JulieKHeimbachMD

Summary

• I am a transplant surgeon and Director of the Mayo Clinic Transplant Center in Rochester, MN. My primary focus is adult and pediatric liver transplantation and living donor surgery. Areas of clinical expertise include:
  Areas of clinical expertise include:
  •Improving outcomes for liver transplant recipients with obesity-related liver disease
  •Advancing techniques for living-donor hepatectomy and striving to ensure long-term donor safety following donor surgery
  •Improving outcomes for liver transplant recipients with hilar cholangiocarcinoma treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy followed by liver transplantation
  •Coordination of our multidisciplinary approach to care of the patient with end-stage liver disease before and after their transplant
  •Leading practice convergence effort across the three Mayo Clinic liver transplant programs in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota to ensure we are all providing the optimal care for our patients

Liver transplant for PSC-associated cholangiocarcinoma
Mayo Clinic is one of the few centers in the United States that performs liver transplantation for cholangiocarcinoma. Mayo is a pioneer of this treatment.

Double impact: Pioneering simultaneous liver transplant and gastric sleeve resec
Drs. Julie Heimbach and Todd Kellogg discuss a pioneering technique that combines liver transplant and gastric sleeve resection into a single surgery.