Oren K. Fix, MD, MSc
Research Interests
My research interests include acute liver failure (ALF) and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). I am a part of the multicenter Acute Liver Failure Study Group, which has been gathering clinical data, serum, and tissue as part of an ongoing registry, and conducting clinical trials to learn how to manage patients with ALF. I am particularly interested in intracranial pressure monitoring in ALF patients with cerebral edema. I am also interested in HCC and trying to find ways to reduce the number of patients who drop off the liver transplant waiting list because of tumor progression. We are about to begin an open-label study of sorafenib, an oral multikinase inhibitor, in patients on the liver transplant waiting list undergoing chemoembolization.
Selected Publications
- Oren K. Fix, Marion G. Peters, Timothy J. Davern. Eosinophilic hepatitis due to lamotrigine. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 2006 April;4(4):xxvi.
- Oren K. Fix. Selection criteria for liver transplantation in hepatocellular carcinoma: can we ignore tumor stage? Evidence-Based Gastroenterology 2007;8(1):23-24.
- Oren K. Fix, Nathan M. Bass, Teresa De Marco, Raphael B. Merriman. Long-term follow-up of portopulmonary hypertension: effect of treatment with epoprostenol. Liver Transplantation 2007;13(6):875-885.
- Oren K. Fix. Does a latte a day keep the hepatologist away? Hepatology 2008;47(1):348-351.
- Edie Y. Chan, Anne M. Larson, Oren K. Fix, Matthew M. Yeh, Adam E. Levy, Ramasamy Bakthavatsalam, Jeffrey B. Halldorson, Jorge D. Reyes, James D. Perkins. Identifying risk patient recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma after liver transplantation: implications for surveillance studies and new adjuvant therapies. Liver Transplantation 2008. 14(7):956-965.
- Oren K. Fix and Kris V. Kowdley. Hereditary hemochromatosis. Minerva Medica 2008;99(6):605-17.
- Assistant Clinic Professor of Medicine
- Gastroentrology/Transplant Hepatology
Research Theme
- Liver injury and repair (Liver transplantation)
Contact Information
- Oren.Fix@
ucsf.edu - Phone: (415) 476-2776
- Fax: (415) 353-0659
- 513 Parnassus Ave.
- Room, S-357
- Box 0538
- University of California, San Francisco
- San Francisco, CA. 94143-0780