Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao
· Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)Yale University · Gastroenterology
Active 1985–2019
About
Dr. Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao is a Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine, specializing in Digestive Diseases. She is a past Chief of Digestive Diseases at the VA-Connecticut Healthcare System and serves as an Associate Editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. Her medical degree was obtained from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and she completed her internal medicine residency and gastroenterology fellowship at the Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición in Mexico City. She further trained in Hepatology at Yale University and has been a faculty member there since 1989. Her research primarily focuses on patient-oriented studies related to the complications of cirrhosis, including portal hypertension, varices, variceal hemorrhage, ascites, and spontaneous bacterial peritonitis. She has authored or co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed papers, chapters, reviews, and society guidelines. Dr. Garcia-Tsao is also a co-editor of several significant texts in the field, such as a book on Vascular Disorders of the Liver, Textbook of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and Sherlock’s Liver Diseases. Her ability to clarify complex concepts and her enthusiasm for liver disease research have made her a respected mentor and lecturer. She has received numerous honors, including the International Recognition Award from the European Association for the Study of Liver Disease and the Clinician Educator and Mentor Achievement Award from the AASLD.
Research topics
- Medicine
- Internal medicine
- Gastroenterology
- Intensive care medicine
- Cardiology
Recent grants
NIH · $10.9M · 1997–2027
Frequent coauthors
- 17 shared
R. J. Groszmann
- 16 shared
M. Zalwin
VA Connecticut Healthcare System
- 16 shared
J. Ayala
- 16 shared
J. Bosch
Erasmus MC - Sophia Children’s Hospital
- 16 shared
C. Taylor
University of Washington
- 10 shared
Leroy R. Thacker
- 10 shared
Benedict Maliakkal
- 10 shared
Scott W. Biggins
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Labs
Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao LabPI
Awards & honors
- Wensel-Sherbaniuk Lectureship for the University of Alberta…
- Leon Schiff State-of-the-Art Lecture for the AASLD (2015)
- Gerald Klatskin Lectureship for Yale University
- Resnick Visiting Professorship (Harvard – Beth Israel Deacon…
- David Alpers Visiting Professorship for Washington Universit…
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