R. M. Ghobrial, MD, PhD, FACS, FRCS

  • Houston Methodist liver transplant surgeon
  • Sherrie and Alan Conover Chair for Excellence in Liver Transplantation, Houston Methodist Hospital Sherrie and Alan Conover Center for Liver Disease & Transplantation
  • Professor of surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College
Media Contact: Amy Rose , 412.613.1428

R. M. Ghobrial, MD, PhD, FACS, FRCS

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Media Contact: Amy Rose , 412.613.1428

Areas of Expertise

  • Biliary disease
  • Hepatology
  • Liver biopsy
  • Liver surgery
  • Liver transplant
  • Liver/biliary diseases
  • Transplant surgery

Credentials

BOARD CERTIFICATION
American Board of Surgery
MEDICAL SCHOOL
Cairo University School of Medicine-Cairo, Egypt | 1980
RESIDENCY
University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX
INTERNSHIP
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
FELLOWSHIP
Liver Transplant Uni. of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) 96-98

Publications

Utilization of Immunotherapy as a Neoadjuvant Therapy for Liver Transplant Recipients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Abdelrahim, M, Esmail, A, Divatia, MK, Xu, J, Kodali, S, Victor, DW, Brombosz, E, Connor, AA, Saharia, A, Elaileh, A, Kaseb, AO & Ghobrial, RM 2024, , Journal of Clinical Medicine, vol. 13, no. 11, 3068. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm13113068

Macrophage niche imprinting as a determinant of macrophage identity and function
Kloc, M, Halasa, M & Ghobrial, RM 2024, , Cellular Immunology, vol. 399-400, 104825. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cellimm.2024.104825

Reunited: A vision for the future
Brown, RS & Ghobrial, RM 2024, , Liver Transplantation, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 460. https://doi.org/10.1097/LVT.0000000000000347

Proceedings of the 28th Annual Congress of the International Liver Transplantation Society
Shaji Mathew, J, Shingina, A, Khan, MQ, Wilson, E, Syn, N, Rammohan, A, Alconchel, F, Hakeem, AR, Shankar, S, Patel, D, Keskin, O, Liu, J, Nasralla, D, Mazzola, A, Patel, MS, Tanaka, T, Victor, D, Yoon, U, Yoon, YI, Vinaixa, C, Kirchner, V, De Martin, E, Ghobrial, RM & Chadha, R 2024, , Liver Transplantation, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 544-554. https://doi.org/10.1097/LVT.0000000000000330

Effect of a Hispanic outreach program on referral and liver transplantation volume at a single center
Kodali, S, Mobley, CM, Brombosz, EW, Lopez, A, Graves, R, Ontiveros, J, Velazquez, M, Saharia, A, Cheah, YL, Simon, CJ, Valverde, C, Brown, A, Corkrean, J, Moore, LW, Graviss, EA, Victor, DW, Maresh, K, Hobeika, MJ, Egwim, C & Ghobrial, RM 2024, , Transplant Immunology, vol. 84, 102034, pp. 102034. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trim.2024.102034

Single-center Outcomes After Liver Transplantation With SARS-CoV-2–Positive Donors: An Argument for Increased Utilization
Connor, AA, Adelman, MW, Mobley, CM, Moaddab, M, Erhardt, AJ, Hsu, DE, Brombosz, EW, Sanghvi, M, Lee Cheah, Y, Simon, CJ, Hobeika, MJ, Saharia, AS, Victor, DW, Kodali, S, Basra, T, Graviss, EA, Nguyen, DT, Elsaiey, A, Moore, LW, Nigo, M, Drews, AL, Grimes, KA, Arias, CA, Li, XC, Gaber, AO & Ghobrial, RM 2024, , Transplantation Direct, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. E1590. https://doi.org/10.1097/TXD.0000000000001590

Update on the Screening, Diagnosis, and Management of Cholangiocarcinoma
Kodali, S, Connor, AA, Brombosz, EW & Ghobrial, RM 2024, , Gastroenterology and Hepatology, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 151-158.

Bloodstream infections after solid organ transplantation: clinical epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance (2016–21)
Adelman, MW, Connor, AA, Hsu, E, Saharia, A, Mobley, CM, Victor, DW, Hobeika, MJ, Lin, J, Grimes, KA, Ramos, E, Pedroza, C, Brombosz, EW, Ghobrial, RM & Arias, CA 2024, , JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance, vol. 6, no. 1, 158, pp. dlad158. https://doi.org/10.1093/jacamr/dlad158

Invertebrate Immunity, Natural Transplantation Immunity, Somatic and Germ Cell Parasitism, and Transposon Defense
Kloc, M, Halasa, M, Kubiak, JZ & Ghobrial, RM 2024, , International journal of molecular sciences, vol. 25, no. 2, 1072. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25021072

CD4+ T cell immunity is dependent on an intrinsic stem-like program
Zou, D, Yin, Z, Yi, SG, Wang, G, Guo, Y, Xiao, X, Li, S, Zhang, X, Gonzalez, NM, Minze, LJ, Wang, L, Wong, STC, Osama Gaber, A, Ghobrial, RM, Li, XC & Chen, W 2024, , Nature immunology, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 66-76. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-023-01682-z

