Specialty
Clinical Focus
Education
MD, Universidad De Buenos Aires
Residency, Surgery
University of Buenos AiresFellowship, Transplant Surgery
Westchester Medical CenterFellowship, Transplant Surgery
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Biography
Dr. Rocca is the Surgical Director of the Mount Sinai Living Donor Kidney Program, an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, and the Associate Director of the Abdominal Transplant Surgery Fellowship Training Program at the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute.
Dr. Juan Rocca completed his medical degree with honors at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina. He received his surgical training at the British Hospital of Buenos Aires/University of Buenos Aires and became board certified in General Surgery and Laparoscopic Surgery.
He came to the US, in 2005, to complete a Research and Clinical Fellowship in Transplant Surgery at Westchester Medical Center in New York, achieving certification by the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. He subsequently spent time at Northwestern University in Chicago, where he developed skills in cutting-edge laparoscopic techniques for liver surgery and kidney donation, in addition to pancreas transplantation and pediatric transplantation.
As a transplant surgeon at the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute, Dr. Rocca performs transplant procedures of the liver, kidney, and pancreas in both the adult and pediatric populations, as well as laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy and other non-transplant procedures associated with liver and kidney diseases.
Dr. Rocca's current research activities include: deceased donor selection and clinical outcomes in liver transplantation; and the development of minimally invasive kidney transplantation using.
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Awards
2009 -
Excellence in Teaching
Northwestern University
Publications
Nagai S, Facciuto M, Mori S, Ninomiya M, Rocca JP, Contreras-Saldivar A, Schwartz ME, Florman SS. Recurrence prediction of hepatocellular carcinoma after liver transplantation by ischemia time and tumor characteristics. Journal of hepatology 2013 Feb;.
Demaria Jr S, Nürnberg J, Lin HM, Contreras-Saldivar AG, Levin M, Flax K, Groth D, Vullo J, Rocca J, Florman S, Reich DL. Association of intraoperative blood pressure instability with adverse outcomes after liver transplantation. Minerva anestesiologica 2013 Mar;.
Chen W, Facciuto ME, Rocca JP, Marvin MR, Sheiner PA, Rachlin S, Rodriguez MI. Doppler ultrasonographic findings on hepatic arterial vasospasm early after liver transplantation. Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine 2006 May; 25(5).
Facciuto M, Contreras-Saldivar A, Singh MK, Rocca JP, Taouli B, Oyfe I, Rudow DL, Gondolesi GE, Schiano TD, Kim-Schluger L, Schwartz ME, Miller CM, Florman S. Right hepatectomy for living donation: Role of remnant liver volume in predicting hepatic dysfunction and complications. Surgery 2013 May; 153(5).
Facciuto ME, Rodriguez-Davalos MI, Singh MK, Rocca JP, Rochon C, Chen W, Katta US, Sheiner PA. Recanalized umbilical vein conduit for meso-Rex bypass in extrahepatic portal vein obstruction. Surgery 2009 Apr; 145(4).
Tomaino J, Keegan T, Miloh T, Kerkar N, Mercer S, Birge M, Rocca J, Suchy F, Arnon R. Stevens-Johnson syndrome after Mycoplasma pneumonia infection in pediatric post-liver transplant recipient: case report and review of the literature. Pediatric transplantation 2012 May; 16(3).
Facciuto ME, Singh MK, Rocca JP, Rochon C, Rodriguez Davalos MI, Eshghi M, Schwalb DM, Choudhury M, Sheiner PA. Benefits of liver transplantation surgical techniques in the management of extensive retroperitoneal tumors. World journal of surgery 2008 Nov; 32(11).
Facciuto ME, Koneru B, Rocca JP, Wolf DC, Kim-Schluger L, Visintainer P, Klein KM, Chun H, Marvin M, Rozenblit G, Rodriguez-Davalos M, Sheiner PA. Surgical treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma beyond Milan criteria. Results of liver resection, salvage transplantation, and primary liver transplantation. Annals of surgical oncology 2008 May; 15(5).
Rocca JP, Davis E, Edye M. Live-donor nephrectomy. The Mount Sinai journal of medicine, New York; 79(3).
Facciuto ME, Rodriguez-Davalos MI, Nagarajan S, Singh MK, Rocca JP, Sheiner PA. Preservation of recipient middle hepatic vein for drainage of anterior sector veins in adult-to-adult living-donor liver transplantation. Transplantation proceedings 2009 Jun; 41(5).
Rocca JP, Rodriguez-Davalos MI, Burke-Davis M, Marvin MR, Sheiner PA, Facciuto ME. Living-donor hepatectomy in right-sided round-ligament liver: importance of mapping the anatomy to the left medial segment. Journal of hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgery 2006; 13(5).
Nagai S, Facciuto M, Mori S, Ninomiya M, Rocca JP, Contreras-Saldivar A, Schwartz ME, Florman SS. Recurrence prediction of hepatocellular carcinoma after liver transplantation by ischemia time and tumor characteristics. Journal of hepatology 2013 Feb;.
Industry Relationships
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Dr. Rocca did not report having any of the following types of financial relationships with industry during 2012 and/or 2013: consulting, scientific advisory board, industry-sponsored lectures, service on Board of Directors, participation on industry-sponsored committees, equity ownership valued at greater than 5% of a publicly traded company or any value in a privately held company. Please note that this information may differ from information posted on corporate sites due to timing or classification differences.
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