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Dr. Marquis Hart is a transplant surgeon and researcher who specializes in abdominal transplantation. As a surgeon in the UCSD Abdominal Transplant Program and a member of the Liver/Kidney Transplant Team at Children’s Hospital and Health Center in San Diego, he performs kidney, pancreas, and liver transplants in adults and children. He is board certified in General Surgery.
Along with his UCSD colleague Dr. Ajai Khanna, Dr. Hart performed the world’s first “domino” liver transplantation in a patient with Maple Syrup Urine Disease and a patient with liver cancer in 2004. In “domino” liver transplantation, a patient donates his or her liver to another patient and then receives a donor liver. In certain medical situations, this “domino” procedure can make it possible to provide new livers to two individuals who would not otherwise be able to receive liver transplants. In this case, the MSUD patient could not use his own liver because of a unique metabolic problem, but he could use a healthy liver from a donor, and his liver would function normally in another person.
In his research at UCSD, Dr. Hart studies factors that influence the success of organ transplantation. His recent publications include a report of a study of drug treatment to reduce the risk of liver transplant rejection in laboratory animals.
For details of Dr. Hart’s experience, education and training, along with a list of his publications, please click on the Curriculum Vitae link under “Online Info” below.
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