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Geoffrey James Bond, MD
Job Title
Transplant Director, Pediatric Intestinal Care Center, University of Pittsburgh, Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute
Job Title
Assistant Professor in Transplant Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute
3459 Fifth Ave.
Pittsburgh,
PA
15213
412-647-2345
Phone
412-647-0362
Fax
Email
bondgj@upmc.edu
Education and Training
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Medical School: |
1988 The University of Sydney and Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, N.S.W. Australia |
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Residency: |
1990 Westmead Hospital, Sydney, N.S.W. Australia |
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Fellowship: |
2001 Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA |
Memberships
- Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
- Australasian Association of Paediatric Surgeons
- Transplant Society
- International Pediatric Transplantation Association (IPTA)
- Intestinal Transplant Association
Board Certifications
- Emergency Management of Severe Trauma (EMST)
- Fellowship Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in Pediatric Surgery
- Education Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (USMLE Step I, II, III)
- TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language)
- Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Certification in Transplant Surgery
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support Certification
- New South Wales Medical Board, Sydney, N.S.W. Australia
- Medical Physician and Surgeon, Commonwealth of PA
Awards
- Douglas Cohen Prize for Paediatric Surgery (Australia)
- David Sugerman Prize No II for B.Sc. (Med) in Pathology (Australia)
- Exchange Scholarship to Papua New Guinea (Australia)
- B A Grace Fellowship in Pediatric Surgery and Transplantation (Australia)
- Certificate of Achievement, Visiting Instructor in Transplant Surgery, University of Pittsburgh/Thomas E Starzl Transplantation Institute
Publications
- Isolated liver transplantation in infants with short gut syndrome: is less better?
Mazariegos GV, Soltys KA, Bond GJ, Squires RH, Sindhi R
Liver Transpl - Intestinal transplantation under tacrolimus monotherapy after perioperative lymphoid depletion with rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin (thymoglobulin).
Reyes J, Mazariegos GV, Abu-Elmagd K, Macedo C, Bond GJ, Murase N, Peters J, Sindhi R, Starzl TE
Am J Transplant - Evolutionary experience with immunosuppression in pediatric intestinal transplantation.
Bond GJ, Mazariegos GV, Sindhi R, Abu-Elmagd KM, Reyes J
J Pediatr Surg - Carcinoma of donor origin after liver-intestine transplantation in a child.
Seda Neto J, Macedo C, Jaffe R, Mazariegos GV, Sindhi R, Bond GJ, Abu-Elmagd K, Reyes J
Pediatr Transplant - Sclerosing peritonitis after intestinal transplantation in children.
Macedo C, Sindhi R, Mazariegos GV, Abu-Elmagd K, Bond GJ, Reyes J
Pediatr Transplant - Intestinal transplantation for total/near-total aganglionosis and intestinal pseudo-obstruction.
Bond GJ, Reyes JD
Semin Pediatr Surg - Liver transplantation in children with cystic fibrosis: a long-term longitudinal review of a single center's experience.
Fridell JA, Bond GJ, Mazariegos GV, Orenstein DM, Jain A, Sindhi R, Finder JD, Molmenti E, Reyes J
J Pediatr Surg - Molecular and functional observations on the donor intestinal muscularis during human small bowel transplantation.
Türler A, Kalff JC, Heeckt P, Abu-Elmagd KM, Schraut WH, Bond GJ, Moore BA, Brünagel G, Bauer AJ
Gastroenterology
Research Interests
- Ongoing clinical research into intestinal and multivisceral transplantation in adults and children further developing the field and making it more widely applicable throughout the USA and across the world. This has involved constant modifications in patient management, surgical techniques, and in particular immunosuppressive strategies, including comparing previous protocols, irradiation of the intestinal allograft, and the latest tolerogenic strategy.
- One of two surgeons who performed the initial intestinal transplantation using a new tolerogenic immunosuppressive protocol in Pittsburgh. This tolerogenic protocol attempts to induce tolerance and graft acceptance with the aim of minimizing post transplantation immunosuppression requirements.
- Contributing to a multicenter international study, assessing the efficacy and utility of a new gut hormone to stimulate growth in TPN dependent short bowel syndrome patients. This may help patients come off TPN and avoid transplantation. In addition, I will be contributing to a multicenter study of mechanisms of adaptation in short bowel syndrome.
- As both a pediatric surgeon and transplant surgeon and with the experience achieved from the adult intestinal rehabilitation unit, I will become intimately involved in the expansion of a pediatric intestinal failure unit. This will benefit the pediatric intestinal failure population as a whole and offer seamless transitional care to the necessary modalities of treatment.
Active Research Projects / Grants
- Intestinal Failure in Children: A Contemporary Retrospective Review by the Pediatric Intestinal Failure Consortium
- Functional Outcomes in Pediatric Liver Transplantation
- Normal Humane Subjects for Immune Assay Development
- Vitamin B6 Status during Restoration of Nutritional Autonomy in Adults Post Intestinal Transplantation
- Biomarkers in Transplant Recipients
- Studies on Pediatric Liver Transplantation (SPLIT) a Multi-Center, Prospective Study to Collect Scientific Data on Pediatric Liver Transplantation
- Biologic Studies of Organ Failure and Transplant
- Pharmacodynamics, Pharmacogenomics and Preliminary Safety and Efficacy of Alemtuzumab Induction and Tacrolimus Monotherapy in Pediatric Intestinal Transplantation
- The Assessment of Voriconazole Pharmacokinetics in Small Bowel Transplant Recipients
- An Evaluation of the Physiological and Pathological Factors that Affect the Oral Bioavailability of Tacrolimus in Small Bowel Transplant Patients
- Low Dose Ex-vivo X-Irradiation of the Allograft and Simultaneous Bone Marrow Cell Infusion to Enhance Intestinal/Multivisceral Allograft Survival
