Dr. Marwan S Abouljoud
Address: 1 Ford Pace, Detroit, Michigan, 48202, United States, Wayne State University
Gender: Male
About the Doctor / Professional
Care Philosophy:
My philosophy is to provide cutting edge liver care in a compassionate and kind environment. Patients will be educated about their disease to make informed decisions and be treated with respect in a supportive and relaxed atmosphere.
Biographical Statement:
Dr. Marwan Abouljoud earned his medical degree from the American University of Beirut. His post-graduate training included the University of Michigan Hospital in general surgery, Henry Ford Hospital in general surgery, the University of Alabama in Birmingham in transplant surgery, and Baylor University Medical Center in transplant surgery.
Research Interests:
- Liver and kidney transplantation, including split liver transplantation
- Surgery for liver cancer
- Bleeding from cirrhosis of the liver and refractory ascites
Degree: American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine 1985
Residency: University of Michigan, General Surgery
- Dr. Marwan Abouljoud earned his medical degree from the American University of Beirut.
- His post-graduate training included the University of Michigan Hospital in general surgery, Henry Ford Hospital in general surgery, the University of Alabama in Birmingham in transplant surgery, and Baylor University Medical Center in transplant surgery.
- Dr. Marwan S Abouljoud currently is the Chief, Division of Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Benson Ford Chair, Henry Ford Transplant Institute.
- Dr. Marwan Abouljoud specializes in Transplant Surgery
- Dr. Marwan Abouljoudprovides services for Cancer Surgery, Intestine Transplant, Kidney Transplant, Liver Cancer, Liver Transplant, Liver Tumors, and Transplant Surgery.
- LAHC (Leaders Advancing and Helping Communities) Excellence and Achievement Award, 2019
- Alkebu-Lan Village Community Partner Award, 41st Anniversary Celebration, 2019
- Fred Whitehouse Lifetime Achievement Award, Henry Ford Medical Group, 2017
- American University of Beirut Surgical Alumni Association of North America, Outstanding Service Award, 2017
- Hour Detroit Top Doc: Organ Transplantation, Transplant and Hepatic Surgery, 2002-2010, 2012-2017
- America’s Top Doctors, Castle Connolly Medical, Ltd., 2005-2016
- Arab American of the Year Award, ACCESS 42nd Annual Anniversary Dinner, 2013
- Patient Choice Award, US News and World Report, 2008, 2009, 2012
- MOTTEP Vanguard Award, Gift of Life Michigan Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program, 2011
- Distinguished Physician of the Year Award by the National Arab American Medical Association, 2010
- Arab American Professional of the Year, The Arab American Professionals Network of the American Arab Chamber of Commerce, 2007
- Best Doctors in America: 2005-2006, 2007-2008
- Champion of Organ Donation, International Association for Organ Donation, 2004
- Shadow of a Leader Recognition, Henry Ford Health System - Each Patient First, 2003
- Benson Ford Chair in Transplantation Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, July 1998
- Charles Johnston Award: Awarded by the Detroit Surgical Association in May 1991 for best clinical paper presentation.
- The Impact of Portal Vein Thrombosis on Liver Transplant Outcomes: Does Grade or Flow Rate Matter?
- Effect of mandatory 6-month waiting period on waitlist and transplant outcomes in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.
- A Share 21 model in liver transplantation: Impact on waitlist outcomes.
- The molecular diagnosis of rejection in liver transplant biopsies: First results of the INTERLIVER study.
- Liver transplant waitlist outcomes in alcoholic hepatitis compared with other liver diseases: An analysis of UNOS registry.
- Effects of Intraoperative Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy on Outcomes in Liver Transplantation.
- Posttransplant Complications Predict Alcohol Relapse in Liver Transplant Recipients.
- Psychiatric Profile of Patients Currently Listed for Kidney Transplantation: Evidence of the Need for More Thorough Pretransplant Psychiatric Evaluations.
- Racial disparities in patient selection for liver transplantation: An ongoing challenge.
- Combined Chylothorax and Chylous Ascites Complicating Liver Transplantation: A Report of a Case and Review of the Literature.
- Factors associated with low graft regeneration in the early phase after living donor liver transplantation.
- Peri-transplant lactate levels and delayed lactate clearance as predictive factors for poor outcomes after liver transplantation: A propensity score-matched study.
- Increased Risk of Death in First Year After Liver Transplantation Among Patients With Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis vs Liver Disease of Other Etiologies.
- Should All Status 1A Patients Be Prioritized Over High MELD Patients? Concept of Risk Stratification in Extremely Ill Liver Transplant Recipients.
- Acupuncture in living liver and kidney donors: a feasibility study.
- Effects of Allocating Livers for Transplantation Based on Model for End-Stage Liver Disease-Sodium Scores on Patient Outcomes.
- Liver alone or simultaneous liver-kidney transplant? Pretransplant chronic kidney disease and post-transplant outcome - a retrospective study.
- Perspectives on Healthcare Provider Well-Being: Looking Back, Moving Forward.
- Leadership Perspectives on Integrating Psychologists into Specialty Care Clinics: An Evolving Paradigm.
- Outcomes at 7 years post-transplant in black vs nonblack kidney transplant recipients administered belatacept or cyclosporine in BENEFIT and BENEFIT-EXT.
