Ryan Fischer, MD

I am a board-certified Pediatric Gastroenterologist and Transplant Hepatologist and Section Chief of Hepatology and Transplant Medicine at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City. I have a strong interest in translational research related to liver disease and transplantation, and novel therapeutics to treat disordered inflammation in the liver. My background in the lab includes basic research in dendritic cell biology, antigen presentation and cell-based immunotherapy. In collaboration with investigators at the Children's Mercy Research Institute and the University of Kansas Medical Center's Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, I am working to better understand liver transplant rejection and tolerance, and to harness the potential of engineered regulatory T cells in transplantation and other diseases. Clinically, I focus on the diagnosis and treatment of liver disease in children, with a great deal of time devoted to children that need or have undergone liver transplantation or combined heart-liver transplantation. Our team specializes in liver disease related to congenital heart disease and Fontan physiology, and I am co-director of our multidisciplinary Fontan Clinic.