Oren K. Fix, M.D., M.Sc.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Hepatology and Liver Transplantation
Associate Director, Advanced Transplant Hepatology Fellowship Program
Academic Office
Division of Gastroenterology
513 Parnassus Avenue, Room S-357
San Francisco, CA 94143-0538
Phone: 415-476-2777
Fax: 415-476-0659
Liver Transplant Clinic
400 Parnassus Avenue, 6th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: 415-353-2318
Fax: 415-353-2407
Hepatology Clinic
Gastroenterology Faculty Practice
350 Parnassus Avenue, Suite 410
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: 415-353-2318
Fax: 415-476-0659
EDUCATION
| 1991-1995 | Cornell University, BS, Biological Sciences |
| 1995-1999 | State University of New York at Buffalo, MD |
| 2003-2005 | Boston University School of Public Health, MSc Epidemiology |
| 2003-2005 | Boston University School of Medicine, Clinical Research Training Scholar |
TRAINING
| 999-2002 | Boston University Medical Center, Internal Medicine Residency |
| 2002-2005 | Boston University Medical Center, Gastroenterology Fellowship |
| 2005-2006 | University of California, San Francisco, Transplant Hepatology Fellowship |
| 2010-present | UCSF School of Medicine Teaching Scholars Program |
LICENSES AND CERTIFICATION
| 2001-2008 | Medical licensure, Massachusetts |
| 2006-2008 | Medical licensure, Washington |
| 2005-present | Medical licensure, California |
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| 2002 | American Board of Internal Medicine |
| 2005 | American Board of Internal Medicine – Gastroenterology |
| 2006 | American Board of Internal Medicine – Transplant Hepatology |
MEMBERSHIPS
| 2002-present | American Gastroenterological Association |
| 2002-present | American College of Gastroenterology |
| 2005-present | American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases |
| 2006-present | American Society of Transplantation |
| 2006-2008 | Pacific Northwest Gastroenterology Society |
SERVICE TO PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
| 2008 | United Network for Organ Sharing, Liver Physician Representative to Region 6 Regional Board |
| 2009-present | American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases Annual Meeting Education Committee |
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
| 2009-present | UCSF School of Medicine Committee on Admissions |
| 2010-present | Transplant Quality Improvement Committee |
| 2010-present | Department of Medicine Strategic Priorities, Recruitment and Retention Committee |
RESEARCH FUNDING
| 2009-present | A Multi-Center Study of Acute Liver Failure in Adults |
| U01DK058369 NIH-NIDDK |
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Oren K. Fix, Jorge A. Soto, Charles W. Andrews, Jr., Francis A. Farraye. Gastroduodenal Crohn's disease. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 2004 December;60(6):985.
- David Nunes, Catherine Fleming, Gwynneth Offner, Michael O'Brien, Sheila Tumilty, Oren Fix, Timothy Heeren, Margaret Koziel, Camilla Graham, Donald E. Craven, Sheri Stuver, C. Robert Horsburgh, Jr. HIV infection does not affect the performance of noninvasive markers of fibrosis for the diagnosis of hepatitis C virus-related liver disease. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 2005 December; 40(15):538-544.
- 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, Jonathan T. Simon, Francis A. Farraye, Jaime A. Oviedo, Daniel S. Pratt, William T. Chen, David R. Cave. Obscure gastrointestinal hemorrhage from mesenteric varices diagnosed by video capsule endoscopy. Digestive Diseases and Sciences 2006 July;51(7):1169-74.
- Oren K. Fix, Lloyd E. Damon, Nathan M. Bass. Amyloidosis localized to the liver. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 2007 Feb;5(2):e7.
- 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, Stephen A. Locarnini, Marion G. Peters. Virology and clinical management of HIV and hepatitis B coinfection. The PRN Notebook 2007;11(4):16-23.
- 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.
- Marion Peters and Oren K. Fix. Hepatitis virus infections. In: PA Volberding, MA Sande, J Lange and WC Greene (Eds.) Global HIV/AIDS Medicine. Philadelphia: Elsevier; 2008. p. 415-423.
- 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.
- Jeffrey B. Halldorson, Ramasamy Bakthavatsalam, Oren Fix, Jorge D. Reyes, James D. Perkins. D-MELD, a simple predictor of post liver transplant mortality for optimization of donor/recipient matching. American Journal of Transplantation 2009;9(2):318-326.
- James D. Perkins, Jeffrey B. Halldorson, Ramasamy Bakthvatsalam, Oren K. Fix, Robert L. Carithers, Jr., Jorge D. Reyes. Should liver transplantation in patients with model for end-stage liver disease scores < or = 14 be avoided? A decision analysis approach. Liver Transplantation 2009;15(2):242-254.
- Edwin J. Lai, Audrey H. Calderwood, Gheorge Doros, Oren K. Fix, Brian C. Jacobson. The Boston Bowel Preparation Scale: A valid and reliable instrument for colonoscopy-oriented research. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 2008;69:620-625.
- Oren K. Fix and Kris V. Kowdley. Hereditary Hemochromatosis. Minerva Medica 2008;99(6):605-617.
- David Nunes, Catherine Fleming, Gwynneth Offner, Donald Craven, Oren Fix, Timothy Heeren, Margaret J Koziel, Camilla Graham, Sheila Tumilty, Paul Skolnik, Sherri Stuver, C Robert Horsburgh Jr, Deborah Cotton. Noninvasive markers of liver fibrosis are highly predictive of liver-related death in a cohort of HCV-infected individuals with and without HIV infection. American Journal of Gastroenterology 2010 [Epub ahead of print].
- Parsia A. Vagefi, Ingo Klein, Bruce Gelb, Bilal Hameed, Stephen L. Moff, Jeff P. Simko, Oren K. Fix, Helge Eilers, John R. Feiner, Nancy L. Ascher, Chris E. Freise, Nathan M. Bass. Emergent orthotopic liver transplantation for hemorrhage from a giant cavernous hepatic hemangioma: case report and review. Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery 2010 June 12 [Epub ahead of print].
- Raval Z, Harinstein ME, Skaro AI, Erdogan A, DeWolf AM, Shah SJ, Fix OK, Kay N, Abecassis MI, Gheorghiade M, Flaherty JD. Cardiovascular risk assessment of the liver transplant candidate. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2011 Jul 12;58(3):223-31.
- Findlay JY, Fix OK, Paugam-Burtz C, Liu L, Sood P, Tomlanovich SJ, Emond J. Critical care of the end-stage liver disease patient awaiting liver transplantation. Liver Transpl. 2011 May;17(5):496-510.
- Mukhtar NA, Fix OK. Portopulmonary hypertension. J Clin Gastroenterol. 2011 Sep;45(8):703-10.
- Calderwood AH, Lai EJ, Fix OK, Jacobson BC. An endoscopist-blinded, randomized, controlled trial of a simple visual aid to improve bowel preparation for screening colonoscopy. Gastrointest Endosc. 2011 Feb;73(2):307-14. Epub 2010 Dec 18.