Certifications
Transplant Hepatology
Gastroenterology
Clinical Focus
Education
MD, Universidad Del Noreste
Residency, Internal Medicine
Maimonides Medical CenterFellowship, Clinical Nutrition
Memorial Sloan-KetteringFellowship, Gastroenterology
Temple University HospitalFellowship, Liver Disease-Trans
Mount Sinai Hospital
Biography
Dr. Thomas D. Schiano has a clinical background in hepatology, gastroenterology and clinical nutrition. He has expertise in the management of patients with cirrhosis and other acute/chronic liver diseases, as well as caring for patients prior to and after liver and intestinal transplantation. Dr. Schiano has varied clinical research interests including herbal treatments of liver disease, nutritional aspects of liver disease, recurrence of disease post liver transplantation, living donor liver transplantation, and management of the complications of cirrhosis. In addition, he is member of the liver thrombosis program - an international referral center for adults and children with difficult to diagnose and unique blood clotting disorders affecting the liver and intestines.
Dr. Schiano is a professor of medicine, a UNOS-certified Liver Transplant physician, and is board certified in internal medicine, clinical nutrition, and gastroenterology.
Dr. Schiano is Medical Director of Adult Liver Transplantation and Director of Clinical Hepatology and Intestinal Transplantation at the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute.
RMTI website: www.mountsinaiRMTI.org
Awards
2012 -
2012 American Liver Foundation Physician of the Year
American Liver Foundation2008 - 2013
Castle-Connolly America's Top Doctors
2008 - 2013
Best Doctors
New York Magazine2008 - 2013
Super Doctors
NY Times Magazine2006 -
Manhattan Chapter Triangle Award
TRIO (Transplant Recipients International Organization)1995 -
Sol Sherry Award
Temple University Hospital1991 -
Award for Excellence
Maimonides Medical Center1990 -
Award for Excellence
Maimonides Medical Center1989 -
Award for Excellence
Maimonides Medical Center
Research
Research
Liver transplantation, living donor liver transplantation, herbal and drug hepatotoxicity, nutrition, cirrhosis, intestinal transplantation, recurrence of disease post-liver transplantation, treatment of viral hepatitis post-liver transplantation, herbal and alternative treatments of chronic liver disease, complications of cirrhosis, portal hypertension, cholestasis associated with TPN.Publications
Terrault NA, Roland ME, Schiano T, Dove L, Wong MT, Poordad F, Ragni MV, Barin B, Simon D, Olthoff KM, Johnson L, Stosor V, Jayaweera D, Fung J, Sherman KE, Subramanian A, Millis JM, Slakey D, Berg CL, Carlson L, Ferrell L, Stablein DM, Odim J, Fox L, Stock PG. Outcomes of liver transplant recipients with hepatitis C and human immunodeficiency virus coinfection. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2012 Jun; 18(6).
Fiel MI, Schiano TD. Plasma cell hepatitis (de-novo autoimmune hepatitis) developing post liver transplantation. Current opinion in organ transplantation 2012 Jun; 17(3).
Levitsky J, Fiel MI, Norvell JP, Wang E, Watt KD, Curry MP, Tewani S, McCashland TM, Hoteit MA, Shaked A, Saab S, Chi AC, Tien A, Schiano TD. Risk for immune-mediated graft dysfunction in liver transplant recipients with recurrent HCV infection treated with pegylated interferon. Gastroenterology 2012 May; 142(5).
Fiel MI, Deniz K, Elmali F, Schiano TD. Increasing hepatic arteriole wall thickness and decreased luminal diameter occur with increasing age in normal livers. Journal of hepatology 2011 Sep; 55(3).
Stanca CM, Montazem AH, Lawal A, Zhang JX, Schiano TD, Branch AD, Nelson C, Bodenheimer H, Thung S, Chung RT, Schwartz ME, Cheng B. Intranasal desmopressin versus blood transfusion in cirrhotic patients with coagulopathy undergoing dental extraction: a randomized controlled trial. Journal of oral and maxillofacial surgery : official journal of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons 2010 Jan; 68(1).
Fiel MI, Sauter B, Wu HS, Rodriguez-Laiz G, Gondolesi G, Iyer K, Schiano TD, Dagan S, Graham N, Williams PV, Tur-Kaspa R. Regression of hepatic fibrosis after intestinal transplantation in total parenteral nutrition liver disease. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association 2008 Aug; 6(8).
Schiano TD, Charlton M, Younossi Z, Galun E, Pruett T, Andrews J, Eren R, Dagan S, Graham N, Williams PV, Tur-Kaspa R. Monoclonal antibody HCV-AbxTL68 in patients undergoing liver transplantation for HCV: Results of a Phase 2 randomized study. Liver Transpl 2006; 12: 1381-1389.
Poonawala Khapra A, Agarwal K, Fiel MI, Schiano TD, Hossain S, Emre S, Kontorinis N. Impact of donor age on survival and fibrosis progression in patients with hepatitis C undergoing liver transplantation using hepatitis C+ allografts. Liver Transpl 2006; 12: 1496-1503.
Carmiel-Haggai M, Fiel MI, Gaddipati HC, Abittan C, Schiano TD, Roayaie S, Emre S, Gondolesi G, Schwartz M, Hossain S. Frequency of hepatitis C recurrence and factors affecting patient outcome after re-transplantation for recurrent hepatitis C. Liver Transpl 2005; 11: 1567-1573.
Schiano TD, Gutierrez JA, Walewski JL, Fiel MI, Fernandez EJ, Branch AD, Nelson C, Bodenheimer H, Thung S, Chung RT, Schwartz ME, Cheng B. HCV levels rise quickly in liver transplant patients with live donors, persistent ALT elevations often follow. Hepatology 2005; 42: 1420-1428.
Harpaz N, Schiano TD, Ruf AE, Sauter BV, Tao Y, Fishbein TM, Shukla D. Early and frequent histological re-currence of Crohn's disease in small intestinal allografts. Transplantation 2005; 80: 1667-1670.
Industry Relationships
Physicians and scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai often interact with pharmaceutical, device and biotechnology companies to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs. In order to promote an ethical and transparent environment for conducting research, providing clinical care and teaching, Mount Sinai requires that salaried faculty inform the School of their relationships with such companies.
Below are financial relationships with industry reported by Dr. Schiano during 2012 and/or 2013. Please note that this information may differ from information posted on corporate sites due to timing or classification differences.
Consulting:
- Biotest International; Bristol-Myers Squibb / sanofi-aventis Partnership; Novartis; Pfizer Inc.; Salix Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Scientific Advisory Board:
- Gilead Sciences, Inc.; Idenix Pharmaceuticals; Merck & Co., Inc.
Industry-Sponsored Lectures: MSSM faculty occasionally give lectures at events sponsored by industry, but only if the events are free of any marketing purpose.
- Novartis
Other Activities: Examples include, but are not limited to, committee participation, data safety monitoring board (DSMB) membership.
- Genentech, Inc.; Salix Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Mount Sinai's faculty policies relating to faculty collaboration with industry are posted on our website at http://icahn.mssm.edu/about-us/services-and-resources/faculty-resources/handbooks-and-policies/faculty-handbook. Patients may wish to ask their physician about the activities they perform for companies.
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