Carlos O. Esquivel
Academic Appointments
- Professor - Med Center Line, Surgery - Multi-Organ Transplantation
Contact Information
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Clinical Offices
Surgical Specialities Clinic 300 Pasteur Dr A160 MC 5313 Stanford, CA 94305 Tel Work (650) 498-5689 Fax (650) 498-5690Medicine Specialties Clinic 730 Welch Rd 2nd Floor Palo Alto, CA 94304 Tel Work (650) 736-7642Practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
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Administrative Contact Katie Allen Administrative Assistant Email Tel Work 650-498-5689Not for medical emergencies or patient use
Professional Snapshot
Clinical Focus
- General Surgery
- Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation
- Liver Transplantation
- Surgical Critical Care
Administrative Appointments
- Director, Pediatric Liver Transplant Program, Stanford University (1995 - present)
- Vice Chairman, Department of Surgery, Stanford University (1995 - 1997)
- Director, Multiorgan Transplant Fellowship, Stanford University (1998 - present)
- Associate Director, Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection, Stanford University (2004 - present)
- Chief, Division of Transplantation, Stanford University (1998 - present) View All 6administrative appointments of Carlos Esquivel
Honors and Awards
- The Arnold and Barbara Silverman, Professor of Pediatric Transplantation, Stanford University (1999)
- Member, American Surgical Association (1997)
- Man of the Year, Costa Rica (1991)
- Fellow, American College of Surgeons (1990)
- National Research Service Award, NIH (1980)
Professional Education
| Board Certification: | Surgical Critical Care, American Board of Surgery (1989) |
| Board Certification: | General Surgery, American Board of Surgery (1985) |
| Fellowship: | University of Pittsburgh, PA (1985) |
| Residency: | UC Davis Medical Center, CA (1984) |
| Fellowship: | University of Lund, Sweden (1983) |
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Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations
Scientific Focus
Current Research Interests
My role in research is to bring clinical problems to the laboratory to find answers, which in turn, will improve patient care. Thus, my role is translational research in the field of liver and small bowel transplantation. The limiting factor in transplantation is the scarcity of organs leading to pretransplant mortality as high as 20%. Improvements in organ preservation would make more organs available to transplant centers. Our current efforts aim to study the effect of anti-freeze proteins on preservation of the liver and intestine. Our laboratories are also investigating mechanisms to induce immunotolerance after solid organ transplantation and to isolate markers that can document it. This has the potential to be very beneficial in clinical transplantation. Finally, the mechanisms by which EBV infections lead to lymphoid proliferation is also under investigation in our laboratories.
Clinical Trials
Publications
- Long-term outcome following pediatric liver transplantation for metabolic disorders. Pediatr Transplant. 2009
- Clinical models of tolerance induction in pediatric transplantation. Pediatr Transplant. 2009; (4): 397-9
- Decreases in circulating CD4+CD25hiFOXP3+ cells and increases in intragraft FOXP3+ cells accompany allograft rejection in pediatric liver allograft recipients. Pediatr Transplant. 2009; (1): 70-80
- Transarterial chemoinfusion for hepatocellular carcinoma as downstaging therapy and a bridge toward liver transplantation. Am J Transplant. 2009; (5): 1158-68
- SIR 2008 annual meeting film panel case: Alagille syndrome. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2008; (9): 1278-80
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