Nancy L. Ascher, M.D.
Professor and Chair of Surgery
Chief of Transplantation
Director of Tertiary Care
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California
Education
M.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1974
Residency
General Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1981
Fellowship
Transplant Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1982
Board Certifications
American Board of General Surgery
Hospital Affiliations/Admitting Privileges
University of California, San Francisco
Dr. Ascher’s surgical career is devoted to clinical transplantation and transplantation research. Her research interests are in hepatocyte immunogenecity, mechanisms of allograft rejection and clinical transplantation.
Following her postgraduate training in 1982, Dr. Ascher joined the faculty of the department of surgery at the University of Minnesota and was named the Clinical Director of the Liver Transplant Program. Her clinical responsibilities included liver and renal transplant, and general and vascular surgery. She joined the department of surgery at the University of California, San Francisco in 1988 to develop a liver transplantation program.
Dr. Ascher served on the Presidential Task Force on Organ Transplantation and the Surgeon General’s Task Force on Increasing Donor Organs. She currently is the Chair of the Secretary of Health & Human Services Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation and also a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons with additional memberships in numerous other medical societies.
