Jin Ge, MD

Education
ATCR, 2020 - , University of California-San Francisco
MBA, 2015 - , University of Pennsylvania
MD, 2015 - , University of Pennsylvania
BSE, 2008 - , Princeton University
Honors and Awards
  • Young Investigator Workshop, AASLD and APASL, 2023
  • Best Oral Presentation at APASL 2023, Asian Pacific Association for Study of the Liver (APASL), 2023
  • Academic Skills Workshop, AASLD and AGA, 2022
  • Anna S. Lok Advanced/Transplant Hepatology Award, AASLD, 2021
  • Young Physician Leadership Scholars Program, American College of Gastroenterology, 2021
  • LICOP Pilot Grant Award, American Society of Transplantation, 2021
  • Bissell Liver Scholar Award, UCSF Liver Center, 2021
  • Young Investigators Forum Research Award, Controversies in Transplantation Conference, 2020
  • Division of Gastroenterology Clinical Fellow Award, University of California, San Francisco, 2019
  • Department of Medicine Rector Clinical Science Research Award, University of California, San Francisco, 2018
  • CTSI Resident Research Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, 2017
  • Emerging Liver Scholar, AASLD, 2016
  • Alpha Omega Alpha, University of Pennsylvania, 2015
  • Healthcare Management Academic Excellence Award, University of Pennsylvania, 2015
  • Palmer Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, 2015
  • Kaiser Permanente Corporate Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2013
  • Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Research Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2011
  • Truman G. Schnabel and Cordelia W. Hopeman Scholarship, University of Pennsylvania, 2010-2015
Publications

  1. Rai K, Lindquist KJ, Kornak J, Ge J. Assessing the associations between immunosuppressant use and COVID-19 severity in patients with autoimmune hepatitis. World journal of hepatology 2026. PMID: 41809469


  2. Vissa A, Far AT, Lai JC, Mehta NJ, Kolli KP, Ge J. TIPS patients face increases in hernia incarceration rates compared to patients managed with paracentesis: An analysis of prevalence and risk factors. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2025. PMID: 41452149


  3. Robitschek E, Bastani A, Horwath K, Sordean S, Pletcher MJ, Lai JC, Galletta S, Ash E, Ge J, Chen IY. A large language model-based approach to quantifying the effects of social determinants in liver transplant decisions. NPJ digital medicine 2025. PMID: 41249463


  4. Far AT, Ayati A, Guillot J, Azzam S, Rudrapatna VA, Ge J. Large Language Models can Identify the Presence of MASH and Extract VCTE Measurements from Unstructured Documentation. Digestive diseases and sciences 2025. PMID: 41206385


  5. Lai M, Verna EC, Kato T, McCulloch CE, Feng S, Lai JC, Ge J, Cullaro G. Trends and Recipient Outcomes in Multiorgan Transplantation in the United States 2013-2023. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2025. PMID: 40939821


  6. 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


  7. Jutras G, Far A, Wang M, Li M, Ge J, Lai JC. Tumor burden and frailty: No association in liver transplant candidates with hepatocellular carcinoma. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2025. PMID: 40833347


  8. Lai M, Chen IY, Lai JC, Ge J. Generative AI in hepatology: Transforming multimodal patient-generated data into actionable insights. Hepatology communications 2025. PMID: 40658800


  9. Digitale J, Franzon D, Ge J, McCulloch C, Pletcher MJ, Gennatas ED. Expert-augmented machine learning for predicting extubation readiness in the pediatric intensive care unit. BMC medical informatics and decision making 2025. PMID: 40597185


  10. Guillot J, Williams CYK, Azzam S, Bhasuran B, Fernandes G, Ru B, Yang J, Zhang X, Shankar RR, Ge J, Rudrapatna VA. Risk Prediction in Patients With Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatohepatitis Using Natural Language Processing. Gastro Hep Advances 2025. PMID: 40688387


  11. Ge J, Lee A, Gologorskaya O, Far A, Bastani A, Huang CY, Pletcher MJ, Lai JC. Characterizing practice variations in the care of hospitalized patients with cirrhosis across the University of California Health. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2025. PMID: 40277433


  12. Ge J. PRO AI: AI-augmented allocation is in our future - We should invest the necessary resources today. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2025. PMID: 40257299


  13. Far A, Bastani A, Lee A, Gologorskaya O, Huang CY, Pletcher MJ, Lai JC, Ge J. Evaluating the positive predictive value of code-based identification of cirrhosis and its complications utilizing GPT-4. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2024. PMID: 39378414


  14. Ge J, Far A, Digitale JC, Pletcher MJ, Lai JC, National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Consortium. Decreasing Case Fatality Rates for Patients with Cirrhosis Infected with SARS-CoV-2: A National COVID Cohort Collaborative Study. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association 2024. PMID: 39181420


