Education

• MD, Cornell University Medical College, 1997
• Surgery Residency, University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, IL, 1997-2005
• Research Fellowship, Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
• Transplantation Fellowship, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI, 2005-2007

Clinical Specialties

Dr. Mezrich is certified by the American Board of Surgery. He specializes in solid organ transplant (liver, kidney, and pancreas).

Dr. Mezrich provides a wide range of services including Kidney Transplant, Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy, Liver Resection, Liver Transplant, and Wedge Resection of the Liver.

Research Interests

Dr. Mezrich’s research interest is in transplant tolerance.

Funding/Grants

• Mechanisms behind Thymic Involution and Immunosuppression after exposure to Dioxin
  Funding Agency: Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
  Principal Investigator(s): Joshua D Mezrich, MD
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Recent Publications

• Pretransplant immune regulation predicts allograft outcome: bidirectional regulation correlates with excellent renal transplant function in living-related donor-recipient pairs.
  Jankowska-Gan E, Sheka A, Sollinger HW, Pirsch JD, Hofmann RM, Haynes LD, Armbrust MJ, Mezrich JD, Burlingham WJ
  Transplantation 2012 Feb 15; 93(3):283-90.
  [PubMed ID: 22186938]
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• Long-Term Pancreatic Allograft Survival After Renal Retransplantation in Prior Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Recipients.
  Lamattina J, Sollinger H, Becker Y, Mezrich J, Pirsch J, Odorico J
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2012 Jan 10.
  [PubMed ID: 22233437]
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• Simultaneous pancreas and kidney (SPK) retransplantation in prior SPK recipients.
  Lamattina JC, Sollinger HW, Becker YT, Mezrich JD, Pirsch JD, Odorico JS
  Clin Transplant 2011 Oct 28.
  [PubMed ID: 22032238]
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• Donation after cardiac death: a 29-year experience.
  Bellingham JM, Santhanakrishnan C, Neidlinger N, Wai P, Kim J, Niederhaus S, Leverson GE, Fernandez LA, Foley DP, Mezrich JD, Odorico JS, Love RB, De Oliveira N, Sollinger HW, D'Alessandro AM
  Surgery 2011 Oct; 150(4):692-702.
  [PubMed ID: 22000181]
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• Chronic kidney disease stage progression in liver transplant recipients.
  Lamattina JC, Foley DP, Mezrich JD, Fernandez LA, Vidyasagar V, D'Alessandro AM, Musat AI, Samaniego-Picota MD, Pascual J, Alejandro MD, Leverson GE, Pirsch JD, Djamali A
  Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2011 Aug; 6(8):1851-7.
  [PubMed ID: 21784823]
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