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Ingo Klein, MD
Clinical Instructor of Surgery
Contact Information
(415) 353-1551 Clinical, Kidney and Pancreas
(415) 353-8725 Academic
ingo.klein@ucsfmedctr.org
Education
Medical School University of Würzburg, Germany (6-year program), magna cum laude, M.D., 5/1993 - 11/1999
Residencies
Surgical Resident, 12/1999-4/2003, 1/2006-11/2007
University Hospital Würzburg, Germany (192 surgical beds,
1500-bed facility)
Department of Surgery (Med. Director: Prof. Dr. med. A. Thiede)
Fellowships
Fellow Visceral
Surgery
12/07-12/08
University Hospital Würzburg, Germany (192 surgical beds,
1500-bed facility)
Department of Surgery (Med. Director: Prof. A. Thiede / Prof. C.T.
Germer)
Fellow Abdominal Transplantation
Surgery
01/09-12/10
University of San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA,
USA
Department of Surgery (Med. Director: Prof. N. Ascher, M.D.,
PhD)
Postdoctoral Training
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, 4/2003 - 12/2005 University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology (Laboratory of Prof. Ian Nicholas Crispe)
Biography
Dr. Ingo Klein earned his medical degree at the Julius Maximilians University of Wuerzburg in Germany in 1999, where he completed his doctoral dissertation in 2000 under the guidance of Dr. Jochen Gassel investigating targeted therapies for immunosuppression following organ transplantation. He then went on to complete a general surgery residency between 1999 and 2007 at the University Hospital Wuerzburg. Funded by a Research Fellowship Grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG), Dr. Klein worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in the laboratory of Nicholas Crispe in Rochester, NY from 2003 to 2005. His research on antigen presentation and T cell activation in transplanted livers has earned him the Johann Nepomuk von Nussbaum Award for Excellence in Science from the Bavarian Society of Surgeons, selection into the Academy of Excellence of the German Association of Visceral Surgery, and several awards from the German Association for the Study of the Liver (GASL) as well as participation as a young scientist in the 57th Meeting of Nobel Laureates with young scientists in Lindau, Germany in 2007. His 2009 Habilitation thesis is based on this work. Dr. Klein will complete his transplant fellowship with the Division of Transplantation at UCSF in December 2010.
Selected Publications
- Gassel HJ, Otto C, Klein I, Meyer D, Timmermann W, Steger U et al. Analysis of cellular events in hepatic allografts: donor progenitors induce intragraft chimerism. Transpl Int 2000; 13 Suppl 1(2):S465-S470.
- Gassel HJ, Otto C, Klein I, Steger U, Meyer D, Gassel AM et al. Persistence of stable intragraft cell chimerism in rat liver allografts after drug-induced tolerance. Transplantation 2001; 71(12):1848-1852.
- Klein I, Otto C, Steger U, Gassel AM, Meyer D, Ulrichs K et al. [Modulation of intrahepatic leukocyte populations by conventional and selective Immunosuppression]. Tx Med 2001; 13:112-121.
- Steger U, Klein I, Otto C, Meyer D, Timmermann W, Ulrichs K et al. Cellular basis of long-term rat liver allograft acceptance: role of donor and recipient leukocyte persistence in rat liver grafts. Transplant Proc 2001; 33(1-2):185-186.
- Gassel HJ, Klein I, Gassel AM, Marx A, Kenn W, Scheuerlen M et al. [Primary glomangioma of the liver. A new differential benign liver tumor diagnosis]. Der Chirurg 2002; 73: 279-282.
