Christopher D. Anderson, MD
Current Position
Assistant Professor, Surgery
Division of General Surgery
Section of Transplant Surgery
Specialty Areas
Transplantation Surgery
Liver Transplantation
Pediatric Liver Transplantation
Biliary Surgery
Hepatobiliary Pancreatic Cancer
Liver Surgery
Mailing Address
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Washington University School of Medicine
Department of Surgery, Division of General Surgery
Section of Transplantation
Campus Box 8109
660 South Euclid Ave
St. Louis ,
MO
63110
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Areas of Clinical Interest
Laparoscopic liver surgery; Liver, bile duct, and pancreatic surgery for malignant and benign conditions; Adult and pediatric liver transplantation; Living donor liver surgery and partial liver transplantation; laparoscopic donor nephrectomy;Image-guided liver surgery; Ablative therapies for liver tumors; General surgical problems in transplant and organ failure patients
Board Certification
General Surgery
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Certified
Medical Education
Medical Degree: Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 1999
Fellowship (Research): Hepatobiliary Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, , 2004
Residency : General Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 2006
Fellowship: Abdominal Transplant Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis MO, 2008
Hospital Affiliations
Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis
Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital
St. Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis
Major or Recent Publications/Awards
Editorial Responsibilities - Invited Reviewer:
The Lancet
American Journal of Transplantation
Selected or Recent Journal Publications
Doyle M, Anderson CD, Vachharajani N, Lowell J, Shenoy S, Lisker-Melman M, Korenblat K, Crippin C, Chapman WC. Liver transplantation for hepatitis C: Use of older donor grafts does not appear to adversely impact short and medium term graft survival. Archives of Surgery. 2008;143:679-685.
Anderson CD, Turmelle YP, Lowell JA, Nadler M, Millis M, Anand R, Martz K, Shepherd RW, and the SPLIT Research Group. The effect of recipient specific surgical issues on outcome of liver transplantation in biliary atresia. American Journal of Transplantation. 2008;8;1197-1204.
Nicoud IB, Knox CD, Jones CM, Anderson CD, Pierce JM, Belous AE, Earl TM, Revetta FL, Washington MK, Chari RS. 2-APB protects against liver ischemia-reperfusion injury by reducing cellular and mitochondrial calcium uptake. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2007;293:623-630.
Anderson CD, Pierce J, Nicoud IB, Belous AE, Jones CM, Chari RS. Purinergic receptor antagonism prevents cold preservation-induced apoptosis independent of cellular ATP levels. Journal of Surgical Research. 2007;141:234–240.
Anderson CD, Chari RS. Invited commentary: acute intraperitoneal rupture of hydatid cysts. World Journal of Surgery. 2006;30;1884-1885.
Anderson CD, Lin W-C, Chari RS. Prediction of thermal tissue damage using fluorescence spectroscopy. Reviews in Fluorescence. Eds: Geddes, C and Lakowicz, J: 2006.
Knox CD, Pierce JM, Nicoud IB, Belous AE, Jones CM, Anderson CD, Chari RS. Increased liver mitochondrial calcium uptake following cold ischemia is phospholipase C dependent. Transplantation. 2006;81:567-572.
Anderson CD, Pierce J, Nicoud IB, Belous A, Wakata A, Chari RS. Modulation of mitochondrial calcium management attenuates hepatic warm ischemia-reperfusion injury. Liver Transplantation. 2005;11:663-668.
Buttemere CR, Chari RS, Anderson CD, Washington K, Mahadevan-Jansen A, Lin W-C. In vivo assessment of thermal damage in the liver using optical spectroscopy. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 2004;9:1018-1027.
Knox CD, Belous AE, Pierce JM, Wakata A, Nicoud IB, Anderson CD, Pinson CW, Chari RS. A novel role of phospholipase C-ä1: regulation of liver mitochondrial calcium uptake. American Journal of Physiology, Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology 2004;287:G533-G540.
Anderson CD, Lin W-C, Beckham J, Mahadevan-Jansen A, Buttemere CR, Pierce J, Nicoud IB, Pinson CW, Chari RS. Fluorescence spectroscopy accurately detects irreversible cell damage during hepatic radiofrequency ablation. Surgery. 2004;136:524-531.
Anderson CD, Lin W-C, Buttemere CR, Washington MK, Mahadevan-Jansen A, Pierce J, Nicoud IB, Pinson CW, Chari RS. Real-time spectroscopic assessment of thermal damage: implications for radiofrequency ablation. Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery. 2004;8:660-669.
Anderson CD, Meranze S, Bream P Jr, Gorden DL, Kelly Wright J, Pinson CW, Chari RS. Contralateral portal vein embolization for hepatectomy in the setting of hepatic steatosis. The American Surgeon. 2004;70:609-612.
Belous A, Wakata A, Knox CD, Nicoud IB, Pierce J, Anderson CD, Pinson CW, Chari RS. Mitochondrial P2Y-like receptors link cytosolic adenosine nucleotides to mitochondrial calcium uptake. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry. 2004: 94:1062-1073.
Anderson CD, Pierce J, Belous A, Nicoud IB, Knox C, Wakata A, Pinson CW, Chari RS. Mitochondrial calcium uptake during hypothermic storage triggers Bax translocation and caspase-independent cell death during early reperfusion. American Journal of Transplantation. 2004;4:352-362.
Selected or Recent Book Chapters
Fong Y (eds.). Atlas of Upper Abdominal Surgery. Heidelberg: Springer Verlag GmbH & Co.KG; 2007.
Anderson CD, Scoggins CR, Chari RS. Reoperative Hepatobiliary Surgery. In: Soper N, Callery MP (eds.). Handbook of Reoperative Surgery. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing; 2005.