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Dr. Varvara Kirchner completed her medical education and surgical residency at the University of Minnesota, followed by a fellowship in multi-organ transplantation. She further trained in living donor liver transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery at Asan Medical Center in Seoul, South Korea. Her clinical practice focuses on both living and deceased donor liver and kidney transplantation, particularly in adult and pediatric patients requiring total pancreatectomy and islet auto-transplantation, especially those suffering from chronic or acute recurrent pancreatitis. Dr. Kirchner serves as the Surgical Director of the Islet Cell Auto-Transplant program and the Associate Director of the Living Donor Liver Transplant Program at the Stanford University Division of Abdominal Transplantation. Her research interests lie in the biology of aging and cellular solid organ transplantation, with specific focus on auto-islet transplantation and iPSC-derived hepatocyte therapies for liver regeneration. Her research is supported by a NIA K08 Faculty Development Award.
Stanford University • Palo Alto, CA
Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery specializing in Abdominal Transplantation.
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford • Palo Alto, CA
Leads the Islet Cell Auto-Transplant program.
Stanford Healthcare • Palo Alto, CA
Oversees the Living Donor Liver Transplant Program.
Department of Surgery, Stanford University • Palo Alto, CA
Manages opportunity engagement initiatives.
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