Publications:71
About Me
Dr. Gene Y Im is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Liver Diseases at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He earned his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, graduating with honors. He completed his Internal Medicine residency and fellowship in Gastroenterology at Winthrop-University Hospital, the primary teaching affiliate for the SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine. He then completed an advanced fellowship in Transplant Hepatology at the Mount Sinai Medical Center. He is currently the Associate Program Director of the Transplant Hepatology fellowship and RSS course director of the Division of Liver Diseases at Mount Sinai.
Dr. Im’s areas of clinical interest include cirrhosis, acute/chronic liver diseases, portal hypertension, liver biopsy, quality improvement, endoscopy, inpatient care of liver patients and liver transplantation.
His research program focuses on alcoholic hepatitis and liver disease, including early liver transplantation for alcoholic hepatitis, portal hypertension, liver biopsy and outcomes-based research.
Dr. Im is an UNOS-certified Liver Transplant physician and is board certified in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology and Transplant Hepatology. He is also a member of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.
Language
English
Position
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | Medicine, Liver Diseases
Hospital Affiliations
- Mount Sinai Queens
- The Mount Sinai Hospital
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Research
Early liver transplantation for severe alcoholic hepatitis has recently been demonstrated to be a feasible and effective therapy for highly selected patients who fail medical therapy and violate the so-called “6 month rule,” using a rigorous evaluation program. Here at Mount Sinai, we are leading the North American experience of early liver transplantation as a rescue therapy for selected patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis. Particular areas of interest include patient selection, outcomes, burden on organ supply and alcohol relapse. Translational collaborations are being planned with the Alcoholic Liver Disease Research Center at Mount Sinai to further elucidate the pathogenesis of alcoholic hepatitis. Future clinical trials to evaluate therapies with less side-effects, more targeted therapies or those aimed hepatic regeneration are needed.
Publications
Selected Publications
- Transient Elastography Increases Readiness for Change in Inpatients With Alcohol Use Disorder: The ELISA Pilot Study. Stephanie M Rutledge, Rohit R Nathani, Patricia Miguez Arosemena, Daniel Suter, David Lehman, Timothy Brennan, Gene Y Im. Addiction Biology
- Metabolic and Alcohol-associated Liver Disease and its Place in the Spectrum of Steatotic Liver Disease. Stephanie M. Rutledge, Gene Y. Im. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology
- The HDL criterion for MetALD can misclassify patients with cirrhosis. Gene Y. Im, Ashish Bibireddy, Smruti Rath. Journal of Hepatology
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