Glen Lutchman

Clinical Focus

• Liver Transplantation
• Gastroenterology

Honors and Awards

• AASLD Advanced Hepatology Fellowship,, American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (2007-2008)
• NIH Intramural Fellows Travel Award, National Institutes of Health (2003)
• Chin Yee Prize for Surgery, University of the West Indies (1996)
• Honors in Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of the West Indies (1996)
• Honors in Pharmacology, University of the West Indies (1996)

Professional Education

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Medicine

Research Interests

My primary research intesret is in metabolic liver disease primarily non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. I also have an interset in transplant outcomes for patients with chronic hepatitis C.

Publications

• Clinical trial: Pilot study of metformin for the treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. Loomba R, Lutchman G, Kleiner DE, Ricks M, Feld JJ, Borg BB, Modi A, Nagabhyru P, Sumner AE, Liang TJ, Hoofnagle JH. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2008
• The effects of discontinuing pioglitazone in patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. Lutchman G, Modi A, Kleiner DE, Promrat K, Heller T, Ghany M, Borg B, Loomba R, Liang TJ, Premkumar A, Hoofnagle JH. Hepatology. 2007; 46 (2): 424-9
• Mutation rate of the hepatitis C virus NS5B in patients undergoing treatment with ribavirin monotherapy. Lutchman G, Danehower S, Song BC, Liang TJ, Hoofnagle JH, Thomson M, Ghany MG. Gastroenterology. 2007; 132 (5): 1757-66
• Changes in serum adipokine levels during pioglitazone treatment for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis: relationship to histological improvement. Lutchman G, Promrat K, Kleiner DE, Heller T, Ghany MG, Yanovski JA, Liang TJ, Hoofnagle JH. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2006; 4 (8): 1048-52
• Steatosis and progression of fibrosis in untreated patients with chronic hepatitis C infection. Perumalswami P, Kleiner DE, Lutchman G, Heller T, Borg B, Park Y, Liang TJ, Hoofnagle JH, Ghany MG. Hepatology. 2006; 43 (4): 780-7