John R. Lake, MD, is Professor of Surgery and Medicine and Director of the Division of Gastroenterology and the Liver Transplant Program at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. He is also Executive Medical Director for Solid Organ Transplantation at the University of Minnesota Medical Center. Dr Lake received his medical degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School and completed his residency and fellowship training at the University of California, San Francisco. Prior to moving to the University of Minnesota in 1998, he was Medical Director of the Liver Transplant Program at the University of California, San Francisco.
Dr Lake’s research interests include posttransplant hepatitis C, predictors of outcomes following liver transplantation, and the development of new immunosuppressive agents. He has authored more than 170 articles and 20 reviews in peer-reviewed journals and more than 25 book chapters. Currently Deputy Editor for the American Journal of Transplantation, he serves on the editorial boards for several other scientific journals, including Nature, Clinical Practice: Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Transplantation, Hepatology, Liver Transplantation, and Transplantation Proceedings.
In addition, Dr Lake is an active member of many university, community, and national committees, including the Liver and Intestinal and Membership and Professional Standards Committees of the United Network for Organ Sharing and the American Board of Internal Medicine Test and Policy Committee on Transplant Hepatology. He is also a member of several professional societies, including the International Liver Transplantation Society, the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, and the American Society of Transplantation, for whom he served as president.
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