T. Mark Earl, M.D.

Dr. Earl graduated cum laude from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia with a degree in Chemistry. He then returned to his home state and received his medical degree from the University of Texas School of Medicine – San Antonio in 2002 graduating number one in his class. He received several honors including election to the medical school honor society, AOA, during his third year. Following medical school, Dr. Earl entered general surgery residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Early in his residency he had extensive exposure to transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery and elected to spend two years studying liver disease under the mentorship of Dr. Ravi Chari in Nashville. During this time Dr. Earl received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health studying the role of liver steatosis and innate immunity in the spread of colorectal cancer to the liver and completed the Master of Science in Clinical Investigation (MSCI) program at Vanderbilt. In 2009, Dr. Earl completed his surgery residency and traveled to St. Louis to complete a fellowship in abdominal organ transplantation and liver surgery under Dr. Will Chapman at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children’s Hospital. During this time he gained extensive experience in all aspects of adult and pediatric abdominal organ transplantation as well as non-transplant liver and pancreas surgery. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in the fields of liver transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery. His scientific interests lie in studying how microRNA regulation contributes to the formation of liver cancers and the role of fatty liver in the metastatic spread of colon cancers to the liver. On the clinical front, Dr. Earl is interested in the roles of resection and transplantation in the treatment of liver cancer and the use of liver transplantation for cancer of the extra-hepatic bile ducts.

Dr. Earl is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Oregon Health and Science University in the Division of Abdominal Organ Transplantation. His practice includes liver, kidney and pancreas transplantation; live donor surgeries; and non-transplant liver surgery utilizing both traditional open and laparoscopic techniques.