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Maurice Galante, M.D., a legendary master surgeon at UCSF and renaissance man, died on February 5, 2013. His career is memorialized by the Maurice Galante Lecture Program and Maurice Galante Distinguished Professorship.
Sandy Feng, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Surgery
Division of Transplant Surgery
Director, Abdominal Transplant Fellowship Program
Contact Information
(415) 353-1551 Clinical, Kidney and Pancreas
(415) 353-8725 Academic
sandy.feng@ucsfmedctr.org
BiographyEducation
- Harvard College, B.A., Chemistry, 1979-82
- Cambridge University, England, Ph.D., Molecular Biology, 1982-85
- Stanford University School of Medicine, M.D., 1985-90
Residencies
- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Intern, Surgery, 1990-91
- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Resident, Surgery, 1991-94
- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Chief Resident, Surgery, 1994-95
Fellowships
- University of California, San Francisco, Fellow, Transplant Surgery, 1996-98
Postdoctoral Training
- Stanford University School of Medicine, Postdoctoral Fellow, Molecular Biology, 1986-88
- The Whitehead Institute, MIT, Postdoctoral Fellow, Molecular Biology, 1995-96
Board Certification
- American Board of Surgery, 1996
Program Affiliations
- The Liver Center at UCSF
- Clinical Fellowship, Division of Transplantation
- Director, Expanded Criteria Donor Kidney Transplant Program, University of California, San Francisco
- UCSF Hellen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Clinical Expertise
- Expanded Criteria Donor Kidney Transplantation
- Immunosuppression for Liver Transplantation
- Kidney Transplantation
- Liver Transplantation
- MELD Allocation and Living Donor Liver Transplantation
- Pancreas Transplantation
Research Interests
- Defining the Optimal Immunosuppression for Specific Transplant Settings
- Expanded Criteria Donors
- Immunosuppression Withdrawal and Identification of a Profile Predictive of Tolerance
- Immunosuppression Withdrawal for Stable Pediatric Living Donor Liver Transplant Recipients
- Improving Long-term Outcomes for Liver Transplant Recipients
- Novel Immunosuppression Strategies for Liver Transplantation
- Strategies to Decrease Ischemia Reperfusion Injury to Improve Early Graft Function after Kidney Transplantation
Biography
As Professor of Surgery and Director of the Abdominal Transplant Fellowship Program at UCSF, Dr. Sandy Feng performs liver, kidney and pancreas transplants and teaches surgical fellows, residents, and medical students. She received a doctorate in molecular biology from Cambridge University with her Marshall Scholarship and earned her medical degree at Stanford University School of Medicine. She then completed general surgery residency at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and a transplant fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco.
Dr. Feng has numerous leadership roles, including Councilor for the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, Deputy Editor for the American Journal of Transplantation, former Co-Chair of the Executive Planning Committee for the American Transplant Congress, and current Chair of the Kidney Pancreas Advisory Committee of the American Society of Transplantation. She has been an invited organizer or participant in several national consensus conferences addressing issues critical to the transplantation community.
Research Summary
Dr. Feng's research interest focuses on transplant immunology, with a particular focus on determinants of organ tolerance. She is also investigating novel immunosuppressive regimens and pursuing immunosuppression withdrawal in selected liver transplant recipients. By studying the immune profiles of transplant patients who are successfully weaned from immunosuppressants, she and her group hope to predict prospectively which patients may be good candidates for immunosuppression withdrawal.
Clinical Trials
Selected Publications
- Feng S, Goodrich NP, Bragg-Gresham JL, Dykstra DM, Punch JD, DebRoy MA, Greenstein SM, and Merion RM. Characteristics Associated with Liver Graft Failure: The Concept of a Donor Risk Index. American Journal of Transplantation 2006; 6(4): 783-790.
- Washburn K, Meo N, Halff G, Roberts J, and Feng S. Factors Influencing Liver Transplant Length of Stay at Two Large Volume Transplant Centers. Liver Transplantation 2009; 15(9): 1570-1578.
- Parekh J, Bostrom AB, and Feng S. Diabetes Mellitus: A Risk Factor for Delayed Graft Function after Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation. American Journal of Transplantation 2010; 10(1): 298-303.
- Seyfert-Margolis V and Feng S. Tolerance: Is it Achievable in Pediatric Solid Organ Transplantation? Pediatric Clinics of North America 2010; 57(2): 523-528.
- Feng S. Donor Intervention and Organ Preservation: Where is the Science? What are the Obstacles? American Journal of Transplantation 2010; 10(5): 1155-1162.
In the News
UCSF Transplant Surgeon Dr. Sandy Feng to Lead Consensus Conference on Kidney Paired Donation (KPD)
UCSF Division of Transplant Surgery - Feb 18, 2012In excess of 90,000 people are on the waiting list for kidney transplants, fewer than 17,000 receive one each year, and about 4,500 die on the waiting list. Even where a relative or friend is willing to donate a kidney, the kidney may not be a biological match. To address this problem, paired kidney exchange programs were created. Although it has been more than a decade since the first paired kidney exchange took place in the US, there is still no uniform system for these exchanges. Sandy Feng, M.D., Ph.D., a transplant surgeon at UCSF, is currently organizing the Consensus Conference on Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) taking place at the end of March 2012. Members of several stakeholder organizations, including the American Society of Transplantation (AST), the American Societies of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) and Nephrology (ASN), will discuss "pressing issues limiting implementation of KPD and develop a consensus-driven model to overcome barriers."
New Website Launched for Abdominal Transplant Fellowship Program
Division of Transplant Surgery - Jul 01, 2009The Abdominal Transplant Fellowship Program, led by Dr. Sandy Feng, has launched a new, updated website, one that will serve as a portal for current as well as aspiring transplant fellows. The rich didactic environment of the program is highlighted against the backdrop of its storied history. The program's distinguished alumni also have a section on the site, which features a link to the current biographical sketch of each respective physician.
Dr. Sandy Feng Updates Progress in immunosuppression for Liver Transplantation
UCTelevision - Jan 19, 2009Dr. Sandy Feng, Associate Professor of Surgery and Director of the UCSF Abdominal Transplant Fellowship Program. presents an update on the progress in immunosuppression for liver transplantation. Series: UCSF Transplant Update [1/2009] [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 15737].