  15. Lee SB, Dai R, French E, Anzalone JA, Olex AL, Ge J, Schissel M, Agarwal G, Vinson A, Madhira V, Mannon RB, N3C Consortium. Risk factors for severe outcomes of coronavirus disease 2019 through the waves of the pandemic: Comparing patients with and without solid organ transplantation. Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society 2024. PMID: 38980969


  16. Ge J, Kim WR, Kwong AJ. Common Definitions and Variables are Needed for the United States to Join the Conversation on Acute on Chronic Liver Failure. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2024. PMID: 38977243


  17. Ge J, Sun S, Owens J, Galvez V, Gologorskaya O, Lai JC, Pletcher MJ, Lai K. Reply: Refining retrieval and chunking strategies for enhanced clinical reliability of large language models in liver disease. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2024. PMID: 38935858


  18. 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


  19. 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


  20. Ge J, Chen IY, Pletcher MJ, Lai JC. How I Approach It: Prompt Engineering for Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) in Gastroenterology and Hepatology. The American journal of gastroenterology 2024. PMID: 38294157


  21. Ge J, Sun S, Owens J, Galvez V, Gologorskaya O, Lai JC, Pletcher MJ, Lai K. Development of a liver disease-Specific large language model chat Interface using retrieval augmented generation. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2024. PMID: 38451962


  22. Ge J, Buenaventura A, Berrean B, Purvis J, Fontil V, Lai JC, Pletcher MJ. Applying human-centered design to the construction of a cirrhosis management clinical decision support system. Hepatology communications 2024. PMID: 38407255


  24. Cullaro G, Ge J, Lee BP, Lai JC, Wadhwani SI. Association between neighborhood-based material deprivation and liver transplant waitlist registrants demographics and mortality. Clinical transplantation 2023. PMID: 37937349


  25. Shingina A, Bansal N, Cedars A, Chen S, Daugherty T, Emamaullee J, Ganger D, Ge J, Heller T, Hughes D, Kay J, Ortega Legaspi J, Menachem J, Montenovo M, Sack J, Reardon L, Schiano T, Simpson K, Teuteberg J, Tompkins R, Vodkin I, Wu F, Lui G. Combined Heart Liver Transplantation in the Patients with Advanced Liver Disease and/or Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Why Can't Liver Pull the Heart? American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2023. PMID: 37839708


  26. Wiedel NA, Sayles H, Larson J, Wardian JL, Hewlett A, McClay J, Ge J, Anzalone AJ, N3C consortium. Associations between COVID-19 therapies and inpatient gastrointestinal bleeding: A multisite retrospective study. Journal of medical virology 2023. PMID: 37786247


  27. 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


  28. Ge J, Digitale JC, Fenton C, McCulloch CE, Lai JC, Pletcher MJ, Gennatas ED. Predicting Post-Liver Transplant Outcomes in Patients with Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure using Expert-Augmented Machine Learning. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2023. PMID: 37652176


  29. Ge J, Fontil V, Ackerman S, Pletcher MJ, Lai JC. Clinical decision support and electronic interventions to improve care quality in chronic liver diseases and cirrhosis. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2023. PMID: 37611253


  30. Ge J, Digitale JC, Pletcher MJ, Lai JC, N3C Consortium. Reply: What is the actual role of decompensated cirrhosis in the breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infection? Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2023. PMID: 37459558


  31. Wang M, Ge J, Ha N, Shui AM, Huang CY, Cullaro G, Lai JC. Clinical Characteristics Associated With Posttransplant Survival Among Adults 70 Years Old or Older Undergoing Liver Transplantation. Journal of clinical gastroenterology 2023. PMID: 37279205


  32. Wong RJ, Ge J, Boike J, German M, Morelli G, Spengler E, Said A, Desai A, Couri T, Paul S, Frenette C, Verna EC, Goel A, Fallon M, Thornburg B, VanWagner L, Lai JC, Kolli KP. Change in Platelet Count After Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Creation: An Advancing Liver Therapeutic Approaches (ALTA) Group Study. Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR 2023. PMID: 37100199


  33. Ge J, Lai JC. Artificial intelligence-based text generators in hepatology: ChatGPT is just the beginning. Hepatology communications 2023. PMID: 36972383


  34. Ge J, Digitale JC, Pletcher MJ, Lai JC, N3C Consortium. Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infection outcomes in vaccinated patients with chronic liver disease and cirrhosis: A National COVID Cohort Collaborative study. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2023. PMID: 36799617


  35. Ge J, Kim WR, Lai JC, Kwong AJ. Title: On Building a Better Mousetrap Response to: "Towards Optimally Replacing the Current Version of MELD". Journal of hepatology 2022. PMID: 36402449


