Journal of Clinical and Experimental Transplantation
Open Access

Biography

Dr. Jeffrey Halldorson is Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of California, San Diego, specializing in all aspects of liver, kidney and pancreas transplantation, along with liver and hepatobiliary surgery. Dr. Halldorson completed his M.D. at the University of Michigan Medical School, his surgery residency at the University of Minnesota, and four years of post-doctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania studying molecular biology and gene therapy. Board certified in General Surgery, he also did a two-year fellowship in multi-organ transplantation at the University of California, San Francisco. In 2003 Dr. Halldorson was appointed Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington. In 2012 he joined the UCSD transplant group. He has now performed over 250 liver, 300 kidney and 30 pancreas transplants as lead surgeon with excellent results. Dr. Halldorson has authored numerous manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and is on the editorial board of several surgical journals.

Research Interest

Kidney Transplantation, Liver Transplantation, Pancreas Transplantation, Surgery Hepatobiliary Surger, Optimizing matching between donor organs and recipients to improve outcomes, Optimizing matching between donor organs and recipients to improve outcomes, Liver allocation strategy and policy