Degree of Discordance Between FIB-4 and Transient Elastography: An Application of Current Guidelines on General Population Cohort
Chang, M, Chang, D, Kodali, S, Harrison, SA, Ghobrial, M, Alkhouri, N & Noureddin, M 2024, , Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, vol. 22, no. 7, pp. 1453-1461.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2024.02.008

Gadolinium retention effect on macrophages — a potential cause of MRI contrast agent Dotarem toxicity
Halasa, M, Uosef, A, Ubelaker, HV, Subuddhi, A, Mysore, KR, Kubiak, JZ, Ghobrial, RM, Wosik, J & Kloc, M 2024, , Cell and Tissue Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00441-024-03885-8

ASO Visual Abstract: Treatment Disparities Partially Mediate Socioeconomic- and Race/Ethnicity-Based Survival Disparities in Stage I-II Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Swords, DS, Newhook, TE, Tzeng, CWD, Massarweh, NN, Chun, YS, Lee, S, Kaseb, AO, Ghobrial, M, Vauthey, JN & Tran Cao, HS 2023, , Annals of Surgical Oncology, vol. 30, no. 13, pp. 8019-8020. https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-023-14229-1

Transplant Oncology: An Emerging Discipline of Cancer Treatment
Abdelrahim, M, Esmail, A, Abudayyeh, A, Murakami, N, Victor, D, Kodali, S, Cheah, YL, Simon, CJ, Noureddin, M, Connor, A, Saharia, A, Moore, LW, Heyne, K, Kaseb, AO, Gaber, AO & Ghobrial, RM 2023, , Cancers, vol. 15, no. 22, 5337, pp. 5337. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers15225337

Treatment Disparities Partially Mediate Socioeconomic- and Race/Ethnicity-Based Survival Disparities in Stage I–II Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Swords, DS, Newhook, TE, Tzeng, CWD, Massarweh, NN, Chun, YS, Lee, S, Kaseb, AO, Ghobrial, M, Vauthey, JN & Tran Cao, HS 2023, , Annals of Surgical Oncology, vol. 30, no. 12, pp. 7309-7318. https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-023-14132-9

Management of Established Small-for-size Syndrome in Post Living Donor Liver Transplantation: Medical, Radiological, and Surgical Interventions: Guidelines from the ILTS-iLDLT-LTSI Consensus Conference
Kirchner, VA, Shankar, S, Victor, DW, Tanaka, T, Goldaracena, N, Troisi, RI, Olthoff, KM, Kim, JM, Pomfret, EA, Heaton, N, Polak, WG, Shukla, A, Mohanka, R, Balci, D, Ghobrial, M, Gupta, S, Maluf, D, Fung, JJ, Eguchi, S, Roberts, J, Eghtesad, B, Selzner, M, Prasad, R, Kasahara, M, Egawa, H, Lerut, J, Broering, D, Berenguer, M, Cattral, MS, Clavien, PA, Chen, CL, Shah, SR, Zhu, ZJ, Ascher, N, Ikegami, T, Bhangui, P, Rammohan, A, Emond, JC & Rela, M 2023, , Transplantation, vol. 107, no. 10, pp. 2238-2246. https://doi.org/10.1097/TP.0000000000004771

Modern Outcomes After Liver Retransplantation: A Single-center Experience
Connor, AA, Saharia, A, Mobley, CM, Hobeika, MJ, Victor, DW, Kodali, S, Brombosz, EW, Graviss, EA, Nguyen, DT, Moore, LW, Gaber, AO & Ghobrial, RM 2023, , Transplantation, vol. 107, no. 7, pp. 1513-1523. https://doi.org/10.1097/TP.0000000000004500

Development and validation of a REcurrent Liver cAncer Prediction ScorE (RELAPSE) following liver transplantation in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma: Analysis of the US Multicenter HCC Transplant Consortium
Tran, BV, Moris, D, Markovic, D, Zaribafzadeh, H, Henao, R, Lai, Q, Florman, SS, Tabrizian, P, Haydel, B, Ruiz, RM, Klintmalm, GB, Lee, DD, Taner, CB, Hoteit, M, Levine, MH, Cillo, U, Vitale, A, Verna, EC, Halazun, KJ, Tevar, AD, Humar, A, Chapman, WC, Vachharajani, N, Aucejo, F, Lerut, J, Ciccarelli, O, Nguyen, MH, Melcher, ML, Viveiros, A, Schaefer, B, Hoppe-Lotichius, M, Mittler, J, Nydam, TL, Markmann, JF, Rossi, M, Mobley, C, Ghobrial, M, Langnas, AN, Carney, CA, Berumen, J, Schnickel, GT, Sudan, DL, Hong, JC, Rana, A, Jones, CM, Fishbein, TM, Busuttil, RW, Barbas, AS & Agopian, VG 2023, , Liver Transplantation, vol. 29, no. 7, pp. 683-697. https://doi.org/10.1097/LVT.0000000000000145

Factors affecting survival after liver retransplantation: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Brombosz, EW, Moore, LW, Mobley, CM, Kodali, S, Saharia, A, Hobeika, MJ, Connor, AA, Victor, III, DW, Cheah, YL, Simon, CJ, Gaber, AO & Ghobrial, RM 2023, , Frontiers in Transplantation, vol. 2, pp. 1181770. https://doi.org/10.3389/frtra.2023.1181770


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  • English