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Carlos O. Esquivel

Contact Information

  • Clinical Offices
    Surgical Specialities Clinic 300 Pasteur Dr A160 MC 5313 Stanford, CA 94305
    Telephone Work (650) 498-5689 Fax (650) 498-5690
    Medicine Specialties Clinic 730 Welch Rd 2nd Floor Palo Alto, CA 94304
    Telephone Work (650) 736-7642 Fax
  • Academic Offices
    Personal Information
    Administrative Contact
    Katie Allen Administrative Assistant Tel Work 650-498-5689
    Not for medical emergencies or patient use

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 )
  • Associate Director, Stanford Institute of Immunity, Tranplantation and Infection, Stanford University School of Medicine , (2004– present )

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)
  • University of Pittsburgh (1985) PA
  • UC Davis Medical Center (1984) CA
  • University of Lund (1983) Sweden
  • UC Davis Medical Center (1978) CA
  • University of Costa Rica School of Medicine (1975) Costa Rica
  • Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh Transplantation (1985)
  • Residency, University of California, Davis Surgery (1984)
  • Internship, University of California, Davis Surgery (1978)
  • Ph.D., University of Lund, Sweden Medicine (1983)
  • MD, University of Costa Rica Medicine (1975)

Postdoctoral Advisees

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

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.

Publications