Dr. Jason A. Wertheim MD
Transplant Surgeon
10833 Le Conte Ave Los Angeles CA, 90095About
Dr. Jason Wertheim is a transplant surgeon practicing in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Wertheim specializes in organ transplants, and may perform surgeries involved with the transplant of organs such as the kidneys, liver, pancreas, intestines, heart, lungs, tracheal tissue and more. As a transplant surgeon, Dr. Wertheim performs long, complex surgeries that might take many hours to complete. Transplant surgeons remove the organ from the donor as well as transplant the organ in the recipient. Dr. Wertheim works with transplant physicians, nurses and surgical residents, and is responsible for and complications which may arise during or after surgery.
Education and Training
Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania 2002
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Bcr-abl-positive cells secrete angiogenic factors including matrix
- Cellular therapy and bioartificial approaches to liver replacement.
- Bioreactor design for perfusion-based, highly-vascularized organ regeneration.
- The regeneration of organogenesis.
- New strategies in kidney regeneration and tissue engineering.
- Donor kidney recovery methods and the incidence of lymphatic complications in kidney transplant recipients.
- Optimization and critical evaluation of decellularization strategies to develop renal extracellular matrix scaffolds as biological templates for organ engineering and transplantation.
- Clinical implications of basic science discoveries: induced pluripotent stem cell therapy in transplantation--a potential role for immunologic tolerance.
- A polymer-extracellular matrix composite with improved thromboresistance and recellularization properties.
- Initiation of puberty in mice following decellularized ovary transplant.
- Dual-Purpose Bioreactors to Monitor Noninvasive Physical and Biochemical Markers of Kidney and Liver Scaffold Recellularization.
- Investigating the Potential of Amnion-Based Scaffolds as a Barrier Membrane for Guided Bone Regeneration.
- New Tools in Experimental Cellular Therapy for the Treatment of Liver Diseases.
- Epithelial Cell Repopulation and Preparation of Rodent Extracellular Matrix Scaffolds for Renal Tissue Development.
- SIRT1 Overexpression Maintains Cell Phenotype and Function of Endothelial Cells Derived from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells.
Treatments
- Cell Biology, Cell Imaging, Kidney Problems And More
Fellowships
- University of California, Los Angeles, Transplantation 2011
- University of California-Los Angeles Medical Center
- Univ. of California-Los Angeles Medical Center 2011
Dr. Jason A. Wertheim MD's Practice location
Practice At 10833 Le Conte Ave
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Practice At 251 E Huron St Galter 3-150
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