University of California San Francisco

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Garrett
Roll
MD

Associate Professor of Surgery
Division of Transplant Surgery

Address

35 Medical Center Way, #001
San Francisco, CA 94143
United States

    Biography

    Dr. Roll completed both general surgery training and the abdominal organ transplant fellowship at the University of California San Francisco. During his training, Dr. Roll spent 2 years in Dr. Holger Willenbring's laboratory investigating liver cell therapy, as well as normal and pathologic liver regeneration. After fellowship Dr. Roll moved to England to become a Senior International Fellow in Liver Transplant and Multi Organ Procurement at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, one of the busiest liver transplant departments in the United Kingdom. There he gained valuable experience in the blossoming field of DCD liver transplant and normothermic machine liver perfusion prior to returning to UCSF.

    Since returning to UCSF in 2015, Dr. Roll has specialized in abdominal organ transplantation for both adults and children, including liver and kidney transplant surgery from living donors, complex hepatobiliary surgery, and kidney autotransplants for intractable ureteral problems. He also performs general surgery in patients with end-stage organ disease and patients taking immunosuppression. His expertise includes using minimally invasive surgical techniques.

    Within UCSF, Dr. Roll is an investigator on several clinical trials looking at outcomes for organ transplant recipients and advance organ preservation. He has leadership roles in patient safety and quality improvement at UCSF, in addition to teaching medical students and residents in multiple forums. Outside of UCSF, he serves on the editorial board of multiple peer reviewed journals.

    Education

    Education

    Boston College, BS, Finance, 1995-1999
    Brandeis University, Post Baccalaureate, Premedical, 1999-2001
    Temple University School of Medicine, MD, 2001-2005

    Residencies

    University of California, San Francisco, General Surgery, 2005-2012

    Fellowships
    Abdominal Transplant
    Start Year
    2012
    End Year
    2014

    Board Certifications

    American Board of Surgery, General Surgery

    Clinical Expertise

    Ascites

    Bile Duct Cancer (Cholangiocarcinoma)

    Bile Duct Injuries

    Bile Duct Strictures

    Bridging Therapies to Downstage HCC in Liver Transplant Setting

    Choledochal Cysts

    Deceased Donor Organ Utilization

    Gallbladder Cancer

    Kidney Transplantation

    Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy

    Liver Biopsy

    Hepatocellular Carcinoma (Primary Liver Cancer)

    Liver Cysts

    Liver Metastases (Secondary Liver Cancer)

    Liver Resection

    Liver Transplantation

    Living Donor Kidney Transplantation

    Living Donor Liver Transplantation

    Normothetic Machine Liver Perfusion

    Organ Donation of Cardiovascular Death

    Pancreas Transplantation

    Pediatric Kidney Transplantation

    Pediatric Liver Transplantation

    Portal Hypertension

    Clinical Interests

    Transplantation
    HBP surgery

    Clinical Trials

    1. Related Conditions: Liver Transplant| Start Date: | End Date:
    2. Related Conditions: HIV/AIDS, Kidney Transplant| Start Date: | End Date:

    In the News

    October, 16, 2015 | UCSF Transplant Surgery

    Research Interests

    Cell therapy with hepatocytes and hepatocyte-like cells derived from stem cells.
    Role of miRNA in liver regeneration

