Lawrence P. McChesney, MD, FACS
Visiting Professor
Department of Surgery, Division of Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery
lawrence-mcchesney@uiowa.edu
Office Telephone: 319-384-6102
Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery Clinic
Telephone: 319-356-2902
Medical School:
- Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska
Residency:
- University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, Massachusetts
Fellowship:
- Rush Medical College; Rush-Presbyterian-St Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
Certification:
- American Board of Surgery
- National Board of Medical Examiners
- Advanced Trauma Life Support
Societies and Organizations:
- Alpha Omega Alpha
- National Board of Medical Examiners
- American College of Surgeons, Fellow
- Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons
- American Board of Surgery
- United Network for Organ Sharing
- Chicago Surgical Society
- Association for Academic Surgery
- American Chapter of the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association
- Society of Critical Care Medicine
- Cell Transplant Society
- The Transplantation Society
- American Society of Transplant Surgeons
- American Diabetes Association
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- International Liver Transplantation Society
- Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International
- Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
- Midwest Surgical Association
- American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
- Collegium Internationale Chirurgiae Digestivae
- National Transplant Society
- American Institute of Ultrasound Medicine
- American College of Gastroenterology
- Metropolitan Chicago Chapter - American College of Surgeons
- Rush Surgical Society
- American Society of Transplantation
- Citizens for Public Research and Education Funding
Selected Recent Publications :
- Demetriou, AA, Brown, SR, Busuttil, RW, ---McChesney, LP. Prospective, Randomized, Multicenter Controlled Trial of a Bioartifical Liver in Treating Acute Liver Failure. Ann Surg. 239(5):660-671, 2004.
- Ganger, DR, Hamilton, PD, Klos, DJ, Jakate S, McChesney L and Fernandez-Pol JA. Differential expression of metallopanstimulin/S27 ribosomal protein in hepatic regeneration and neoplasia. Cancer Detection and Prevention. 2001, 25(3):231-236.
- McChesney LP and Braithwaite S. Expectations and outcomes in organ transplantation. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. 1999, 8:299-310.
- McChesney LP. Advances in pancreas transplantation for the treatment of diabetes. In: Advances in Transplantation, Part II. Disease-a-Month*. Mosby, Inc., St. Louis, MO. March 1999, 45(3):88-100.
- McChesney LP, Fagan EA, Rowell DL, Del Rio JV, Fabrega F, Millis M and Williams JW. Extracorporeal Liver Perfusion: Implications for bioartificial liver support systems. The Lancet, January 9, 1999, 353:120-121.
- Mital D, Guo Z, Tian Y, Shen J, Podlasek W, Foster P, Sankary H, Jensik S. McChesney L, Chong A, Olack B, and Williams JW. Leflunomide-based immunosuppression for porcine islet xenotransplantation. Transplantation Proceedings 1998, 30:515.
- Guo Z, Mital D, Shen J, Chong A SF, Tian Y, Foster P, Sankary H, McChesney L, Jensik SC and Williams JW. Immunosuppression preventing concordant xenogeneic islet graft rejection is not sufficient to prevent recurrence of autoimmune diabetes in NOD mice. Transplantation 1998, 65: 1310-1314.
- Shen J, Chong A S-F, Xiao F, Liu W, Huang W, Blinder L, Foster P, Sankary H, Jensik S, McChesney L, Mital D, Williams JW. Histological characterization and pharmacological control of chronic rejection in xenogeneic and allogeneic heart transplantation. Transplantation 1998, 66;6: 692-698.
- Guo Z, Mital D, Shen J, Chong ASF, Tian Y, Foster P, Sankary H, McChesney L, Jensik SC and Williams JW. Differential effect of leflunomide on concordant xenogeneic islet graft rejection and recurrence of autoimmune diabetes. Transplantation Proceedings 1998, 30:463-464.
- Guo Z, Mital D, Mo YY, Tian Y, Shen J, Chong AS, Foster P, Sankary H, McChesney L, Jensik SC, Williams JW. Effect of gene gun-mediated CTLA4IG and Fas ligand gene transfection on concordant xenogeneic islet graft rejection. Transplantation Proceedings, 1998, 30;2:589.
- Guo Z, Chong A SF, Shen J, Foster P, Sankary HN, McChesney LP, Mital D, Jensik SC, Gebel and Williams JW. Leflunomide, a potential immunosuppressant for pancreatic islet transplantation. Transplantation Proceedings 1997, 29;1/2:1296-97.
- Guo Z, Chong ASF, Tian Y, Shen J, Yin D, Mital D, Foster P, Sankary H, McChesney LP, Jensik S and Williams JW. Effect of leflunomide and cyclosporine on concordant xenogeneic islet transplantation in streptozotocin-induced and autoimmune diabetic mice. Transplantation Proceedings 1997, 29:2155.
- Guo Z, Chong A SF, Shen J, Foster P, Sankary HN, McChesney L, Mital D, Jensik SC, Gebel H and Williams JW. In vivo effects of leflunomide on normal pancreatic islet and syngeneic islet graft function. Transplantation 1997, 63(5):716-721.
- Guo Z, Chong A SF, Shen J, Foster P, Sankary HN, McChesney L, Mital D, Jensik SC and Williams JW. Prolongation of rat islet allograft survival by the immunosuppressive agent, leflunomide. Transplantation 1997, 63(5):711-716.
- Mital D, Guo Z, Chong A-SF, Fu Z, Tian Y, Foster PF, Jensik S, Shen J, Sankary HN, McChesney LP, and Williams JW. Successful xenotransplantation of adult porcine islets in NOD and BALB/c mice with leflunomide and cyclosporine. Transplantation Proceedings. Transplantation Proceedings 1997, 29:2166-2167.
- Fabrega F, Foster PF, Sankary HN, Karademir S, Kociss K, McChesney LP, Williams JW. Liver transplantation for patients with alcoholic cirrhosis. Transplantation Proceedings 1997, 29:465-466.
- Foster PF, Sankary HN, McChesney L, Koukoulis G. Xiao F, Kociss K, Williams JW. CMV infection in the composite liver/intestinal/pancreas allograft. Transplantation Proceedings 1996, 28;5: 2720-2721.
- Xiao F, Shen J, Chong A, Foster PF, Sankary HN, McChesney L, Jensik S. Frieders D, Williams JW. Control and reversal of chronic xenograft rejection in hamster-to-rat cardiac transplantation. Transplant Proceedings 1996, 28;2: 691-692.
- Mital D, Foster PF, Jensik SC, Del Rio JV, Sankary HN, McChesney LP, Williams JW. Renal transplantation without sutures using the vascular clipping system for renal artery and vein anastomosis a new technique. Transplantation 1996, 62;8: 1171-73.
- Matalon TAS, Smith GS, Brunner M, Patel S, Greenlee W, Haklin M, Foster P, Sankary H, McChesney L, Williams J. Feasibility of using a swine portal vein containing a metallic stent for creating a portacaval shunt. Aca Radiol 1996: 3(4): 325-329.