Speaker

David C Fipps, DO

Mayo Clinic

David C Fipps, DO

Biography

Dr. David C. Fipps, DO, is a transplant psychiatrist with subspecialty training in Consultation Liaison psychiatry and Addictions Psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Embedded within the Mayo Clinic Transplant Center, he provides psychiatric consultation and psychosocial assessment for candidates and recipients of heart, lung, liver, kidney, and vascular composite allograft transplantation. His clinical and scholarly interests include transplant candidate selection, substance use disorders in transplantation, biomarker-guided assessment of alcohol use, psychosocial outcomes after transplantation, and the integration of consultation-liaison and addiction psychiatry within transplant medicine. Dr. Fipps is actively involved in national leadership through the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, where he serves in multiple educational and scholarly roles. His research focuses on optimizing psychosocial evaluation practices, improving transplant outcomes, and advancing evidence-based approaches to complex ethical and behavioral health issues in transplantation.

Sessions

8:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Convention Center - Bluebird Ballroom 3ABC

American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society Transplant Course, Parts 1–5 (Ticketed)

Peter Abt, MD | Moderator,

Ramesh Batra, MD, MA(Bioethics), FRCS | Moderator,

Valeria M Mas, PhD | Presenter,

Babak J Orandi, MD, PhD, MSc | Presenter,

Abhinav Humar, MD | Presenter,

Tarunjeet Klair, MBBS | Presenter,

David C Fipps, DO | Presenter,

Randhir Dr Sud, DM | Presenter,

Eran Shlomovitz, MD | Presenter,

Varvara (Varia) A Kirchner, MD | Moderator,

Arpit Amin, MD MPH | Moderator,

Renumathy Dhanasekaran, MD, PhD | Presenter,

Adam Slivka, MD,PhD | Presenter,

Koji Hashimoto, MD, PhD | Presenter,

Mark Ghobrial, MD, PhD | Presenter,

Prasun K Jalal, MD, FRCP (UK), FAASLD, FACG, FASGE, AGAF | Moderator,

Helen Hyosun, MD | Moderator,

Carmen Vinaixa, MD, PhD | Presenter,

Jennifer C Lai, MD, MBA | Presenter,

Ryan Chadha, MD | Presenter,

Riad Salem, MD | Presenter,

Rajender Reddy | Presenter,

Rajiv Jalan, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRCPE, FAASLD | Presenter,

Bandar Aljudaibi, MBBS | Moderator,

Zahid M Vahora, MD | Moderator,

Manhal J Izzy, MD | Presenter,

Moira B. Hilscher, MD | Presenter,

Faouzi Saliba, MD, PhD | Presenter,

Peter Abt, MD | Presenter,

Tami Daugherty, MD | Presenter,

Gaurav Gupta, MD | Presenter,

Karen Krok, MD, FAASLD | Moderator,

Ahmed El Sabagh, MD | Moderator,

Prashant Bhangui, MBBS, MS, Masters in HPB Surgery, European Inter U | Presenter,

Constance M Mobley, MD, PhD | Presenter,

Ramesh Batra, MD, MA(Bioethics), FRCS | Presenter,

Arpit Amin, MD MPH | Chair,

Peter Abt, MD | Chair,

Prasun K Jalal, MD, FRCP (UK), FAASLD, FACG, FASGE, AGAF | Chair,

Ramesh Batra, MD, MA(Bioethics), FRCS | Chair,

Valeria M Mas, PhD | Chair

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