Research

A completed scholarly project is not a graduation requirement but the transplant hepatology fellow will be mentored to pursue meaningful scholarly activities as part of ongoing professional growth. The pursuit of scholarly activities will occur in the five months of fellowship not dedicated to inpatient service.  

Faculty will work in advance of the transplant hepatology fellow’s arrival as needed to facilitate IRB protocols and other pre-research activities to enable the timely start of data abstraction and research. Fellows will be mentored to pursue discrete, time-limited projects that can be completed during the one-year duration of fellowship.

Research product goals will be presentation of an abstract at a hepatology meeting and development of a first-authored manuscript submitted by the end of the transplant hepatology fellowship. Fellows will be encouraged and funded to attend the Starzl Network for Excellence in Pediatric Transplantation and the Society of Pediatric Liver Transplantation (SPLIT) annual meeting during the spring of their fellowship and encouraged to attend the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) Liver Meeting in the fall. Fellows will be encouraged to submit abstracts to SPLIT and AASLD at the conclusion of their fellowship.

Quarterly liver team research meetings will provide an additional opportunity for updates from the transplant hepatology fellow on their research and to present works in progress outside of their mentor meetings, as well as an opportunity for faculty to discuss ongoing projects on which the fellow can collaborate.

Gastroenterology division faculty scholarship

Gastroenterology fellows' scholarship

Contact for research inquiries:

Voytek Slowik, MD
Program Director
vslowik@cmh.edu

Halee Patel, MD
Associate Program Director
hpatel1@cmh.edu

Rachel Chevalier, MD
Director of Fellowship Research
rlchevalier@cmh.edu