  36. Ge J, Lai JC, Wadhwani SI. Novel Approaches Are Needed to Study Social Determinants of Health in Liver Transplantation. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2022. PMID: 35962612


  38. Wadhwani SI, Ge J, Gottlieb L, Lyles C, Beck AF, Bucuvalas J, Neuhaus J, Kotagal U, Lai JC. Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Wait List Outcomes Are Only Partly Explained by Socioeconomic Deprivation Among Children Awaiting Liver Transplantation. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2021. PMID: 34387881


  40. Boike JR, Mazumder NR, Kolli KP, Ge J, German M, Jest N, Morelli G, Spengler E, Said A, Lai JC, Desai AP, Couri T, Paul S, Frenette C, Verna EC, Rahim U, Goel A, Gregory D, Thornburg B, VanWagner LB, Advancing Liver Therapeutic Approaches (ALTA) Study Group. Outcomes After TIPS for Ascites and Variceal Bleeding in a Contemporary Era-An ALTA Group Study. The American journal of gastroenterology 2021. PMID: 34158464


  42. Ge J, Najafi N, Zhao W, Somsouk M, Fang M, Lai JC. A Methodology to Generate Longitudinally Updated Acute-On-Chronic Liver Failure Prognostication Scores From Electronic Health Record Data. Hepatology communications 2021. PMID: 34141990


  43. Ge J, Wood N, Segev D, Lai JC, Gentry S. Implementing a Height-Based Rule for Allocation of Pediatric Donor Livers to Adults - A Liver Simulated Allocation Model (LSAM) Study. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2021. PMID: 33459499


  44. Ge J, Lai JC, Boike JR, German M, Jest N, Morelli G, Spengler E, Said A, Lee A, Hristov A, Desai AP, Junna S, Pokhrel B, Couri T, Paul S, Frenette C, Christian-Miller N, Laurito M, Verna EC, Rahim U, Goel A, Das A, Pine S, Gregory D, VanWagner LB, Kolli KP. NAFLD and Diabetes are Associated with Post-TIPS Renal Dysfunction: An ALTA Group Study. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2020. PMID: 33217178


  45. Kardashian A, Ge J, McCulloch CE, Kappus MR, Dunn MA, Duarte-Rojo A, Volk ML, Rahimi RS, Verna EC, Ganger DR, Ladner D, Dodge JL, Boyarsky B, McAdams-DeMarco M, Segev DL, Lai JC. Identifying an Optimal Liver Frailty Index Cutoff to Predict Waitlist Mortality in Liver Transplant Candidates. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2020. PMID: 32491208


  46. Kim NJ, Rozenberg-Ben-Dror K, Jacob DA, Rich N, Singal AG, Aby ES, Yang JD, Nguyen V, Pillai A, Fuchs M, Moon AM, Shroff H, Agarwal PD, Perumalswami P, Chandna S, Zhou K, Patel YA, Latt NL, Wong R, Duarte-Rojo A, Lindenmeyer CC, Frenette C, Ge J, Mehta N, Yao F, Benhammou JN, Bloom PP, Leise M, Kim HS, Levy C, Barnard A, Khalili M, Ioannou GN. Provider attitudes toward risk-based hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance in patients with cirrhosis in the U.S. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association 2020. PMID: 32927050


  47. 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


  48. Ge J, Perito ER, Bucuvalas J, Gilroy R, Hsu EK, Roberts JP, Lai JC. Split liver transplantation is utilized infrequently and concentrated at few transplant centers in the United States. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2019. PMID: 31705730


  49. Ge J, Lai JC. Identifying a clinically relevant cutoff for height that is associated with a higher risk of waitlist mortality in liver transplant candidates. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2019. PMID: 31597006


  50. Ge J, Lai JC. Split-Liver Allocation: An Underused Opportunity to Expand Access to Liver Transplantation. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2019. PMID: 30920162


  51. Ge J, Hsu EK, Bucuvalas J, Lai JC. Deceased Pediatric Donor Livers: How Current Policy Drives Allocation and Transplantation. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2018. PMID: 30281806


  52. Ge J, Gilroy R, Lai JC. Receipt of a pediatric liver offer as the first offer reduces waitlist mortality for adult women. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2018. PMID: 29604217


  53. Ge J, Roberts JP, Lai JC. A2 liver transplantation across the ABO barrier: Increasing options in the donor pool? Clinical liver disease 2018. PMID: 30992773


  54. Ge J, Roberts JP, Lai JC. Race/ethnicity is associated with ABO-nonidentical liver transplantation in the United States. Clinical transplantation 2017. PMID: 28517242


  59. Ge J, Fishman J, Vapiwala N, Li SQ, Desai K, Xie SX, Mao JJ. Patient-physician communication about complementary and alternative medicine in a radiation oncology setting. . 2012. PMID: 23040545