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Claus Ulrich Niemann, M.D.
AssociateProfessor of Surgery and Anesthesia
Co-Director, Ischemic Organ Injury Lab
Contact Information
Room U368T, Box 0648
University of California, San Francisco
521 Parnassus Avenue, C450
San Francisco, CA 94143-0648
Voice 415.502.2162
Fax 415.502.2224
niemannc@anesthesia.ucsf.edu
University of California, San Francisco
521 Parnassus Avenue, C450
San Francisco, CA 94143-0648
Voice 415.502.2162
Fax 415.502.2224
niemannc@anesthesia.ucsf.edu
Education
- 1986-93, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany, M.D.
Residencies
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1993-94, City Hospital St. Georg,, University of Hamburg, Germany, Intern, Emergency Medicine
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1993-94, Klinikum Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany, Intern, Gynecology
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1996-99, University of California, San Francisco, Resident, Anesthesia
Fellowships
- 1999-01, University of California, San Francisco, Fellow, Liver Transplant Research
Postdoctoral Training
- 1994-96, Department of Anesthesiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, Fellow, Postdoctoral Research
Board Certification
- American Board of Anesthesiology
Program Affiliations
- Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care
- Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation
Research Interests
- Inflammatory response to injury
- Ischemia reperfusion injury
- Liver transplantation
- Metabolomics
- Organ donation
- Renal and hepatic injury during surgery
- Intensive Insulin Therapy in Deceased Donors-to improve renal allograft function and transplanted allograft outcomes
Selected Publications
- Serkova NJ, Niemann CU. Pattern recognition and biomarker validation using quantitative 1H-NMR-based metabolomics. Expert Rev Mol Diagn. 2006 Sep;6(5):717-31.
- Niemann CU, Serkova NJ. Biochemical Mechanisms of Nephrotoxicity: Application for Metabolomics. Expert Opinion on Drug Metabolism & Toxicology. 2007 Aug;3(4):527-544.
- Niemann CU, Feiner J, Behrends M, Eilers H, Ascher NL, Roberts JP: Central venous pressure monitoring during living right donor hepatectomy. Liver Transplantation. 200713: 266-271,
- Sekova N, Jackman, Brown JL, Liu T, Hirose R, Roberts JP, Maher JJ, Niemann CU: Metabolic profiles of livers and blood from obese rats. J Hepatol. 2006 May;44(5):956-62. Epub 2005 Aug 2.
- Hirsch J, Hansen K, Choi J, Noh, J, Hirose R, Roberts JP, Matthay M, Burlingame A, Maher JJ, Niemann CU: Warm ischemia induced alterations in oxidative and inflammatory proteins in Kupffer cells. Mol Cell Proteomics. 2006 Jun;5(6):979-86 2006, Epub Apr 24.
