Jessica Rubin, MD, MPH

Education
Fellowship, 06/2021 - Transplant Hepatology, UCSF
Fellowship, 06/2020 - Gastroenterology, UCSF
Residency, 06/2017 - Internal Medicine, UCSF
MD, 05/2014 - , Weill Cornell Medical College
BS, 05/2009 - Biomedical Engineering, Yale University
MPH, 05/212 - Health Care Management, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Honors and Awards
  • Anna S. Lok Advanced/Transplant Hepatology Award (grant), American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, 2020
  • Women's Health Community of Practice Travel Award, American Society of Transplantation, 2019
  • Outstanding Resident Research Award, UCSF Department of Medicine, 2017
  • Young Investigator Award (International Liver Congress), European Association for the Study of the Liver, 2016
  • Elise Strang L’Esperance Prize in Public Health, Weill Cornell Medicine, 2014
  • Glasgow-Rubin Memorial Achievement Award, Weill Cornell Medicine, 2014
  • John Metcalf Polk Prize, Weill Cornell Medicine, 2014
  • Leonard P. Tow Humanism in Medicine Award / Gold Humanism Honor Society, Weill Cornell Medicine, 2014
  • Alpha Omega Alpha, Weill Cornell Medicine, 2013
  • Hayworth-Gold Award for Excellence in Medical Professionalism, Weill Cornell Medicine, 2013
  • Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honorary, Yale University, 2007
Publications

  1. Calthorpe L, Rubin J, Lee C, Roll GR, Feng S, Lai JC. Age, comorbidity burden, and mortality risk in hospitalized patients with hepatocellular carcinoma. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2026. PMID: 41532811


  2. Lai M, Fenton C, Rubin J, Huang CY, Pletcher M, Lai JC, Cullaro G, Ge J. Clinical Sentiment Analysis by Large Language Models Enhances Prediction of Hepatorenal Syndrome. Gastro Hep Advances 2025. PMID: 41142522


  3. Calthorpe L, Rubin J, Lee C, Roll G, Feng S, Lai JC. The Cirrhosis-Hospital Frailty Risk Score predicts mortality in patients with chronic liver disease: Analysis of a nationally representative database. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2025. PMID: 40674284


  4. Rubin JB, Loeb R, Monto A, Wong RJ, Cheung R, Batki SL, Ostacher MJ, Shen H, Hoggatt KJ, Satre DD, Khalili M. COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Disruptions in Routine Cirrhosis Care and Associated Clinical Outcomes among San Francisco Bay Area Veterans. Gastro Hep Advances 2025. PMID: 40777595


  5. Wang M, Harris A, McCulloch CE, Wadhwani SI, Lai JC, Rubin JB. Racial differences in primary sclerosing cholangitis: A retrospective cohort study leveraging a new ICD-10 code. Annals of hepatology 2025. PMID: 40081809


  6. Runge A, Loeb B, Shui AM, Fenton C, Lai J, Rubin J. Cannabis and liver transplant in the era of legalization: Effects of pre-transplant cannabis use on postoperative opioid use and transplant outcomes. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2025. PMID: 39976576


  7. Zhang GY, Cortella A, Lai JC, Rubin JB. Erratum: Pain in chronic liver disease compared to other chronic conditions: Results from a nationally representative cohort study. Hepatology communications 2025. PMID: 39969480


  9. Lai M, Fenton C, Rubin J, Huang CY, Pletcher M, Lai JC, Cullaro G, Ge J. Clinical Sentiment Analysis by Large Language Models Enhances the Prediction of Hepatorenal Syndrome in Decompensated Cirrhosis. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2024. PMID: 39606343


  10. Zhang GY, Rubin JB. Rethinking Drug-Induced Liver Injury-A New Era of Pharmacovigilance. Volume 184 of Issue 8. JAMA internal medicine 2024. PMID: 38913358


  11. Wong RJ, Loeb R, Seal KH, Barry F, Stark Kent D, Seetharaman S, Sharma A, Lai JC, Rubin JB. The Complex Relationship Between Pain, Mental Health, and Quality-of-Life in Patients With Cirrhosis Undergoing Liver Transplant Evaluation. Journal of clinical gastroenterology 2024. PMID: 39008614


  12. Wang M, Shui AM, Rubin JB, Pyrsopoulos N, Lai JC. Association between protein-energy malnutrition and healthcare use among adult patients after liver transplantation: A retrospective cohort study. JPEN. Journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition 2024. PMID: 38944761


  13. Rubin JB, Loeb R, Fenton C, Huang CY, Keyhani S, Seal KH, Lai JC. The burden of significant pain in the cirrhosis population: Risk factors, analgesic use, and impact on health care utilization and clinical outcomes. Hepatology communications 2024. PMID: 38780295


  14. Rubin JB, Aby ES, Barman P, Tincopa M. Opioid use and risks in candidates and recipients of liver transplant. Volume 31 of Issue 2. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2024. PMID: 38669598


  15. Cullaro G, Chiou SH, Fenton C, Ge J, McCulloch CE, Rubin J, Shui AM, Yao F, Lai JC. Outpatient mean arterial pressure: A potentially modifiable risk for acute kidney injury and death among cirrhosis patients. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2024. PMID: 38535488


  16. Cullaro G, Allegretti AS, Fenton C, Ge J, Patidar KR, Rubin J, Sharma A, Lai JC. The association between mean arterial pressure and acute kidney injury reversal among decompensated cirrhosis patients. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2024. PMID: 38537129


