James V. Guarrera

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James V. Guarrera, M.D.

Specialties:
Transplant Surgery (General Surgery Board)

Interests:
Liver Transplantation
Renal and Pancreas Transplantation
Hepatobiliary Surgery
Liver/ Biliary/ Pancreatic Resections
Advanced GI Oncologic Surgery
Advanced Laparoscopic Solid Organ Surgery
General Surgery
Aetna, Inc.
America's Choice Provider Network (ACPN)
Cigna Healthcare
Clover Health Plans
Devon Health Services/ULLICO
Horizon BCBS Managed Care
Horizon NJ Health
Horizon NJ Total Care (HNJH)
Horizon PPO Network
Medicaid
Medicare
Private Healthcare Systems
Prime Health Services, Inc.
Qual Care HMO
Qual Care PPO
Emblem Health
UHC Comm / Oxford
United Healthcare Community Plan (formerly AmeriChoice of NJ, Inc.)
WellCare Health Plans
Magnacare
University Hospital, Newark
St. Barnabas Medical Center - Livingston
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital - New Brunswick
M.D., Mount Sinai School of Medicine (08/15/1994-04/29/1998)
Residency: Surgery, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA (07/01/1998-06/30/2004)
Residency: Surgery, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University Medical Center, Residency: Surgery, NY, USA (07/01/1998-06/30/2005)
Fellowship : Hepatobiliary Surgery, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA (07/01/2004-06/30/2006)
Liver Transplantation Renal and Pancreas Transplantation Hepatobiliary Surgery Liver/ Biliary/ Pancreatic Resections Advanced GI Oncologic Surgery Advanced Laparoscopic Solid Organ Surgery General Surgery
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Provider Biography
James V. Guarrera, MD, FACS is a Professor and Interim Chair of Surgery and Chief for the Division of Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery at Rutgers, New Jersey Medical School. He graduated from Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He completed his Residency in Surgery and Research Fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center in 2004 which was followed by fellowship training in Multi-Organ Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery also at Columbia. Dr. Guarrera is certified by the American Board Surgery and The American Society of Transplant Surgeons. Prior to coming to Rutgers, NJMS, Dr. Guarrera held key leadership positions as Surgical Director of Adult Liver Transplantation and Program Director of the Abdominal Transplant and Hepatobiliary Fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center. He is a prolific academic researcher an extensive contributor to the medical literature with over 100 scientific papers, reviews and book chapters and is on the editorial board of the journal Liver Transplantation. Dr. Guarrera is acknowledged as an international expert and pioneer in Ex-vivo Machine Preservation of donor organs. He is distinguished as the first to clinically preserve human livers using ex-vivo continuous machine perfusion. The techniques he developed paved the way for ex-vivo liver machine perfusion procedures now being implemented in clinical trials by other groups in North America, Europe, and Asia.