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Oren Fix, M.D., M.Sc.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Hepatology and Liver Transplantation
Department of Medicine
Contact Information
| Academic Office Division of Gastroenterology 513 Parnassus Avenue, Room S-357 San Francisco, CA 94143-0358 Phone: (415) 476-2777 415-476-0659 Oren.Fix@ucsf.edu | Liver Transplant Program 400 Parnassus Ave., Sixth Floor San Francisco, CA 94143 Phone: (415) 353-1888 Gastroenterology and Liver Faculty Practice 350 Parnassus Ave., Suite 410 San Francisco, CA 94143 Phone: (415) 353-2318 |
BiographyEducation
- 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
Residencies
- 1999-2002 Boston University Medical Center, Internal Medicine Residency
Fellowships
- 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
Board Certification
- American Board of Internal Medicine
- American Board of Internal Medicine - Gastroenterology
- American Board of Internal Medicine - Transplant Hepatology
Program Affiliations
- UCSF Liver Center
Clinical Expertise
- Alcoholic Liver Disease
- Autoimmune Hepatitis
- Cirrhosis
- Drug-Induced Hepatitis
- Fulminant Hepatic Failure
- Hemochromatosis
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Hepatocellular Carcinoma (Liver Cancer)
- Liver Transplantation
- Living Donor Liver Transplantation
- Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
- Polycystic Liver Disease
- Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
- Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
Research Interests
- Acute liver failure (ALF)
- Cardiopulmonary complications of chronic liver disease
- Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)
- Liver injury and repair (Liver transplantation)
Biography
Dr. Oren Fix specializes in treating liver cancer and liver transplant patients. His research interests include liver cancer treatment -- particularly liver transplantation -- as well as acute liver failure and portopulmonary hypertension. In addition to treating patients and conducting research, he is an assistant clinical professor of medicine at UCSF.
Fix received his M.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He completed his residency and gastroenterology fellowship at Boston University Medical Center, and also received a master's degree in epidemiology from the Boston University School of Public Health. Following a hepatology fellowship at UCSF, Fix worked at the University of Washington in Seattle before joining the UCSF faculty in 2008. He is the co-author of a chapter on viral hepatitis in the medical textbook, Global HIV/AIDS Medicine. He has also published several papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Fix is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in internal medicine, gastroenterology and transplant hepatology.
Research Summary
My research interests include acute liver failure (ALF), hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and cardiopulmonary complications of chronic liver disease. I am the site Principal Investigator of the NIH-funded multicenter Acute Liver Failure Study Group, which has been gathering clinical data, serum, and tissue for an ongoing registry, and conducting clinical trials in patients with acute liver injury and ALF. My specific research interests in ALF include intracranial pressure monitoring for cerebral edema, and management of mushroom poisoning.
Selected Publications
- 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 2009;69:620-625.
- 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].
