Michael Wachs, MD
Professor, Surgery-Transplant

Professional Titles

• Professor, Surgery-Transplant
• Chief of Abdominal Transplant Surgery CHCO
• Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery

Teaching

Publications

• Chirichella TJ, Dunham CM, Zimmerman MA, Phelan EM, Mandell MS, Conzen KD, Kelley SE, Nydam TL, Bak TE, Kam I, Wachs ME. Donor preoperative oxygen delivery and post-extubation hypoxia impact donation after circulatory death hypoxic cholangiopathy. World J Gastroenterol. 2016 Mar 28;22(12):3392-403. PubMed PMID: 27022221
• Kriss M, Wachs M, Attwell A. An Unusual Cause of Right Upper Quadrant Pain in a Patient With Prior Liver Transplantation for Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis. Gastroenterology. 2016 Mar;150(3):e7-9. PubMed PMID: 26827800
• Mandell MS, Seres T, Lindenfeld J, Biggins SW, Chascsa D, Ahlgren B, Wachs M, Bambha KM. Risk factors associated with acute heart failure during liver transplant surgery: a case control study. Transplantation. 2015 Apr;99(4):873-8. PubMed PMID: 25208319
• Mandell MS, Seres T, Lindenfeld J, Biggins SW, Chascsa D, Ahlgren B, Wachs M, Bambha KM. Risk Factors Associated With Acute Heart Failure During Liver Transplant Surgery: A Case Control Study. Transplantation. 2014 Sep 9. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 25208319
• Kelly MA, Kaplan M, Nydam T, Wachs M, Bak T, Kam I, Zimmerman MA. Sirolimus reduces the risk of significant hepatic fibrosis after liver transplantation for hepatitis C virus: a single-center experience. Transplant Proc. 2013 Nov;45(9):3325-8. PubMed PMID: 24182811
• Maybrook RJ, Campsen J, Wachs ME, Levi ME. A case of Mycobacterium mucogenicum infection in a liver transplant recipient and a review of the literature. Transpl Infect Dis. 2013 Dec;15(6):E260-3. PubMed PMID: 24131754

Professional Memberships

• American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS), Member
• American Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (AHPBA), Member
• The Transplantation Society (TTS), Member
• Association for Academic Surgery (AAS), Member
• American College of Surgeons (ACS), Member
• International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS), Member
• American Association for the Study of Liver Disease (AASLD), Member