Prospective Students | Students | Faculty | Staff | Patients | Visitors | Alumni
 
 
Denver Skyline Image
Dr. Forman's Photo

 

Lisa M. Forman, MD, MSCE
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Director, Gastroenterology Fellowship Program

Education

  • Medical School:
    • 1991 - 1995 MD University of Pennsylvania
    • 1999 - 2001 MSCE University of Pennsylvania (Epidemiology)
  • Residency: 6/95 - 7/98 Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
  • Fellowship:
    • 7/98-7/01 Gastroenterology, University of Pennsylvania
    • 9/99-5/01 Clinical Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania
  • Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology

Honors and Awards

  • Phi Beta Kappa, Tufts University
  • Anna Quincy Churchill Prize in General Biology, Tufts University
  • Summa Cum Laude, Tufts University
  • Alpha Omega Alpha, University of Pennsylvania
  • Penn Pearls Teaching Award, University of Pennsylvania
  • Clinical Research Curriculum Award, University of Pennsylvania
  • Edward Raffensperger Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Pennsylvania
  • Clinical Research Curriculum Award, University of Pennsylvania
  • Stanley Bradley Research Award, University of Pennsylvania

Faculty Appointments

  • 7/01 - Instructor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Pennsylvania
  • 5/02 - Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology-Hepatology, University of Colorado Health Sciences

Research Interests

Dr. Forman's research interests include NASH, HCV, hepatic encephalopathy, liver transplantation, and metabolic complications after liver transplantation.

Representative Publications

  1. Forman LM, Simmons DA, Diamond RH. Hepatic failure in a patient taking rosiglitazone. Ann Int Med 2000;2:118-21.
  2. Forman LM, Lewis JD, Berlin JA, Feldman HI, Lucey MR. The association between hepatitis C infection and survival after orthotopic liver transplantation. Gastroenterology 2002;122:889-96.
  3. Forman LM. To transplant or not to transplant recurrent hepatitis C and liver failure. Clinics in Liver Disease 2003;7:615-29.
  4. Everson GT, Trotter JF, Kugelmas M, Forman LM. Immunosuppression in liver transplantation. Minerva Chirurgica 2003; 58:725-740.
  5. Medeiros PC, Seligman PA, Everson GT, Forman LM. Possible autoimmune thrombocytopenia associated with pegylated interferon-α2a plus ribavirin treatment for hepatitis C. J Clin Gastroenterol 2003;38:84-86.(download PDF)
  6. Kugelmas M, Osgood MJ, Trotter JF, Bak T, Wachs M, Forman L, Kam I, Everson GT. Hepatitis C virus therapy, hepatocyte drug metabolism, and risk for acute cellular rejection. Liver Transpl 2003;9:1159-1165. (download PDF)
  7. Abt PL, Desai NM, Crawford MD, Forman LM, Markmann JW, Olthoff KM, Markmann JF. Survival following liver transplantation from non-heart-beating donors. Ann Surg 2003;239:87-92. (download PDF)
  8. Dart R, Forman LM. Acute Liver Failure. In Dart RC (ed): Medical Toxicology, 3rd Edition Philadelphia; Lippincott, Williams & Wilkin, 2004: 77-78.
  9. Forman LM, Lucey MR. Setting limits on selection of adults for liver transplantation. Transplantation 2004; 77:19-21.
  10. Piasecki B, Forman LM, Chang KM. Acute and Clinical Viral Hepatitis. In Rustgi AR (ed): Requisites in Gastroenterology Vol 3, Philadelphia; Mosby, Inc. 2004: 51-84.
  11. Forman LM, Trotter JF, Edmond J. Living donor transplantation and hepatitis C [editorial]. Liver Transpl 2004;10:347-348.
  12. Hayashi PH, Trotter JF, Forman L, et al. Impact of pretransplant diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma on cadaveric liver allocation in the era of MELD. Liv Transpl 2004;10:42-48. (download PDF)
  13. Hayashi PH, Ludkowski M, Forman LM, et al. Hepatic artery chemoembolization for hepatocellular carcinoma in patients listed for liver transplantation. Am J Transpl 2004; 4:782-787. (download PDF)
  14. Hayashi PH, Mao J, Slater K, Forman LM. Atrial septal perforation from TIPS stent migration. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2004;15:629-32. (download PDF)
  15. Forman LM. Long-term outcomes post-transplantation. In Everson GT, Trotter JF (eds): Liver Transplantation: Challenging Controversies and Topics, Humana Press, 2007.