AnnMarie Liapakis

About

As a hepatologist and transplant provider at NYU Langone, AnnMarie Liapakis is deeply committed to providing comprehensive and compassionate care to her patients. Her philosophy of care centers on treating the whole person, not just the specific liver disease, and she is passionate about dispelling myths and misinformation surrounding liver conditions. She specializes in managing a wide range of liver diseases, including advanced liver disease and liver transplantation, and has extensive experience in understanding how liver disease can affect other organ systems. Dr. Liapakis serves as the medical director of living donor liver transplantation at the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, where she works to maximize transplant opportunities and ensure the safety of living liver donors. Throughout her career, she has been actively involved in creating educational materials and advocating for policies that support patients with liver disease, working with organizations such as the American Liver Foundation and Donate Life Connecticut. Her dedication to patient education and advocacy has been recognized with honors such as the Physician of the Year award from the American Liver Foundation.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Surgery
• Medicine
• Public relations
• Engineering ethics

Selected publications

• Equitable Access to Liver Transplant: Bridging the Gaps in the Social Determinants of Health

  Hepatology · 2021-06-01 · 39 citations

  articleOpen access

  The COVID-19 pandemic and social justice movement have highlighted the impact of social determinants of health (SDOH) and structural racism in the United States on both access to care and patient outcomes. With the evaluation for liver transplantation being a highly subjective process, there are multiple ways for SDOH to place vulnerable patients at a disadvantage. This policy corner focuses on three different methods to reverse the deleterious effects of SDOH-identify and reduce implicit bias,…

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• Variation in adult living donor liver transplantation in the United States: Identifying opportunities for increased utilization

  Clinical Transplantation · 2023-02-03 · 25 citations

  articleOpen access

  In the United States, living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is limited to transplant centers with specific experience. However, the impact of recipient characteristics on procedure selection (LDLT vs. deceased donor liver transplant [DDLT]) within these centers has not been described. Transplant registry data for centers that performed ≥1 LDLT in 2002-2019 were analyzed using hierarchal regression modeling to quantify the impact of patient and center factors on the adjusted odds ratio (aOR)…

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• Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Within and Outside Traditional Selection Criteria

  Annals of Surgery · 2023-07-31 · 17 citations

  articleOpen access

  OBJECTIVE: To evaluate long-term oncologic outcomes of patients post-living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) within and outside standard transplantation selection criteria and the added value of the incorporation of the New York-California (NYCA) score. BACKGROUND: LDLT offers an opportunity to decrease the liver transplantation waitlist, reduce waitlist mortality, and expand selection criteria for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). METHODS: Primary adult LDLT recipients between Oct…

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• Psychosocial Evaluation of Living Kidney Donors: A Survey of Current Practices in the United States

  Transplantation · 2024-06-13 · 9 citations

  article

  BACKGROUND: Best practices in psychosocial evaluation and care of living donor candidates and donors are not well established. METHODS: We surveyed 195 living kidney donor (LKD) transplant centers in United States from October 2021 to April 2022 querying (1) composition of psychosocial teams, (2) evaluation processes including clinical tools and domains assessed, (3) selection criteria, and (4) psychosocial follow-up post-donation. RESULTS: We received 161 responses from 104 programs, representi…

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• Psychosocial evaluation of living liver donors—State of current practices in the United States

  Liver Transplantation · 2023-10-20 · 6 citations

  articleSenior author

  We surveyed living donor liver transplant programs in the United States to describe practices in the psychosocial evaluation of living donors focused on (1) composition of psychosocial team; (2) domains, workflow, and tools of the psychosocial assessment; (3) absolute and relative mental health-related contraindications to donation; and (4) postdonation psychosocial follow-up. We received 52 unique responses, representing 33 of 50 (66%) of active living donor liver transplant programs. Thirty-on…

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Frequent coauthors

• Raffi Karagozian

  Tufts University

  16 shared

• Michael Cho

  Harvard University

  16 shared

• Mena Bakhit

  16 shared

• Thomas R. McCarty

  16 shared

• Basile Njei

  Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center

  16 shared

• Sunhee Park

  16 shared

• Joseph K. Lim

  VA Connecticut Healthcare System

  15 shared

• Benjamin Samstein

  13 shared

Awards & honors

• Physician of the Year award from the American Liver Foundati…

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