University of California San Francisco

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Jennifer
Price
MD

Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine

Hepatology and Liver Transplantation

Department of Medicine

Address

513 Parnassus Avenue, MSB, #357M
San Francisco, CA 94143
United States

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 415-502-1429
Fax: 415-476-0659

    Biography

    Dr. Jennifer Cohen Price is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine and hepatologist, specializing in treating patients needing liver transplants. Her research interests include liver disease in HIV infection, the natural history and treatment of viral hepatitis, and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. 

    Dr. Price received her medical degree at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2004. She continued her medical training at Johns Hopkins, where she completed her residency, gastroenterology and hepatology fellowship, and transplant hepatology fellowship.  She is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, and a member of the American College of Gastroenterology, American Gastroenterological Association, and American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.  Dr. Price is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in internal medicine and gastroenterology. 

    Education

    Institution Degree Dept or School End Date
    Johns Hopkins Hospital Fellowship in Gastroenterology Department of Medicine
    Johns Hopkins Hospital Fellowship in Transplant Hepatology Department of Medicine
    Johns Hopkins Hospital Internship and Residency Department of Medicine
    Johns Hopkins University Ph.D. Bloomberg School of Public Health
    Johns Hopkins University M.D. School of Medicine
    Stanford University B.A.

    Board Certifications

    American Board of Internal Medicine
    American Board of Internal Medicine - Gastroenterology

    Awards & Honors

    Award Conferred By Date
    Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 2016
    ACG Junior Faculty Development Award American College of Gastroenterology 2015
    Gilead Research Scholars Program in HIV Gilead Sciences 2015
    UCSF Hellman Fellows Award Hellman Fellows Fund 2015
    Pilot Award Program in HIV/AIDS UCSF Resource Allocation Program 2014
    ACG Clinical Research Pilot Award American College of Gastroenterology 2012
    Clinical Research Scholars KL2 Award Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 2009
    Johns Hopkins Department of Medicine Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Fellow Johns Hopkins Hospital 2008
    Alpha Omega Alpha Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 2004
    W. Bradford Patterson Fellowship Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 1999
    Phi Beta Kappa Stanford University 1999

    Clinical Expertise

    Alcoholic Liver Disease

    Autoimmune Hepatitis

    Cirrhosis

    Drug-Induced Hepatitis

    Fulminant Hepatic Failure

    Hemochromatosis

    Hepatitis B

    Hepatitis C

    Hepatocellular Carcinoma (Liver Cancer)

    Liver Transplantation

    Living Donor Liver Transplantation

    Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

    Polycystic Liver Disease

    Primary Biliary Cirrhosis

    Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis

    Clinical Trials

    1. Related Conditions: Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis, Steatohepatitis, HIV/AIDS, Liver Disease| Start Date: | End Date:
    2. Related Conditions: HIV/AIDS, Liver Transplant| Start Date: | End Date:
    3. Related Conditions: Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, HIV/AIDS, Liver Disease| Start Date: | End Date:

    Program Affiliations

    UCSF Liver Center

    Grants and Funding

    • San Francisco Bay Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) | NIH | 2007-03-02 - 2027-11-30 | Role: Co-Investigator
    • SF Bay Area MACS/WIHS Combined Cohort Study | NIH | 2019-04-01 - 2026-03-31 | Role: Co-Principal Investigator
    • Ancillary Studies of NAFLD and NASH in HIV infected Adults | NIH/NIDDK | 2020-03-21 - 2025-01-31 | Role: Co-Investigator

    Research Interests

    Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)

    Liver injury and repair (Liver transplantation)

    Liver disease and HIV

    Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

    Viral hepatitis 

    Publications

    MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 116
    1. A Comparison of the Liver Fat Score and CT Liver-to-Spleen Ratio as Predictors of Fatty Liver Disease by HIV Serostatus
      Mellor-Crummey LE, Lake JE, Wilhalme H, Tseng CH, Grant PM, Erlandson KM, Price JC, Palella Jr FJ, Kingsley LA, Budoff M, Post WS, Brown TT| | UCSF Research Profile
    2. Hepatitis C Virus Infection in the Older Patient.
      Reid M, Price JC, Tien PC| | PubMed
    3. Editorial: Statins and Liver Disease: Is it Time to Recommend Statins to Prevent Liver Disease Progression?
      Price JC, Tien PC| | PubMed
    4. Controlled attenuation parameter and magnetic resonance spectroscopy-measured liver steatosis are discordant in obese HIV-infected adults.
      Price JC, Dodge JL, Ma Y, Scherzer R, Korn N, Tillinghast K, Peters MG, Noworolski S, Tien PC| | PubMed
    5. The Association of Inflammatory Markers With Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Differs by Human Immunodeficiency Virus Serostatus.
      Price JC, Wang R, Seaberg EC, Budoff MJ, Kingsley LA, Palella FJ, Witt MD, Post WS, Thio CL| | PubMed
    6. Reply.
      Price JC, Tien PC| | PubMed
    7. Human immunodeficiency virus-infected and uninfected adults with non-genotype 3 hepatitis C virus have less hepatic steatosis than adults with neither infection.
      Price JC, Ma Y, Scherzer R, Korn N, Tillinghast K, Peters MG, Noworolski SM, Tien PC| | PubMed
    8. Higher CD163 levels are associated with insulin resistance in hepatitis C virus-infected and HIV-infected adults.
      Reid M, Ma Y, Scherzer R, Price JC, French AL, Plankey MW, Grunfeld C, Tien PC| | PubMed
    9. Sex differences in the association of HIV infection with hepatic steatosis.
      Kardashian A, Ma Y, Scherzer R, Price JC, Sarkar M, Korn N, Tillinghast K, Peters MG, Noworolski SM, Tien PC| | PubMed
    10. Perceptions of fecal microbiota transplantation for Clostridium difficile infection: factors that predict acceptance.
      Park L, Mone A, Price JC, Tzimas D, Hirsh J, Poles MA, Malter L, Chen LA| | PubMed