Biography
He also serves as the division’s educational lead to general surgery residents, participates in enhancing the campus surgical education curriculum and was recently accepted in to the upcoming Teaching Scholars Program cohort. Dr. Syed was recently awarded the Faculty Teaching Award by UCSF’s PGY1 General Surgery Residents in recognition for the quality of his teaching and contributions to their education. In addition to his clinical and surgical responsibilities, his current research interests include studying renal allograft rejection, the preservation of donor livers and the intersection of global health and education vis-à-vis partnering with a Costa Rican transplant center.
He is a member of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, Royal College of Surgeons and The Transplantation Society.
Awards & Honors
Award | Conferred By | Date |
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Faculty Teaching Award | University of California, San Francisco | 2019 |
Lawrence W. Way Critical Thinking Award | University of California, San Francisco | 2016 |
The Louis E. Zeile Outstanding Resident in Surgery | Central Michigan University | 2014 |
Education
Institution | Degree | Dept or School | End Date |
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University of California | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training | 2019 | |
University of California, San Francisco | Abdominal Transplant Surgery | 2018 | |
University of California, San Francisco | General Surgery | 2016 | |
Central Michigan University | General Surgery | 2014 | |
Royal College of Surgeons | MRCS | Surgery | 2011 |
University of Bristol, National Health Service Trust | CardioThoracic Surgey | 2011 | |
University of Southampton, National Health Service Trust | Internal Medicine and General Surgery | 2010 | |
University of Leicester | MBChB | Medicine | 2008 |
Board Certifications
American Board of Surgery
Clinical Expertise
Bile Duct Cancer (Cholangiocarcinoma)
Bile Duct Injuries
Choledochal Cysts
Gallbladder Cancer
Hepatocellular Carcinoma (Primary Liver Cancer)
Kidney Transplantation
Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy
Liver Biopsy
Liver Cysts
Liver Metastases (Secondary Liver Cancer)
Liver Resection
Liver Transplantation
Living Donor Kidney Transplantation
Living Donor Liver Transplantation
Pancreas Transplantation
Pediatric Kidney Transplantation
Pediatric Liver Transplantation
In the News
Publications
- Examining the Influence of a General Surgery Resident's Transplant Experience on Their Pursuit of Transplant Surgery Fellowship.| | View in PubMed
- Diabetes Insipidus in Deceased Donors and Outcomes in Kidney Transplant Recipients.| | View in PubMed
- Development of the Cognitive Load Inventory for Surgical Skills: preliminary validity evidence.| | View in PubMed
- Is participation enough? Impact of simulation curriculum structure on performance of basic surgical skills.| | View in PubMed
- Confronting new challenges: Faculty perceptions of gaps in current laparoscopic curricula in a changing training landscape.| | View in PubMed
- DCD liver transplant in patients with a MELD over 35.| | View in PubMed
- Remediation for Technical Skills.| | View in PubMed
- Real-world implementation of normothermic machine perfusion: A detailed analysis of intraoperative and early postoperative impact.| | View in PubMed
- A Multi-Modal Approach to Islet and Pancreas Transplantation With Calcineurin-Sparing Immunosuppression Maintains Long-Term Insulin Independence in Patients With Type I Diabetes.| | View in PubMed
- Steroid Avoidance After Adult Living Donor Liver Transplant: A Cohort Analysis.| | View in PubMed
- Resected Tumor Outcome and Recurrence (RESTORE) Index for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Recurrence after Resection.| | View in PubMed
- Difficult or high risk? Objective task assessment vs. faculty perceptions of surgical skills.| | View in PubMed
- Faculty entrustment of residents in the operating room: the role for surgical simulation.| | View in PubMed
- Number of Local Regional Therapies for Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Peri-Operative Outcomes after Liver Transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Robotic training for medical students: feasibility of a pilot simulation curriculum.| | View in PubMed
- Communicating from a distance: medical student perspectives from a robotic bedside assist simulation.| | View in PubMed
- 214.1: Strategies to Achieve Long-term Insulin Independence Using a Multimodal Approach to Beta-cell Replacement in Patients With Type I Diabetes.| | View in PubMed
