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Transplant Surgery »  Faculty »  Matthew H. Levine, M.D., Ph.D.

Matthew H. Levine, M.D., Ph.D.

Clinical Instructor of Surgery

Contact Information

(415) 353-1888 Clinical, Liver

(415) 353-1551 Clinical, Kidney and Pancreas

(415) 353-8725 Academic

levinem@surgery.ucsf.edu

Education

  • Brown Unviersity, Providence, RI, BS, Biochemistry, 1990-94
  • Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, M.D., 1994-01
  • Yale University, New Haven, CT, Ph.D., Immunobiology, 1994-01

Residencies

  • The Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, Intern, General Surgery, 2001-02
  • The Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, Resident, General Surgery, 2002-06

Fellowships

  • University of California, San Francisco, CA, Fellow, Transplant Surgery, 2007-08

Postdoctoral Training

Board Certification

Program Affiliations

Clinical Expertise

  • Kidney Transplantation
  • Liver Transplantation
  • Pancreas Transplantation

 

Research Interests

  • Innate Immunity and Transplantation
  • High-risk Donors in Transplantation
  • Living Donor Liver Transplant

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Biography

Dr. Matthew Levine completed his medical degree and earned a Ph.D. in immunobiology from the   Yale University School of Medicine in 2001.   He then went on to complete a general surgery residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2006.   Dr. Levine received the Medical Scientist Training Program Fellowship through the National Institutes of Health for M.D./Ph.D. training in 1994.   As a graduate student, he studied the selection of B cells in transgenic murine systems in the Yale immunobiology laboratory with Dr. Charles Janeway, Jr.   Dr. Levine is currently serving as a clinical transplant fellow at UCSF.   In addition to his clinical service, he participates in the education of surgical house staff and medical students and is an active member of the transplant research laboratory.   Dr. Levine will complete his transplant fellowship with the Division of Transplantation at UCSF in January of 2009.

Selected Publications

1.   He X, Janeway CA, Levine M, Robinson E, Preston-Hurlburt P, Viret C, Bottomly K.   Dual receptor T cells extend the immune repertoire for foreign antigens.   Nat Immunol 3:127-34, 2002.

2.   Levine MH, Haberman AM, Sant' Angelo DB, Hannum LG, Cancro MP, Janeway CA, Shlomchik MJ.   A B-cell receptor-specific selection step governs immature to mature B cell differentialtion.   Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 97:2743-8, 2000.

3.   Levine MH, Haberman AM, Sant' Angelo DB, Hannum LG, Shlomchik MJ, Janeway CA.   Peripheral selection of BCR repertoire in heavy chain transgenic mice.   Scan J Immunol 50:C11, 1999.