Daniel A. Katz, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Surgery
Division of Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery
daniel-katz@uiowa.edu
Office Telephone: 319-384-6102
Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery Clinic
Telephone: 319-356-2902
Medical School:
- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ
Residency:
- General Surgery, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ
Fellowship:
- Transplant Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Certification:
- American Board of Surgery
Honors and Achievements:
- 1996 Surgical Resident Academic Excellence Award
- 1995 Susan B. Deak Excellence in Surgery Research Award
- 1986 University Alumni Outstanding Student Recognition Award
- 2001 Above & Beyond the Call of Duty Award, UIHC
Societies and Organizations:
- American College of Surgeons
- American Medical Association
- Iowa Medical Society
- American Society of Transplantation
- International Liver Transplantation Society
Research Interests:
- Pretransplant risk factor assessment in renal and pancreas transplant patients in order to improve long term patient and organ outcomes specifically, preoperative cardiac risk stratification in diabetic renal and pancreas transplantations.
- Post transplant skin cancer
Study of mechanisms of chronic allograft rejection
Current Projects:
- "A multicenter, randomized, open-label, parallel group study to compare Neoral with C-2h monitoring to tacrolimus with trough monitoring in de novo liver transplant recipients." Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp.
- "Registry of Simulect (Basiliximab) use in living donor renal ransplants-ReSULTS." Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp.
- "A 6 month, multicenter, randomized, open-label study to compare the impact of Neoralâ C2 monitoring on safety and efficacy in de novo kidney transplant recipients." Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp.
Recent Peer-Reviewed Papers:
- Krause TJ, Katz D, Wheeler CJ, Ebner S, McKinnon RD. Increased Levels of Surgical Adhesions in TGF beta 1 Heterozygous Mice. Journal of Investigative Surgery, Jan 1999; 12(1): 31-8.
- Yilmaz S, Kirimlioglu V, Ertas E, Hilmioglu F, Yildirim B, Katz D, Mizrak B. Giant solitary fibrous tumor of the liver with metastasis to the skeletal system successfully treated with trisegmentectomy. Dig Dis Sci 45:1:168-174, 2000.
- Kirimlioglu V, Yilmaz S, Katz DA, Hilmioglu F, Caglikulekci M, Kayaalp C, Akoglu M, Aksoy F. Choledochal cyst spontaneously rupturing the hepatic artery. Dig Dis Sci 45:3:544-548,2000.
- Yilmaz S, Kirimlioglu V, Katz D, Caglikulekci M, Yilmaz M. Palliative decompression of obstructive hilar malignancies utilizing an extrahilar biliary approach. Dig Dis Sci 45:8:1585-93, 2000.
- Haimovich B. DiFazio L, Katz D, Greco RS, Dror Y, Freeman A: A New Method for Membrane Construction on ePTFE Vascular Grafts: Effect on surface morphology and platelet adhesion. Submitted for publication.
- Yilmaz S, Kirimlioglu V, Katz D, Caglikulekci M, Ara C. Bilhaemia: an unexpected complication of liver trauma. Eur J Surgery 167:7:542-5, 2001.
- Wu YM, Voigt M, Rayhill S, Katz D, Chenhsu R, Schmidt W, Miller R, Mitros F, LaBrecque D. Suprahepatic venacavaplasty (cavaplasty) with retrohepatic cava extension in liver transplantation: Experience with first 115 cases. Transplantation 72:1389-1394, 2001.
- Wu YM, Johlin FC, Katz D, Doornbos JF, Schmidt W, Chenhsu RY, Mitros FA, LaBrecque DR, Rayhill S. Orthotopic liver transplantation after radiotherapy plus en bloc total hepatectomy and partial pancreaticoduodenectoy for early stage cholangiocarcinoma complicating primary sclerosing cholangitis. Submitted, Annals of Surgery.
Recent Non Peer-Reviewed Papers:
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Yilmaz S, Kirimlioglu V, Katz D. Role of simple V-Y advancement flap in the treatment of complicated pilonidal sinus. Letter to the editor. Eur J Surg 166(3), 2000