giulia Worner, Garrett R Roll, Shareef M Syed, Gregory Szot, Medhi Tokhol, Kristina Johnson, Umesh Masharani, Andrew M Posselt, Peter G Stock
• 335.4: Use of Donation After Circulatory Death Donors for High Model for End-Stage Liver Disease Recipients.
  Transplantation 2022 Raphael Meier, Miguel Nunez, Shareef Syed, Chris Freise, John Roberts, Nancy Ascher, Ryutaro Hirose, Garrett Roll
• Assessment of Surgeon Performance of Advanced Open Surgical Skills Using a Microskills-Based Novel Curriculum.
  JAMA network open 2022 Greenberg AL, Karimzada MM, Brian R, Yap A, Luu HY, Ahmed S, Huang CY, Waits SA, Hirose R, Alseidi A, Rapp JH, O'Sullivan PS, Chern H, Syed SM
• 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
• Internal hernia involving the transplant ureter after simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplant - and the atypical management of a consequent transplant ureteral injury.
  Clinical transplantation 2022 Gupta AR, Kelly YM, Syed SM, Gardner JM
• Effects of Multi-stage Procurement on the Viability and Function of Human Donor Parathyroid Glands.
  The Journal of surgical research 2022 Kelly YM, Ward C, Zhang R, Syed S, Stock PG, Duh QY, Sosa JA, Koh J
• Procurement of Deceased Donor Parathyroid Glands With the Aid of Near-infrared Autofluorescence Imaging.
  Transplantation direct 2022 Ward CJ, Kelly YM, Syed SM, Meier RPH, Ando T, Wisel SA, Gardner JM, Stock PG, Duh QY
• Impact of Portable Normothermic Blood-Based Machine Perfusion on Outcomes of Liver Transplant: The OCS Liver PROTECT Randomized Clinical Trial.
  JAMA surgery 2022 Markmann JF, Abouljoud MS, Ghobrial RM, Bhati CS, Pelletier SJ, Lu AD, Ottmann S, Klair T, Eymard C, Roll GR, Magliocca J, Pruett TL, Reyes J, Black SM, Marsh CL, Schnickel G, Kinkhabwala M, Florman …
• Therapeutic Reasoning: A Conceptual Challenge for Medical Students' Surgical Clerkship.
  Teaching and learning in medicine 2022 Brian R, Syed S
• Machine learning to predict waitlist dropout among liver transplant candidates with hepatocellular carcinoma.
  Cancer medicine 2022 Kwong A, Hameed B, Syed S, Ho R, Mard H, Arshad S, Ho I, Suleman T, Yao F, Mehta N
• 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…
• Advanced Open Surgical Skill Simulation: Practice, Performance Benchmarking, and Perceptions.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2021 Riley Brian, Jon Freise, Saira Ahmed, Joseph Lin, Hueylan Chern, Shareef M. Syed
• Motivations and outcomes of compatible living donor-recipient pairs in paired exchange.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2021 Chipman V, Cooper M, Thomas AG, Ronin M, Lee B, Flechner S, Leeser D, Segev DL, Mandelbrot DA, Lunow-Luke T, Syed S, Hil G, Freise CE, Waterman AD, Roll GR
• Training Experiences of American Society of Transplant Surgeons Fellows in Deceased Donor Organ Procurement.
  Transplantation 2021 Connelly CR, Quillin RC, Biesterveld BE, Highet A, Schenk AD, Syed S, Bongu A, Waits SA
• 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
• Deceased Liver Donors.
  2021 Shareef Syed, Sandy Feng
• Understanding the Final Disposition of Livers Declined After the Start of Procurement: A Nationwide Organ Procurement Organization Effort.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2021 Neidlinger NA, Brown C, Wood P, Traseger J, Lebovitz D, Cauwels R, Syed S, Parekh JR, Roll GR
• 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
• CON: Portal Vein Thrombosis Does Not Impact Liver Transplantation Outcomes.
  Clinical liver disease 2020 Sherman C, Syed S, Gardner J, Yao FY
• COVID-19 and Abdominal Transplant: A Stepwise Approach to Practice During Pandemic Conditions.
  Transplantation 2020 Syed SM, Gardner J, Roll G, Webber A, Mehta N, Shoji J, Adelmann D, Niemann C, Braun HJ, Mello A, Yao F, Posselt A, Kang SM, Hirose R, Roberts J, Feng S, Ascher N, Stock P, Freise C
• How COVID-19 inspired surgical residents to rethink educational programs.
  American journal of surgery 2020 Brian R, Stock P, Syed S, Hirose K, Reilly L, O'Sullivan P
• PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHED RISK OF BILIARY COMPLICATIONS AFTER LIVER TRANSPLANT AND OUTCOME BY DONOR TYPE.
  Transplantation 2020 Raphael Meier, Yvonne Kelly, Seiji Yamagushi, Hillary Braun, Shareef Syed, Chris Freise, Nancy Ascher, John Roberts, Garrett Roll
• 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
• Long-term follow-up of beta cell replacement therapy in 10 HIV-infected patients with renal failure secondary to type 1 diabetes mellitus.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2020 Roll GR, Posselt AM, Freise J, Baird J, Syed S, Mo Kang S, Hirose R, Szot GL, Zarinsefat A, Feng S, Worner G, Sarwal M, Stock PG
• 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
• 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
• The Impact of Deceased Donor Liver Extraction Time on Early Allograft Function in Adult Liver Transplant Recipients.
  Transplantation 2018 Adelmann D, Roll GR, Kothari R, Syed S, Burdine LJ, Tavakol M, Niemann CU
• Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Alcoholic Liver Disease.
  Transplantation Journal 2018 Hillary Braun, Jennifer L. Dodge, Josh D. Grab, Shareef M. Syed, Garrett R. Roll, Chris E. Freise, John P. Roberts, Nancy L. Ascher
• Retransplantation after Living Donor Liver Transplantation.
  Transplantation Journal 2018 Garrett R. Roll, Hillary Braun, Josh D. Grab, Jennifer L. Dodge, Shareef M. Syed, Chris E. Freise, John P. Roberts, Nancy L. Ascher
• Outcomes of arterial bypass preceding resection of retroperitoneal masses involving major vessels.
  The Journal of surgical research 2018 Luu HY, Wang ED, Syed SM, Xu X, Hansen SL, Eichler CM, Nakakura EK
• Intraoperative Management of Liver Transplant Patients Without the Routine Use of Renal Replacement Therapy.
  Transplantation 2018 Adelmann D, Olmos A, Liu LL, Feiner JR, Roll GR, Burdine L, Tavakol M, Syed S, Orandi BJ, Niemann CU
• A benign gastric ulcer eroding into a splenic artery pseudoaneurysm presenting as a massive upper gastrointestinal bleed.
  Journal of surgical case reports 2014 Syed SM, Moradian S, Ahmed M, Ahmed U, Shaheen S, Stalin V
• Assessment of the financial implications for laparoscopic liver surgery: a single-centre UK cost analysis for minor and major hepatectomy.
  Surgical endoscopy 2013 Abu Hilal M, Di Fabio F, Syed S, Wiltshire R, Dimovska E, Turner D, Primrose JN, Pearce NW
• The relationship between nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and colorectal cancer: the future challenges and outcomes of the metabolic syndrome.
  Journal of obesity 2012 Muhidin SO, Magan AA, Osman KA, Syed S, Ahmed MH
• Laparoscopic right hepatectomy: a challenging, but feasible, safe and efficient procedure.
  American journal of surgery 2011 Pearce NW, Di Fabio F, Teng MJ, Syed S, Primrose JN, Abu Hilal M