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Sandy Feng, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Surgery
Director, Abdominal Transplant Fellowship Program
Contact Information
(415) 353-1551 Clinical, Kidney and Pancreas
(415) 353-8725 Academic
sandy.feng@ucsfmedctr.org
Education
- Harvard College, B.A., Chemistry, 1979-82
- Cambridge University, England, Ph.D., Molecular Biology, 1982-85
- Stanford University School of Medicine, M.D., 1985-90
Residencies
- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Intern, Surgery, 1990-91
- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Resident, Surgery, 1991-94
- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Chief Resident, Surgery, 1994-95
Fellowships
- University of California, San Francisco, Fellow, Transplant Surgery, 1996-98
Postdoctoral Training
- Stanford University School of Medicine, Postdoctoral Fellow, Molecular Biology, 1986-88
- The Whitehead Institute, MIT, Postdoctoral Fellow, Molecular Biology, 1995-96
Board Certification
American Board of Surgery, 1996
Program Affiliations
- Clinical Fellowship, Division of Transplantation
- The Liver Center at UCSF
- Director, Expanded Criteria Donor Kidney Transplant Program, University of California, San Francisco
- UCSF Hellen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Clinical Expertise
- Kidney Transplantation
- Liver Transplantation
- Pancreas Transplantation
- Expanded Criteria Donor Kidney Transplantation
- MELD Allocation and Living Donor Liver Transplantation
- Immunosuppression for Liver Transplantation
Research Interests
- Immunosuppression Withdrawal for Stable Pediatric Living Donor Liver Transplant Recipients
- Immunosuppression Withdrawal and Identification of a Profile Predictive of Tolerance
- Defining the Optimal Immunosuppression for Specific Transplant Settings
- Expanded Criteria Donors
- Novel Immunosuppression Strategies for Liver Transplantation
- Strategies to Decrease Ischemia Reperfusion Injury to Improve Early Graft Function after Kidney Transplantation
- Improving Long-term Outcomes for Liver Transplant Recipients
Biography
Dr. Sandy Feng performs liver, kidney and pancreas transplants and teaches surgical fellows, residents, and medical students. She has been an invited organizer or participant in several national consensus conferences addressing issues critical to the transplantation community.
Her research focuses on defining the potential for bone marrow derived cells to contribute to liver regeneration. She is the recipient of research grants from the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, the American College of Surgeons, and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons.
An Associate Professor of Surgery at UCSF, she is a graduate of Harvard College, where she received the prestigious Marshall Scholarship. She pursued graduate studies in molecular biology and received a doctorate from Cambridge University. Her medical training began at Stanford University School of Medicine followed by general surgery residency at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and transplant fellowship.
Research Summary
Dr. Feng's research interest focuses on transplant immunology, with a particular focus on determinants of organ tolerance. She is also investigating novel immunosuppressive regimens, and are also pursuing immunosuppression withdrawal in selected liver transplant recipients. By studying the immune profiles of transplant patients who are successfully weaned from immunosuppressants, she and her group hope to predict prospectively which patients may be good candidates for immunosuppression withdrawal.
Selected Publications
- McTaggart RA, Gottlieb D, Brooks J, Bacchetti P, Roberts JP, Tomlanovich S, Feng S. Sirolimus prolongs recovery from delayed graft function after cadaveric renal transplantation. Am J Transplant. 3: 416-23, Apr/2003.
- Fuller TF, Freise CE, Serkova N, Niemann CU, Olson JL, Feng S. Sirolimus delays recovery of rat kidney transplants after ischemia-reperfusion injury. Transplantation. 76: 1594-9, Dec/15/2003.
- Brennan TV, Freise CE, Fuller TF, Bostrom A, Tomlanovich SJ, Feng S. Early graft function after living donor kidney transplantation predicts rejection but not outcomes. Am J Transplant. 4: 971-9, Jun/2004.
- Feng S, Humar A, Pomfret E, Fishbein T, Gaber O. Surgical challenges in transplantation: the Fourth Annual American Society of Transplant Surgeons' State-of-the-Art Winter Symposium. Am J Transplant. 5: 428-35, Mar/2005.
- Feng S, Goodrich NP, Bragg-Gresham JL, Dykstra DM, Punch JD, DebRoy MA, Greenstein SM, Merion RM. Characteristics associated with liver graft failure: the concept of a donor risk index. Am J Transplant. 6: 783-90, Apr/2006.
In the News
New Website Launched for Abdominal Transplant Fellowship Program
Division of Transplant Surgery - Jul 01, 2009The Abdominal Transplant Fellowship Program, led by Dr. Sandy Feng, has launched a new, updated website, one that will serve as a portal for current as well as aspiring transplant fellows. The rich didactic environment of the program is highlighted against the backdrop of its storied history. The program's distinguished alumni also have a section on the site, which features a link to the current biographical sketch of each respective physician.
Dr. Sandy Feng Updates Progress in Immunosupression for Liver Transplantation
UCTelevision - Jan 19, 2009Dr. Sandy Feng, Associate Professor of Surgery and Director of the UCSF Abdominal Transplant Fellowship Program. presents an update on the progress in immunosupression for liver transplantation. Series: UCSF Transplant Update [1/2009] [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 15737].