- 335.4: Use of Donation After Circulatory Death Donors for High Model for End-Stage Liver Disease Recipients.| | View in PubMed
- Assessment of Surgeon Performance of Advanced Open Surgical Skills Using a Microskills-Based Novel Curriculum.| | View in PubMed
- Nodular Regenerative Hyperplasia After Liver Transplant; It's All in the Presentation.| | View in PubMed
- Internal hernia involving the transplant ureter after simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplant - and the atypical management of a consequent transplant ureteral injury.| | View in PubMed
- Effects of Multi-stage Procurement on the Viability and Function of Human Donor Parathyroid Glands.| | View in PubMed
- Procurement of Deceased Donor Parathyroid Glands With the Aid of Near-infrared Autofluorescence Imaging.| | View in PubMed
- Impact of Portable Normothermic Blood-Based Machine Perfusion on Outcomes of Liver Transplant: The OCS Liver PROTECT Randomized Clinical Trial.| | View in PubMed
- Therapeutic Reasoning: A Conceptual Challenge for Medical Students' Surgical Clerkship.| | View in PubMed
- Machine learning to predict waitlist dropout among liver transplant candidates with hepatocellular carcinoma.| | View in PubMed
- Advantages and Limitations of Clinical Scores for Donation After Circulatory Death Liver Transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Advanced Open Surgical Skill Simulation: Practice, Performance Benchmarking, and Perceptions.| | View in PubMed
- Motivations and outcomes of compatible living donor-recipient pairs in paired exchange.| | View in PubMed
- Training Experiences of American Society of Transplant Surgeons Fellows in Deceased Donor Organ Procurement.| | View in PubMed
- Retransplantation After Living Donor Liver Transplantation: Data from the Adult to Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Study.| | View in PubMed
- Deceased Liver Donors.| | View in PubMed
- Understanding the Final Disposition of Livers Declined After the Start of Procurement: A Nationwide Organ Procurement Organization Effort.| | View in PubMed
- Setting rules for the sandbox: A response to "Successfully sharing the sandbox: A perspective on combined DCD liver and heart donor procurement".| | View in PubMed
- CON: Portal Vein Thrombosis Does Not Impact Liver Transplantation Outcomes.| | View in PubMed
- COVID-19 and Abdominal Transplant: A Stepwise Approach to Practice During Pandemic Conditions.| | View in PubMed
- How COVID-19 inspired surgical residents to rethink educational programs.| | View in PubMed
- PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHED RISK OF BILIARY COMPLICATIONS AFTER LIVER TRANSPLANT AND OUTCOME BY DONOR TYPE.| | View in PubMed
- A Virtual Crossmatch-based Strategy Facilitates Sharing of Deceased Donor Kidneys for Highly Sensitized Recipients.| | View in PubMed
- Long-term follow-up of beta cell replacement therapy in 10 HIV-infected patients with renal failure secondary to type 1 diabetes mellitus.| | View in PubMed
- Living Donor Liver Transplant for Alcoholic Liver Disease: Data from the Adult-to-adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Study.| | View in PubMed
- The Authors' Reply: Biliary Bicarbonate, pH, and Glucose Are Suitable Biomarkers of Biliary Viability During Ex Situ Normothermic Machine Perfusion of Human Donor Livers.| | View in PubMed
- The Impact of Deceased Donor Liver Extraction Time on Early Allograft Function in Adult Liver Transplant Recipients.| | View in PubMed
- Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Alcoholic Liver Disease.| | View in PubMed
- Retransplantation after Living Donor Liver Transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Outcomes of arterial bypass preceding resection of retroperitoneal masses involving major vessels.| | View in PubMed
- Intraoperative Management of Liver Transplant Patients Without the Routine Use of Renal Replacement Therapy.| | View in PubMed
- A benign gastric ulcer eroding into a splenic artery pseudoaneurysm presenting as a massive upper gastrointestinal bleed.| | View in PubMed
- Assessment of the financial implications for laparoscopic liver surgery: a single-centre UK cost analysis for minor and major hepatectomy.| | View in PubMed
- The relationship between nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and colorectal cancer: the future challenges and outcomes of the metabolic syndrome.| | View in PubMed
- Laparoscopic right hepatectomy: a challenging, but feasible, safe and efficient procedure.| | View in PubMed