    Normothetic machine liver perfusion

    Publications

    MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 117
    1. Safety and Feasibility of Early Extubation in Liver Transplantation: Experience in 1555 Patients.
      Lacom C, Kothari RP, Mendez NV, Galli A, Roll GR, Bokoch MP, Legrand M, Adelmann D| | PubMed
    2. AAV capsid prioritization in normal and steatotic human livers maintained by machine perfusion.
      Kim JJ, Kurial SNT, Choksi PK, Nunez M, Lunow-Luke T, Bartel J, Driscoll J, Her CL, Dhillon S, Yue W, Murti A, Mao T, Ramos JN, Tiyaboonchai A, Grompe M, Mattis AN, Syed SM, Wang BM, Maher JJ, Roll GR, Willenbring H| | PubMed
    3. Association between bariatric surgery after kidney transplantation and graft and survival outcomes.
      Ku E, McCulloch CE, Roll GR, Adey D, Sood P, Posselt A, Grimes BA, Johansen KL| | PubMed
    4. Living Donor Candidates' Self-reported Health and Health Perceptions and Completion of Donor Evaluation: A Cohort Study.
      Ku E, Legaspi S, Copeland TP, Adey DB, Whelan AM, Roll GR, McCulloch CE, Lee BK, Johansen KL| | PubMed
    5. Renal Autotransplantation: Association Between Preoperative Disease Duration and Surgical Outcomes.
      Li KD, Pearce RJ, Sui W, Yang H, Freise C, Roll GR, Chi T, Stoller ML| | PubMed
    6. Dawn has arrived, illuminating thrilling opportunities and fresh challenges in a new era of United States transplantation.
      Hobeika MJ, Roll GR| | PubMed
    7. The type, duration, and severity of pretransplant kidney injury predict prolonged kidney dysfunction after liver transplantation.
      Dixon W, Feng S, Roll GR, Tavakol M, Fenton C, Cullaro G| | PubMed
    8. The future of liver transplantation.
      Feng S, Roll GR, Rouhani FJ, Sanchez Fueyo A| | PubMed
    9. Chapter 44 Use of living donors for HIV-positive transplant candidates.
      Garrett R. Roll, Peter G. Stock| | UCSF Research Profile
    10. Contributors to Volume 2.
      Marwan Abouljoud, Samir Abu-Gazala, Sami Akbulut, Hasan Al Harakeh, Essa M. Aleassa, Saleh A. Alqahtani, Nancy L. Ascher, Massimo Asolati, Federico Aucejo, Yanik J. Bababekov, Talia Baker, Rolf N. Barth, Johanna Bayer, Enrico Benedetti, Claudia Benedetti, Chandra S. Bhati, Deborah Bizzaro, Geoffrey J. Bond, Hillary J. Braun, Christopher E. Broelsch, Dieter C. Broering, Jonathan S. Bromberg, Robert S. Brown, Sara Y. Brucker, James T. Bui, Patrizia Burra, Joaquin Cagliani, Peter D. Carr-Boyd, Marilia Cascalho, Mark S. Cattral, See Ching Chan, Chao-long Chen, Daniel Cherqui, Ruben Ciria, Alice Crane, Paolo Cravedi, Choon Hyuck David Kwon, Catherine de Magnee, Francis L. Delmonico, Gregory De Prisco, Caterina Di Bella, Pierpaolo Di Cocco, Diego di Sabato, Geraldine Diaz, Morgan Dudkowski, Elizabeth Eagle, Daniel Eisenson, Jean C. Emond, Sukru Emre, Bo-Göran Ericzon, Sander S. Florman, Chris E. Freise, Jiri Fronek, John J. Fung, Lucrezia Furian, Armando Ganoza, L. Genedy, Germani Giacomo, Mariano Cesare Giglio, David Gorrell, Rainer W.G. Gruessner, Angelika C. Gruessner, Koji Hashimoto, Natalie Heffron, Thomas G. Heffron, Julie Heimbach, Joanna Hester, Taizo Hibi, Hirofumi Hirao, Abhinav Humar, Shin Hwang, Samuele Iesari, Volkan Ince, Burak Isik, Fadi Issa, Cheryl Jacobs, Stina Järvholm, Hoonbae Jeon, Liza Johannesson, Ann Kalis, Alyson Kaplan, Khalid Khan, Ajai Khanna, Ki H. Kim, Wan-Joon Kim, Haley Kittle, Stuart Knechtle, Sean Koppe, Ali Kord, Jakub Kristek, Shiva Kumar, Jerzy W. Kupiec-Weglinski, John Lake, John C. LaMattina, Sung-Gyu Lee, Jan Lerut, Tsan-Shiun Lin, Emanuela Lo Bianco, Chung Mau Lo, Massimo Malago, Saad Malik, Daniel G. Maluf, Lancelot Marique, Dominique E. Martin, George V. Mazariegos, George Mazariegos, Oliver McCallion, Lisa A. McGraw, Raphael P.H. Meier, Jonathan Merola, Charles Miller, Deok-Bog Moon, Hunter B. Moore, Yannick D. Muller, Silvio Nadalin, Ahmed A. Nada, Kojiro Nakamura, Brenda M. Ogle, Yasuhiro Ogura, Michael Olausson, Kim M. Olthoff, Aldwin Ong, Philippe Paci, Jorge A. Piedrahita, Antonio Pinna, Thierry Pirotte, Alejandro Pita, Jeffrey L. Platt, Elizabeth Anne Pomfret, James J. Pomposelli, Cristiano Quintini, Raymond Reding, John F. Renz, Michael D. Rizzari, John P. Roberts, Francine Roggen, Garrett R. Roll, David Sachs, David M. Salerno, Benjamin Samstein, Robin Schmitz, Nazia Selzner, Marco Senzolo, Tayfun Sonmez, Peter G. Stock, Parissa Tabrizian, Roberto Tambucci, Koichi Tanaka, Giuliano Testa, Sarang Thaker, Mary Thomson, Marie Tranäng, Roberto I. Troisi, Kiara A. Tulla, Madeline Tully, John Tumeh, Ivo Tzvetanov, Veysel Umman, Utku Unver, Prashanth Vallabhajosyula, Nabeel Wahid, Henryk E. Wilczek, Nicola Williams, Julia Xie, Kazuhiko Yamada, Sezai Yilmaz, Alberto Zanetto, Gianluigi Zaza, Murat Zeytunlu| | UCSF Research Profile