The Transplant Hepatology Fellowship at OHSU is an ACGME-accredited one-year program. As a fellow, you’ll work at a high-volume transplant center with diverse pathology in a collegial and supportive environment.

Fellowship objectives

The mission of the Transplant Hepatology Fellowship is to: 

• Train future transplant hepatologists in a multidisciplinary, collaborative environment
• Foster excellence in clinical care, a commitment to lifelong learning and teaching, and scholarship to advance the study of liver disease
• Ensure that fellows meet or exceed American Board of Internal Medicine requirements for board eligibility in transplant hepatology

As a fellow, you will:

• Gain clinical exposure to the inpatient hepatology consultative service, which includes management of decompensated cirrhosis and evaluation of inpatients for liver transplant
• Get significant clinical experience in outpatient hepatology, including general hepatology, liver transplant clinics and multidisciplinary hepatocellular carcinoma care
• Gain robust clinical exposure in liver pathology, with a focus on interpretation of specimens
• Teach trainees in the clinical environment and deliver didactics at hepatology conferences
• Conduct scholarship and research with the goal of presenting an abstract at a national conference or submitting a manuscript

Inpatient

As a hepatology fellow, you’ll spend six to eight months on the inpatient rotation, providing consultative service in hepatology and liver transplant.

Outpatient

Your ambulatory experience will include a weekly mix of general hepatology, multidisciplinary liver tumor and liver transplant clinics. At the liver transplant clinic, you’ll evaluate new patients for liver transplants and see pre- and post-transplant patients.

You’ll be able to participate in endoscopy at least a half day per week. You can also set time aside for administrative tasks and research.

Conferences

You’ll attend a weekly transplant selection committee meeting. There, you can present any patients undergoing inpatient or outpatient liver transplant evaluation.

You’ll also attend and present once a month at Hepatology Journal Club.

In addition, you’ll attend a bimonthly liver pathology conference where participants review explant specimens, post-transplant biopsies and other liver biopsies of interest.

Other opportunities

Depending on your clinical and research interests, you may pursue rotations with other pertinent subspecialties. Addiction medicine, palliative care and interventional radiology are some of the possibilities.

How to apply

Submit your application via the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD).

One position is available each year, through either of the following:

• The traditional pathway (three years of gastroenterology and one year of hepatology)
• An accelerated pathway (gastroenterology and hepatology in three years), which is open to OHSU GI fellows only

Eligibility requirements

To be eligible for the Transplant Hepatology Fellowship, you must:

• Have completed training in gastroenterology
• Meet the requirements for board eligibility in gastroenterology at the start of the fellowship
• Be able to work in the U.S. or obtain work authorization
• Have a valid Oregon medical license by the start of training

Important dates

The fellowship lasts one year and begins in July. Refer to the AASLD for application deadlines.

OHSU resources and related fellowships

• Gastroenterology Fellowship
• Fellowship Employment and Benefits
• Why Choose OHSU for Your Education
• OHSU Graduate Medical Education