Tsipora Huisman M.D., is a transplant hepatologist at Westchester Medical Center. Dr. Huisman is board certified, and is a member of several professional societies, including the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. She provides medical treatment for patients with chronic liver disease and end stage liver disease. Dr. Huisman evaluates the need for liver transplant, and cares for her patients before and after transplant.

Education

• Fellowship: Gastroenterology and Transplant Hepatology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY
• Residency: Internal Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinani, NY
• M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY

Areas of Expertise

• Internal Medicine 
• Transplant Hepatology
• Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)/non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)
• Alcohol-associated liver disease
• Viral hepatitis 
• Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), autoimmune hepatitis
• Cirrhosis
• Liver Failure
• Liver transplantation and post-transplant care

Honors and Awards

• Anne Scheiber Scholarship Award, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
• Poster of Distinction for presentation at The Liver Meeting® 2018: "A Multidisciplinary Protocol for the Management of Hyponatremia at the Time of Liver Transplantation is Associated with Reduced Post-Transplant Neurologic Complications"
• Third Annual GI Fellows Advanced Hepatology Educational Summit, NY

Publications

• Grootjen LN, Diene G, Molinas C, et. al. "Longitudinal Changes in Acylated versus Unacylated Ghrelin Levels May Be Involved in the Underlying Mechanisms of the Switch in Nutritional Phases in Prader-Willi Syndrome." Hormone research in paediatrics, 97(4), (2024) 343-352. doi: 10.1159/000534560
• Huisman TM, Dieterich DT, Friedman SL, et. al. "Experimental and Investigational Targeted Therapies for the Management of Fibrosis in NASH: An Update." Journal of experimental pharmacology, 13(), (2021) 329-338. doi: 10.2147/JEP.S265286
• Damen L, Grootjen LN, Juriaans AF, et. al. "Oxytocin in young children with Prader-Willi syndrome: Results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover trial investigating 3 months of oxytocin." Clinical endocrinology, 94(5), (2021) 774-785. doi: 10.1111/cen.14387
• Shcherbakova DM, Cammer NC, Huisman TM, et. al. "Publisher Correction: Direct multiplex imaging and optogenetics of Rho GTPases enabled by near-infrared FRET." Nature chemical biology, 14(9), (2018) 902. doi: 10.1038/s41589-018-0070-z
• Shcherbakova DM, Cox Cammer N, Huisman TM, et. al. "Direct multiplex imaging and optogenetics of Rho GTPases enabled by near-infrared FRET." Nature chemical biology, 14(6), (2018) 591-600. doi: 10.1038/s41589-018-0044-1
• Kuppens RJ, Delhanty PJ, Huisman TM, et. al. "The Authors' Reply: Acylated and unacylated ghrelin during OGTT in Prader-Willi syndrome, a rebuttal to the conclusions by Kuppens et al." Clinical endocrinology, 85(2), (2016) 323-4. doi: 10.1111/cen.13091
• Kuppens RJ, Delhanty PJ, Huisman TM, et. al. "Acylated and unacylated ghrelin during OGTT in Prader-Willi syndrome: support for normal response to food intake." Clinical endocrinology, 85(3), (2016) 488-94. doi: 10.1111/cen.13036

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Teaching Responsibilities

• Associate Program Director - Transplant Hepatology