  17. Calthorpe L, Chiou SH, Rubin J, Huang CY, Feng S, Lai J. A modified hospital frailty risk score for patients with cirrhosis undergoing abdominal operations. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2024. PMID: 38373139


  18. Lai M, Fenton C, Ge J, Rubin J, Lai JC, Cullaro G. Nonselective beta-blockers may lead to stage 2 acute kidney injury and waitlist mortality in child class C cirrhosis. Hepatology communications 2023. PMID: 37756037


  19. Duarte MJ, Rubin JB. Editorial: Social determinants of health in steatotic liver disease-Generating community-level data to maximise community impact. Volume 58 of Issue 5. Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics 2023. PMID: 37559516


  20. Wang M, Wadhwani SI, Cullaro G, Lai JC, Rubin JB. Racial and Ethnic Disparities Among Patients Hospitalized for Acute Cholangitis in the United States. Journal of clinical gastroenterology 2022. PMID: 35997698


  21. Rubin JB, Lai JC, Shui AM, Hohmann SF, Auerbach A. Cirrhosis Inpatients Receive More Opioids and Fewer Nonopioid Analgesics Than Patients Without Cirrhosis. . 2021. PMID: 34653064


  22. Wang M, Auerbach A, Oreper SM, Hohmann SF, Lai JC, Rubin JB. Leveraging a New ICD-10 Diagnosis Code to Characterize Hospitalized Patients With Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association 2022. PMID: 36113826


  23. Berry K, Rubin JB, Lai JC. Osmotic Demyelination Syndrome in Hospitalized Patients With Cirrhosis: Analysis of the National Inpatient Sample (NIS). Journal of clinical gastroenterology 2021. PMID: 33731600


  24. Rubin JB, Lai JC, Leonard S, Seal K, Hoggatt KJ, Keyhani S. Long-Term Opioid Use Among Veterans with Cirrhosis: High-Dose Prescriptions in an Exceedingly High-Risk Population. . 2022. PMID: 35037175


  25. Cullaro G, Rubin J, Mehta N, Yao F, Verna EC, Lai JC. Sex-Based Disparities in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Recurrence After Liver Transplantation. Transplantation 2020. PMID: 33323764


  26. Redberg RF, Parks AL, Rubin JB. Persistent Gender Pay Gaps in Medicine: What Is Good for the Goose Is Better for the Gander's Paycheck. JAMA internal medicine 2021. PMID: 34251404


  27. Cullaro G, Rubin JB, Fortune BE, Crawford CV, Verna EC, Hsu CY, Liu KD, Brown RS, Lai JC, Rosenblatt R. Association Between Kidney Dysfunction Types and Mortality Among Hospitalized Patients with Cirrhosis. Digestive diseases and sciences 2021. PMID: 34292470


  28. Rubin JB, Lai JC, Shui AM, Hohmann SF, Auerbach A. Patterns of Inpatient Opioid Use and Related Adverse Events Among Patients With Cirrhosis: A Propensity-Matched Analysis. Hepatology communications 2021. PMID: 34141991


  29. Sarkar M, Grab J, Dodge JL, Gunderson EP, Rubin J, Irani RA, Cedars M, Terrault N. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in pregnancy is associated with adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes. Journal of hepatology 2020. PMID: 32531415


  30. Rubin JB, Cullaro G, Ge J, Lai JC. Women who undergo liver transplant have longer length of stay post-transplant compared with men. Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver 2020. PMID: 32412164


  31. Rubin JB, Sundaram V, Lai JC. Gender Differences Among Patients Hospitalized With Cirrhosis in the United States. Journal of clinical gastroenterology 2019. PMID: 30807399


  32. Cullaro G, Rubin JB, Mehta N, Lai JC. The Differential Impact of Age Among Liver Transplant Candidates With and Without HCC. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2019. PMID: 31610089


  33. Rubin JB, Srisengfa YT, Albhaisi S, Acharya C, Nangia G, Shaikh T, Thacker LR, Reddy KR, Tandon P, Bajaj JS, Lai JC. Hospitalized women with cirrhosis have more non-hepatic comorbidities and associated complications than men. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association 2019. PMID: 31593766


  34. Rubin JB, Sinclair M, Rahimi RS, Tapper EB, Lai JC. Women on the liver transplantation waitlist are at increased risk of hospitalization compared to men. World journal of gastroenterology 2019. PMID: 30833803


  35. Rubin JB, Hameed B, Gottfried M, Lee WM, Sarkar M. Acetaminophen-induced Acute Liver Failure Is More Common and More Severe in Women. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association 2017. PMID: 29199145


  36. Rubin JB, Bishop TF. Characteristics of paid malpractice claims settled in and out of court in the USA: a retrospective analysis. Volume 3 of Issue 6. BMJ open 2013. PMID: 23794584


  37. Rubin JB, Borden WB. Coronary heart disease in young adults. Volume 14 of Issue 2. Current atherosclerosis reports 2012. PMID: 22249950


  38. Rubin JB, Paltiel AD, Saltzman WM. Are we studying what matters? Health priorities and NIH-funded biomedical engineering research. Volume 38 of Issue 7. Annals of biomedical engineering 2010. PMID: 20225125


  39. Hirbe AC, Rubin J, Uluçkan O, Morgan EA, Eagleton MC, Prior JL, Piwnica-Worms D, Weilbaecher KN. Disruption of CXCR4 enhances osteoclastogenesis and tumor growth in bone. Volume 104 of Issue 35. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2007. PMID: 17715292