- Brincidofovir as Salvage Therapy for Adenovirus Disease in Intestinal Transplant Recipients.
- Impact of abdominal shape on living liver donor outcomes in mini-incision right hepatic lobectomy: Comparison among 3 techniques.
- Outcome of liver transplantation in patients with prior bariatric surgery.
- Prediction of biliary anastomotic stricture after deceased donor liver transplantation: the impact of platelet counts - a retrospective study.
- Professional interpersonal dynamics and burnout in European transplant surgeons.
- Prognostic impact of postoperative low platelet count after liver transplantation.
- Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism in Liver Transplant Patients: Risks and Prevention.
- Lifestyle and Self-Management by Those Who Live It: Patients Engaging Patients in a Chronic Disease Model.
- Health Literacy Status Affects Outcomes for Patients Referred for Transplant.
- Cognition Predicts Quality of Life Among Patients With End-Stage Liver Disease.
- Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma in the Liver Explant After Liver Transplantation: Histological Differentiation and Prognosis.
- Rates of Kidney Transplantation From Living and Deceased Donors for Blacks and Whites in the United States, 1998 to 2011.
- Burnout in transplant nurses.
- Health literacy in patients referred for transplant: do patients have the capacity to understand?
- Post-transplant course of hepatitis C after living donor liver transplantation in association with polymorphisms near IFNL3.
- Ischemia time impacts recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma after liver transplantation.
- Liver transplantation for patient with pretransplant undetectable hepatitis C RNA: can eradication of virus guarantee superior outcome?
- Beyond survival: how well do transplanted livers work? A preliminary comparison of standard-risk, high-risk, and living donor recipients.
- The authors' reply.
- Peritransplant lymphopenia is a novel prognostic factor in recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma after liver transplantation.
- Mental health affects the quality of life and recovery after liver transplantation.
- Tenofovir-emtricitabine therapy for the prevention of hepatitis B recurrence in four patients after liver transplantation.
- Peritransplant absolute lymphocyte count as a predictive factor for advanced recurrence of hepatitis C after liver transplantation.
- Emergent nonconventional mesosystemic shunt for diffuse portomesenteric thrombosis: sparing patients from liver/multivisceral transplantation.
- Thrombolysis of portal vein thrombosis after splenectomy following liver transplantation.
- Transplant programs, centers, and institutes: what does it all mean?
- Recurrence of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and cryptogenic cirrhosis following orthotopic liver transplantation in the context of the metabolic syndrome.
- Mini-incision right hepatic lobectomy with or without laparoscopic assistance for living donor hepatectomy.
- Effect of standardized medication-order forms on medication errors after liver or kidney transplantation.
- Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt following liver transplantation: can outcomes be predicted?
- Outcome with surgical repair of extrahepatic portal vein aneurysms.
- Aberrant right hepatic duct draining into the cystic duct: clinical outcomes and management.
- Increasing trend in infection-related death-censored graft failure in renal transplantation.
- Duodenal enteroglucagonoma revealed by differential comparison of serum and tissue glucagon reactivity with Siemens' Double Glucagon Antibody and DakoCytomation's Polyclonal Rabbit Anti-Human Glucagon: a case report.
- Renal insufficiency after liver transplantation in the MELD era compared to the pre-MELD era.
- Adult portal hypertension secondary to posttraumatic extrahepatic portal vein thrombosis treated with Rex shunt.
- Risk of venous thrombosis in patients with hepatic malignancies undergoing surgical resection.
- Hepatitis C virus-specific T-cell gamma interferon and proliferative responses are more common in perihepatic lymph nodes than in peripheral blood or liver.
- Experience with recipient splenic artery inflow in adult liver transplantation: a case series.
- Preserving renal function in liver transplant recipients with rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin and delayed initiation of calcineurin inhibitors.
- Resection of giant liver adenoma in a 17-year-old adolescent boy using venovenous bypass, total hepatic vascular isolation, and in situ cooling.
- Successful internalization of a chronic biliary cutaneous fistula after liver transplantation: deepithelializing the fistula tract.
- Successful embolization of hepatocelluar carcinoma with yttrium-90 glass microspheres prior to liver transplantation.
- Impact of aberrant arterial anatomy and location of anastomosis on technical outcomes after liver transplantation.
- Cavernous hemangioma presenting as Budd-Chiari syndrome.
- Rapid progression of native renal artery fibromuscular dysplasia following kidney donation.
- The efficacy and limitations of sirolimus conversion in liver transplant patients who develop renal dysfunction on calcineurin inhibitors.
- Use of Yttrium-90 glass microspheres (TheraSphere) for the treatment of unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with portal vein thrombosis.
- Neoral rescue therapy in transplant patients with intolerance to tacrolimus.
- Bone Marrow Transplant
- Hepatobiliary Cancer
- Kidney Cancer Treatment
- Liver Cancer Treatment
- Lung Cancer Treatment
- Pancreatic Cancer Treatment
- General Surgery Consultation
- Hepatobiliary Surgery
- Intestinal/Multivisceral Transplant
- Kidney Transplant
- Liver Transplant
- Henry Ford Cancer Institute
- Henry Ford Transplant Institute