Director, Comprehensive Transplant Center;Chief, Division of Surgery-Organ Transplantation
General Surgery
Dr. Michael Abecassis, MD
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Michael Abecassis is an expert in the field of General Surgery. He over the years received 4 awards: "America's Top Doctors", "Chicago Magazine: Top Doctors", "Fellow (FACS)" and "Super Doctor". Michael Abecassis is a published doctor. He published 32 publications, including: 'Behavioral Screening and Intervention for Improving Lower-Extremity Arthroplasty Outcomes and Controlling Costs-Reply.' He accepts Medicare.
Publications
- Urine Metabolite Profiles Predictive of Human Kidney Allograft Status.
- Behavioral Screening and Intervention for Improving Lower-Extremity Arthroplasty Outcomes and Controlling Costs-Reply.
- Recipient Myd88 Deficiency Promotes Spontaneous Resolution of Kidney Allograft Rejection.
- A Surgeon's Guide to Bundled Payment Models for Episodes of Care.
- Simulation modeling of the impact of proposed new simultaneous Liver and kidney transplantation policies.
- The use of technology for urgent clinician to clinician communications: A systematic review of the literature.
- The impact of coronary artery Disease on outcomes after liver transplantation.
- Improving Geographic Equity in Kidney Transplantation Using Alternative Kidney Sharing and Optimization Modeling.
- A meta-analysis of complications following deceased donor Liver transplant.
- Medication misuse, non-adherence, and clinical outcomes among Liver transplant recipients.
- All That Glitters...
- Comparative Effectiveness of Liver Transplant Strategies for End-Stage Liver Disease Patients on Renal Replacement Therapy.
- Molecular Classifiers for Acute Kidney Transplant Rejection in Peripheral Blood by Whole Genome Gene Expression Profiling.
- Culturally competent transplant program improves Hispanics' knowledge and attitudes about live kidney donation and transplant.
- Radiation lobectomy: time-dependent analysis of future liver remnant volume in unresectable liver Cancer as a bridge to resection.
- Increased quality of life among hepatocellular carcinoma patients treated with radioembolization, compared with chemoembolization.
- Genomic Biomarkers Correlate with HLA-Identical Renal Transplant Tolerance.
- The emergence of top-down proteomics in clinical research.
- Opportunities for shared decision making in kidney transplantation.
- Yttrium-90 radioembolization for the treatment of unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts.
- A non-inDuction renal sparing approach after liver transplantation: high dose mycophenolate mofetil with delayed, low-dose tacrolimus.
- Tolerance inDuction in HLA disparate living donor kidney transplantation by donor stem cell infusion: durable chimerism predicts outcome.
- Systemic immunoregulatory and proteogenomic effects of tacrolimus to sirolimus conversion in Liver transplant recipients.
- Evolving approaches of hematopoietic stem cell-based therapies to induce tolerance to organ transplants: the long road to tolerance.
- NUTORC-a transdisciplinary health services and outcomes research team in transplantation.
- Outcomes and native renal recovery following simultaneous Liver-kidney transplantation.
- Radiologic-pathologic correlation of hepatocellular carcinoma treated with internal radiation using yttrium-90 microspheres.
- Intragraft TNF receptor signaling contributes to activation of innate and adaptive immunity in a renal allograft model.
- Transplant center regulations--a mixed blessing? An ASTS Council viewpoint.
- Tailoring antibody testing and how to use it in the calculated panel reactive antibody era: the Northwestern University experience.
- Epigenetic control of cytomegalovirus latency and reactivation.
Schools
University Of Toronto Faculty Of Medicine
Procedures Preformed
- Colectomy
- Dressing and-or Debridement of Wound, Infection, or Burn (incl. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy)
- Excision of Bile Duct Tumor
- Gallbladder Removal (Cholecystectomy), Open
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Conditions Treated
- Abdominal Pain
- Appendicitis
- Atelectasis
- Bile Duct Cancer
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Doctors Specialties
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- Chicago Magazine: Top Doctors
- Fellow (FACS)
- Super Doctor
Education
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University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics -
University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
Hospital
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Northwestern Memorial Hospital
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