Dev Desai, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Endowed Title: Distinguished Scholar in Medical Research
Department: Surgery, Pediatrics
Biography
Dr. Desai is a general and transplant surgeon specializing in liver, kidney, pancreas and intestinal transplantation, as well as open and laparoscopic hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, portal hypertensive vascular decompression procedures and laparoscopic donor nephrectomy. Dr. Desai is also head of pediatric abdominal transplantation at Children’s Medical Center.
Education
| Graduate School | University of California at San Francisco (1994) |
| Medical School | University of California, San Francisco (1995) |
| Internship | Stanford University Hospital (1996), General Surgery |
| Residency | Stanford University Hospital (1997), General Surgery |
| Fellowship | Stanford University Hospital (1998) |
| Residency | Stanford University Hospital (2001), General Surgery |
| Fellowship | Stanford University Hospital (2003), Transplant Surgery |
Specialty Areas
Clinical Interests
- Primary Interests
- Pediatric Kidney Transplant
- Pediatric Liver/Intestine Transplant
- Transplant Immunology
Publications
Featured Publications
Liver Transplantation
Desai, Esquivel Anesthesiologist’s Manual of Surgical Procedures, 3rd Ed 2003 Lippincott Williams Wilki
Half-Life Analysis of Pancreas and Kidney Transplants.
Marroquin, Edwards, Collins, Desai, Tuttle-Newhall, Kuo Transplantation 2005 80 272-275
Gastrointestinal hemorrhage due to complicated gastroduodenal ulcer disease in liver transplant patients taking sirolimus.
Smith, Bai, Marroquin, Tuttle-Newhall, Desai, Collins, Muir, Kuo, McHutchinson, Rockey. Clinical Transplantation 2005 19 250-254
The current status of living donor liver transplantation.
Tuttle-Newhall, Collins, Desai, Kuo, Heneghan Current Problems in Surgery 2005 42(3) 144-183
Perioperative Management of Special Populations: Immunocompromised Host
Desai, Kuo Surgery Clinics of North America 2005 85(6) 1267-1282
Honors/Awards
- ASTS-Novartis
Fellowship in Transplantation (2001) - International Pediatric Transplant Association
Travel Grant (2000) - Stanford University School of Medicine
John Henry Smith Award (2000) - Transplantation Society
Travel Grant (2000) - Pfizer/American College of Surgeson
Travel Award (1999)
Professional Associations/Affiliations
- American College of Surgeons
- American Society of Transplant Surgeons
- International Pediatric Transplant Association
- Society of University Surgeons
- United Network of Organ Sharing