Sandy Feng, MD, PhD

Professor of Surgery
Department of Medicine
+1 415 353-8725

Dr. Sandy Feng is a transplant surgeon who performs liver, kidney and pancreas transplants.

In her research, Feng studies transplantation tolerance, a transplant recipient's ability to maintain normal organ function with minimal or no use of immunosuppressive drugs. With funding from the National Institutes of Health, she has led several multicenter clinical trials to study tolerance in both adult and pediatric liver transplant recipients.

Feng is a graduate of Harvard College, where she received the prestigious Marshall Scholarship. She completed a doctorate in molecular biology at the University of Cambridge and earned her medical degree at Stanford University School of Medicine. She completed a general surgery residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital, followed by a transplant fellowship at UCSF.

Feng has held leadership positions in prominent professional societies and with the United Network for Organ Sharing. She has organized several national conferences addressing issues critical to the transplantation community, serves on the editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine and is the editor-in-chief for the American Journal of Transplantation.

Dr. Feng was elected to be a member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2023.

Publications

Donor-specific Immune Senescence as a Candidate Biomarker of Operational Tolerance Following Liver Transplantation in Adults: Results of a Prospective, Multicenter Cohort Study.

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons

Tanimine N, Markmann JF, Wood-Trageser MA, Demetris AJ, Mason K, Silva JAF, Levitsky J, Feng S, Humar A, Emond JC, Shaked A, Klintmalm G, Sanchez-Fueyo A, Lesniak D, Breeden CP, Nepom GT, Bridges ND, Goldstein J, Larsen CP, DesMarais M, Gaile G, Chandran S

Banff 2022 liver group meeting report: monitoring long term allograft health.

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons

Bellamy COC, O'Leary JG, Adeyi O, Baddour N, Batal I, Bucuvalas J, Del Bello A, El Hag M, El-Monayeri M, Farris AB, Feng S, Fiel MI, Fischer SE, Fung J, Grzyb K, Guimei M, Haga H, Hart J, Jackson AM, Jaeckel E, Khurram NA, Knechtle SJ, Lesniak D, Levitsky J, McCaughan G, McKenzie C, Mescoli C, Miquel R, Minervini MI, Nasser IA, Neil D, O'Neil MF, Pappo O, Randhawa P, Ruiz P, Fueyo AS, Schady D, Schiano T, Sebagh M, Smith M, Stevenson HL, Taner T, Taubert R, Thung S, Trunecka P, Wang HL, Wood-Trageser M, Yilmaz F, Zen Y, Zeevi A, Demetris AJ

Advancing Mouse Models for Transplantation Research.

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons

Cravedi P, Riella LV, Ford M, Valujskikh A, Menon MC, Kirk AD, Alegre ML, Feng S, Kehn P, Najafian N, Hancock W, Heeger PS, Maltzman J, Mannon RB, Nadig S, Odim J, Turnquist H, Shaw J, West L, Luo X, Chong A, Bromberg J, AST COTS MOuse MOdels in Transplantation (MOMOT) work group

Transforming the Future of Surgeon-Scientists.

Annals of surgery

Ladner DP, Goldstein AM, Billiar TR, Cameron AM, Carpizo DR, Chu DI, Coopersmith CM, DeMatteo RP, Feng SH, Gallagher KA, Gillanders WE, Lal BK, Lipshutz GS, Liu A, Maier RV, Mittendorf EA, Morris AM, Sicklick JK, Velazquez OC, Whitson BA, Wilke LG, Yoon SS, Zeiger MA, Farmer DL, Hwang ES, ASA Task Force for Research Sustainability

Addressing sex-based disparities in solid organ transplantation in the United States - a conference report.

