Sarah R. Lieber, M.D. Titles and Appointments Director, Liver Community Health Engagement Program Assistant Professor Schools Medical School Departments Internal Medicine You have reached the Academic Profile. For more information on the doctor and patient care, please visit the clinical profile. Biography Sarah R. Lieber, M.D., M.S.C.R., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center, and a member of the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases. Her clinical practice emphasizes patient-centered care for individuals with advanced liver disease in need of liver transplantation. Originally from New Jersey, Dr. Lieber holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She earned her medical degree at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and completed a residency in internal medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. She then received advanced training in gastroenterology and transplant hepatology through fellowships at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also holds a master’s degree in clinical research from UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health. Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, Dr. Lieber joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2020. Dr. Lieber's research interests are focused on survivorship after liver transplantation, including patient-reported and medical outcomes, as well as implementation of health behavior interventions. She serves as an ad hoc reviewer for Liver Transplantation, Hepatology, The American Journal of Bioethics, American Journal of Transplantation, and Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Dr. Lieber is a member of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), the American College of Gastroenterology, the American Gastroenterological Association, the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the American Society of Transplantation, and the European Association for the Study of the Liver. Dr. Lieber is the recipient of the 2022-2025 ACG Junior Faculty Development Award, Cary Council DocStar Award (2024-2025), 2021-2022 KL2 Scholar Award, 2018 AASLD Innovation Award and the 2019 AASLD Advanced/Transplant Hepatology Award. She is current NIH-funded on a K23 from the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Disease (NIDDK). Personal Note Dr. Lieber’s interests outside of medicine include cooking, cycling, traveling, and spending time with her family and dogs. Education Medical Education University of Michigan Medical School (2013) Internship Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital (2014) Residency Mount Sinai Medical Center (2016), Internal Medicine Internship Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital (2016) Graduate School Gillings School of Public Health - University of North Carolina (2019), Master of Science in Clinical Research Other Gillings School of Public Health University of North Carolina (UNC) (2019), Master of Science in Clinical Research Other Gillings School of Public Health University of North Carolina (UNC) (2019), Master of Science in Clinical Research Fellowship University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (2019), Gastroenterology Fellowship University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (2020), Transplant Hepatology Research Interest Health Behavior Intervention Adaptation and Implementation Liver Transplantation Outcomes Patient-reported Outcomes in Advanced Liver Disease and Liver Transplantation Survivorship after Liver Transplantation Publications Beyond survival: Creation of a novel composite index to assess value-based care in liver transplantation Jafari BA, Matevish LE, Hariharakumar SL, Anouti A, Lieber SR, Kwon YK, Axelrod D, Mufti A, Vagefi PA, Patel MS Surgery (United States) 2026 Jun 194 Psychiatric Disease and Medical Financial Burden Among Commercially Insured Adult Kidney Transplant Recipients in the United States Matevish LE, Jiang Y, Jones AR, Yao Z, Lippe BJ, Wojciechowski D, Shah JA, Levea SL, Vagefi PA, Singal AG, VanWagner LB, Lieber SR, Patel MS Clinical Transplantation 2026 Mar 40 Survivorship interventions after liver transplantation (LT): A systematic review of interventions targeting physical and psychosocial well-being after LT Lieber SR, Jones AR, Gowda P, Tadros MM, Bardhi O, Rogal SS, Tujios SR, Mufti AR, Kerr TA, Noriega Ramirez A, VanWagner LB, Singal AG, Evon DM, Serper M Liver Transplantation 2026 Feb 32 Medication adherence and telehealth interventions after liver transplantation: A systematic review and meta-analysis Lieber SR, Bardhi O, Jones AR, Gowda P, Tadros MM, Botla K, Al-Hasan M, Olumesi MC, Ngo VM, Francois Whitt J, Powe EB, Patel MS, Louissaint J, Grant LM, Mufti A, Noriega Ramirez A, Rogal SS, Serper M, Lee SC, Evon DM, VanWagner LB, Singal A Liver Transplantation 2026 S2856 Sexual Health After Liver Transplantation: A Vital Aspect of Survivorship Affecting Quality of Life Thimphitthaya C, Noriega Ramirez A, Gregory D, Mufti A, Tujios S, Van Wagner L, Singal A, Ufere N, Lieber SR American Journal of Gastroenterology 2025 Oct 120 S614-S614 S2875 The Impact of Aging on Coping Strategies and Psychological Health Metrics After Liver Transplantation Botla K, Klatzkow HR, Noriega Ramirez A, Gregory D, Mufti A, Kerr TA, Van Wagner L, Singal A, Lieber SR American Journal of Gastroenterology 2025 Oct 120 S618-S618 Opioid use after adult liver transplantation: Incidence, high-risk use, and adverse events in a large US cohort Lieber SR, Bardhi O, Jiang Y, Jones AR, Gowda P, Tujios SR, Tirone W, Patel MS, Vagefi P, Hanish S, Ngo V, Olumesi M, Whitt JF, Trudeau R, Mufti A, Lippe B, Evon DM, Singal AG, Vanwagner LB Hepatology Communications 2025 Aug 9 Timing and Method of Patient-Provider Communication for Abnormal Hepatocellular Carcinoma Screening Results in Cirrhosis Louissaint J, Kyalwazi B, Deng J, Hogan TP, Turer RW, Tapper EB, Gerber DE, Steitz BD, Lieber SR, Singal AG JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics 2025 May 9 Disparities in Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease Hospital Encounters Amongst a Texas-Based Cohort of Patients Cotter TG, Anouti A, Zhang B, Rady ED, Patel M, Patel S, Ellis DJ, Lieber SR, Rich NE, O'Leary JG, Mitchell MC, Singal AG Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics 2025 Mar 61 988-999 Quantile regression in the field of liver transplantation: A case study-based tutorial Jiang Y, Lieber SR Liver Transplantation 2025 Feb 31 221-230 Results 1-10 of 56 1 2 3 4 5 Next Last Books Featured Books Individual Rights versus the Public Interest: Outbreak. In The Picture of Health: Medical Ethics and the Movies Lieber SR (2015). New York, Oxford University Press Honors & Awards NIDDK K23Studying Survivorship Trajectories After Liver Transplantation: Identifying At-Risk Survivors Needing Intervention (2025) Cary Council DocStarsStudying Survivorship after Liver Transplantation: Mapping Phenotypes to Identify At-Risk Survivors Needing Intervention (2024-2025) American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant (2023-2024) American College of Gastroenterology Junior Faculty Development Award (2022-2025) KL2 Research Scholar (2021-2022) AASLD Advanced/Transplant Hepatology AwardAmerican Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (2019-2021) Alpha Omega AlphaMedical Honor Society (2019) AASLD Innovation FundAmerican Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (2018-2020) Professional Associations/Affiliations American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases American College of Gastroenterology American Gastroenterology Association American Society for Transplantation European Association for Study of Liver Disease
