Mark Pedersen, M.D.
Assistant Professor

Dr. Pedersen is a native Texan and received his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. After completing his internal medicine residency at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Phoenix, he was pleased to return to Texas to complete his fellowships in gastroenterology and transplant hepatology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He is excited to be on a team that practices on the forefront of liver transplant. His clinical interests include cholestatic liver diseases, autoimmune liver diseases, viral hepatitis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, alcoholic hepatitis, autoimmune liver disease, cirrhosis, and liver transplantation. He is passionate about medical education and is currently the co-course director of the second year medical student course on digestive and liver diseases. Outside of medicine, Dr. Pedersen’s interests include running, hiking, reading, and spending time with his family.

Medical School

Baylor College of Medicine (2013)

Residency

University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix (2016), Internal Medicine

Fellowship

UT Southwestern Medical Center (2018), Gastroenterology

Fellowship

UT Southwestern Medical Center (2019), Transplant Hepatology

• Cholestatic Liver Diseases
• Liver Transplantation

Featured Publications

Ursodeoxycholic Acid Decreases Incidence of Primary Biliary Cholangitis and Biliary Complications After Liver Transplantation: A Meta-Analysis.

Pedersen MR, Greenan G, Arora S, Murali AR, Mayo MJ, Liver Transpl 2021 06 27 6 866-875

Survey of Liver Transplantation Practices for Severe Acute Alcoholic Hepatitis.

Bangaru S, Pedersen MR, MacConmara MP, Singal AG, Mufti AR, Liver Transpl. 2018 10 24 10 1357-1362

Effectiveness and Tolerability of Direct Acting Antiviral Therapy for Hepatitis C in a Real World Elderly Cohort.

Patel A, Backstedt DW, Abidali H, Choi M, Pedersen M, Seetharam A, Clin. Gastroenterol. Hepatol. 2017 04 15 4 603-604

Managing the Symptoms and Complications of Cholestasis.

Pedersen MR, Mayo MJ, Clin Liver Dis (Hoboken) 2020 Mar 15 3 120-124

Genotype specific peripheral lipid profile changes with hepatitis C therapy.

Pedersen MR, Patel A, Backstedt D, Choi M, Seetharam AB, World J. Gastroenterol. 2016 Dec 22 46 10226-10231

Pretransplant Factors and Associations with Postoperative Respiratory Failure, ICU Length of Stay, and Short-Term Survival after Liver Transplantation in a High MELD Population.

Pedersen MR, Choi M, Brink JA, Seetharam AB, J Transplant 2016 2016 6787854

Infections after orthotopic liver transplantation.

Pedersen M, Seetharam A, J Clin Exp Hepatol 2014 Dec 4 4 347-60

 Featured Books

Acute on Chronic Liver Failure. In The Critically Ill Cirrhotic Patient

Pedersen, M and Tujios, S (2019). Springer

• AASLD Fellow Ambassador Award
  American ASsociation for the Study of Liver Diseases (2018)
• Resident of the Year
  University of Arizona College of Medicine (2016)

• American Society of Transplantation (2018)
• American Gastroenterological Association (2016)
• American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (2015)