Stanford offers advanced training in Adult Liver Transplant Anesthesiology, which will provide advanced knowledge, skills, and clinical experience in the perioperative care of liver transplant recipients, living liver donors, major hepatic resection, and complex, open vascular surgery. This Advanced Clinical Experience (ACE) anesthesiologist will be integrated into the multidisciplinary transplant team, including hepatology, abdominal transplant surgery, critical care, transfusion medicine, cardiology, pulmonology, and nephrology.

An annual average of 135 adult liver transplants are performed at Stanford, including simultaneous liver kidney, multi-visceral, lung-liver, heart-liver, and robot-assisted laparoscopic liver transplants. In addition, pediatric transplant experience is available with our Pediatric Liver Transplant Anesthesiology colleagues at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, one of the busiest pediatric transplant programs in the country.

We currently offer one ACE Liver Transplant anesthesiologist position each year to physicians who have both completed residency training in Anesthesiology, are at minimum board eligible, and can obtain a California medical license. The ACE individual spends 1.5 days/week as an attending working autonomously in the multispecialty division.

The curriculum for the ACE Liver Transplant anesthesiologist includes:

• involvement in resident education and quality improvement projects, as well as basic, translational, and/or clinical research
• the weekly transplant candidate selection committee meeting to participate in the care of transplant candidates
• shadowing surgical procurement teams during organ recovery operations and tour blood processing centers
• completing a minimum of 50 cases, working with an attending in the liver transplant team at Stanford and a resident 
• dedicated training in basic perioperative transesophageal echocardiography (PTEE) and point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) and will become at a minimum, testamurs of the National Board of Echocardiography in basic PTEE during or immediately following their ACE training. 
• attending one conference related to the perioperative care of liver transplantation or a related-subspecialty (i.e. ILTS, SATA, Shock, etc) 
• submitting their scholarship work for presentation

The Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford is a large academic department with more than 300 clinical and research faculty. We are located in Palo Alto on campus at Stanford University. 

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis starting one year prior to projected start dates. Fellows are expected to start in July or August of the academic year but there is flexibility in this determined on a case-by-case basis. 

Please contact:

George Zhou, MD
E-mail: george.zhou@stanford.edu