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons

Sawinski D, Lai JC, Pinney S, Gray AL, Jackson AM, Stewart D, Levine DJ, Locke JE, Pomposelli JJ, Hartwig MG, Hall SA, Dadhania DM, Cogswell R, Perez RV, Schold JD, Turgeon NA, Kobashigawa J, Kukreja J, Magee JC, Friedewald J, Gill JS, Loor G, Heimbach JK, Verna EC, Walsh MN, Terrault N, Testa G, Diamond JM, Reese PP, Brown K, Orloff S, Farr MA, Olthoff KM, Siegler M, Ascher N, Feng S, Kaplan B, Pomfret E

The molecular phenotypes of injury, steatohepatitis, and fibrosis in liver transplant biopsies in the INTERLIVER study.

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons

Madill-Thomsen KS, Abouljoud M, Bhati C, Ciszek M, Durlik M, Feng S, Foroncewicz B, Francis I, Grat M, Jurczyk K, Klintmalm G, Krasnodebski M, McCaughan G, Miquel R, Montano-Loza A, Moonka D, Mucha K, Myslak M, Paczek L, Perkowska-Ptasinska A, Piecha G, Reichman T, Sanchez-Fueyo A, Tronina O, Wawrzynowicz-Syczewska M, Wiecek A, Zieniewicz K, Halloran PF

The molecular diagnosis of rejection in liver transplant biopsies: First results of the INTERLIVER study.

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons

Madill-Thomsen K, Abouljoud M, Bhati C, Ciszek M, Durlik M, Feng S, Foroncewicz B, Francis I, Grat M, Jurczyk K, Klintmalm G, Krasnodebski M, McCaughan G, Miquel R, Montano-Loza A, Moonka D, Mucha K, Myslak M, Paczek L, Perkowska-Ptasinska A, Piecha G, Reichman T, Sanchez-Fueyo A, Tronina O, Wawrzynowicz-Syczewska M, Wiecek A, Zieniewicz K, Halloran PF

Reply.

Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society

Feng S, Bucuvalas J

Sensitization in Transplantation: Assessment of Risk (STAR) 2017 Working Group Meeting Report.

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons

Tambur AR, Campbell P, Claas FH, Feng S, Gebel HM, Jackson AM, Mannon RB, Reed EF, Tinckam K, Askar M, Chandraker A, Chang PP, Colvin M, Demetris AJ, Diamond JM, Dipchand AI, Fairchild RL, Ford ML, Friedewald J, Gill RG, Glotz D, Goldberg H, Hachem R, Knechtle S, Kobashigawa J, Levine DJ, Levitsky J, Mengel M, Milford E, Newell KA, O'Leary JG, Palmer S, Randhawa P, Smith J, Snyder L, Starling RC, Sweet S, Taner T, Taylor CJ, Woodle S, Zeevi A, Nickerson P

Reply.

Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.)

Lai JC, Covinsky KE, Dodge JL, Boscardin WJ, Segev DL, Roberts JP, Feng S

Physical frailty after liver transplantation.

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons

Lai JC, Segev DL, McCulloch CE, Covinsky KE, Dodge JL, Feng S

Early and Late Factors Impacting Patient and Graft Outcome in Pediatric Liver Transplantation: Summary of an ESPGHAN Monothematic Conference.

Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition

McLin VA, Allen U, Boyer O, Bucuvalas J, Colledan M, Cuturi MC, d'Antiga L, Debray D, Dezsofi A, Goyet JV, Dhawan A, Durmaz O, Falk C, Feng S, Fischler B, Franchi-Abella S, Frauca E, Ganschow R, Gottschalk S, Hadzic N, Hierro L, Horslen S, Hubscher S, Karam V, Kelly D, Maecker-Kolhoff B, Mazariegos G, McKiernan P, Melk A, Nobili V, Ozgenç F, Reding R, Sciveres M, Sharif K, Socha P, Toso C, Vajro P, Verma A, Wildhaber BE, Baumann U

Report of the first international liver transplantation society expert panel consensus conference on renal insufficiency in liver transplantation.

Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society

Charlton MR, Wall WJ, Ojo AO, Ginès P, Textor S, Shihab FS, Marotta P, Cantarovich M, Eason JD, Wiesner RH, Ramsay MA, Garcia-Valdecasas JC, Neuberger JM, Feng S, Davis CL, Gonwa TA, International Liver Transplantation Society Expert Panel