Hyung Leona Kim-Schluger, MD Email Hyung Leona Kim-Schluger
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- Position
- PROFESSOR | Medicine, Liver Diseases
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- Specialties
- Liver Medicine
- Internal Medicine
- Liver Transplantation
- Gastroenterology
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- Language
- English
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- Hospital Affiliation
- The Mount Sinai Hospital
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- Phone
- RMTI - Liver Diseases Practice 212-241-8035212-241-8035
- RMTI - Liver Transplantation Practice 212-241-8035212-241-8035
Dr. Kim-Schluger is the Associate Director of The Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute and was named the Sydney J. Zweig Professor of Medicine.
Dr. Kim -Schluger's expertise is the management of liver transplant recipients, as well as on the natural course and treatment of hepatitis C. Among her research efforts have been studies that named to identify different treatment options for patients with hepatitis C virus infection; to better understand the course of hepatitis C after liver transplantation and to determine the best immunosuppressive drug regimens for liver transplant recipients.
Dr. Kim-Schluger also has a special interest in the controversial issues and ethical dilemmas of organ allocation.
In the News
Dr. Kim-Schluger discusses hepatitis C in The Daily News feature The Daily Check Up.
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Dr. Kim-Schluger recipient of endowed Professorship: Read Here
Visit the RMTI website: https://www.mountsinai.org/locations/recanati-miller-transplant
Certifications
Transplant Hepatology
Gastroenterology
Clinical Focus
- Cirrhosis
- Esophageal Varices
- HIV Coinfection In Viral Hepatitis
- Hemochromatosis
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Liver Biopsy
- Liver Transplant
- Toxic Hepatitis
- Upper GI Endoscopy
- Wilson's Disease
Education
BA, Barnard College
MD, Columbia Univ. Col. of Phy. & Surg.
MD, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
, Beth Israel Hospital
, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
, Mount Sinai Medical Center
Internship, Internal Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center- Harvard Medical School
Residency, Internal Medicine
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
Fellowship, Gastroenterology
Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
Fellowship, Hepatology
Mount Sinai Hospital
Language
English
2013
Physician of the Year
MSH Nursing Department
Mount Sinai nurses voted Dr. Kim as MD of the year
1988
The Harry S. Altman Prize in Pediatrics
1988
Alpha Omega Alpha
1983
Phi Beta Kappa
1980
The Governor's Scholarship for Academic Excellence
1979
The Governor's Scholarship for Academic Excellence
Kim-schluger H, Rotterdam H, Lebwohl O. Gastrointestinal hemorrhage from a Brunner's gland hamartoma. Am J Gastroenterology 1995; 21(2): 584-588.
Martins PN, Kim-Schluger L, Rodriguez-Davalos M, Martins AB, Krachkova N, Facciuto M, Sheiner P. Massive pulmonary and intracardiac embolism during liver transplantation. Experimental and clinical transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation 2010 Jun; 8(2).
Madison G, Kim-Schluger L, Braverman S, Nicholson WL, Wormser GP. Hepatitis in association with rickettsialpox. Vector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.) 2008; 8(1).
Gurkan A, Emre S, Foshbein TM, Brady L, Millis M, Birnbaum A, Kim-schluger H, Sheiner PA. Unsuspected bile duct paucity in donors for living-related liver transplantation: two case reports. Transplantation 1999; 67: 416-418.
Guy SR, Magliocca JF, McDonough P, Emre S, Kim-schluger H, Sheiner PA, Fishbein TM, Schwartz ME, Miller CM. . Transmission of factor VII deficiency through liver transplantation. Transplant Int 1999; 12: 278-280.
Emre S, Schwartz ME, Shneider B, Hojsak J, Kim-schluger H, Fishbein TM, Guy SR, Sheiner PA, LeLeiko NS, Birnbaum A, Suchy FJ, Miller CM. Living related liver transplantation for acute liver failure in children. Transpl Surg 1999;: 161-165.
Martins PN, Kim-Schluger L, Rodriguez-Davalos M, Martins AB, Krachkova N, Facciuto M, Sheiner P. Massive pulmonary and intracardiac embolism during liver transplantation. Experimental and clinical transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation 2010 Jun; 8(2).
Kim-schluger H, Emre S, Guy SR, Sheiner PA, Fishbein TM, Schwartz ME, Miller CM. Safe transplantation of blood type A2 livers to blood type O recipients. Transplantation 1999; 67: 1071-1073.
Sheiner PA, Magliocca JF, Bodian CA, Kim-schluger H, Altaca G, Guarrera JV, Emre S, Fishbein T, Guy SR, Schwartz ME, Miller CM. Long-term medical complications in patients surviving [greater than or equal to] 5 years after liver transplant. Transplantation 2000; 69: 781-789.
Sheiner PA, Magliocca JF, Bodian CA, Kim-schluger H, Altaca G, Guarrera JV, Emre S, Fishbein TM, Guy SR, Schwartz ME, Miller CM. . Long-term medical complications in patients surviving 5 years after liver transplant. Transplantation 2000; 69: 781-789.
Emre S, Genyk Y, Kim-schluger H, Fishbein T, Guy SR, Sheiner P, Schwartz ME, Miller CM. Treatment of tacrolimus related adverse effects by conversion to cyclosporine in \tliver transplant recipients. Transplant International 2000;.
Brodsky N, Jaffe DL, Kim-Schluger L, Bodenheimer HC, Bach N. Decompensated Liver Disease associated with Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia.;.
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