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Amar Nijagal, M.D. (he/him)

Amar Nijagal, M.D. (he/him)

  • Assistant Professor of Surgery
  • Division of Pediatric Surgery
  • UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, San Francisco

Contact Information

Box 0570
550 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94158
[email protected]

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1996-2000, Duke University, B.A. Philosophy

2000-06, University of California, San Francisco, M.D.

  • 2006-07, University of California, San Francisco, Intern, General Surgery
  • 2007-13, University of California, San Francisco, Resident, General Surgery
  • 2013-14, University of California, San Francisco, Chief Resident, General Surgery
  • California Institute for Regenerative Medicine Clinical Fellow (2009-2012)
  • 2014-16, Boston Children's Hospital, Fellow, Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery
  • American Board of Surgery, General Surgery
  • Hepatobiliary surgery Neonatal surgery Minimally invasive surgery Pediatric Surgery
  • Immunology at the maternal-fetal interface

Amar Nijagal, M.D. is a pediatric surgeon in the UCSF Division of Pediatric Surgery. He completed his undergraduate degree at Duke University and obtained his MD from the University of CA, San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF).

During his general surgery residency at UCSF, he spent three years researching immune responses to in utero stem cell transplantation. He completed his pediatric general and thoracic surgery fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital.

  Award  
  Confired By    
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  • Clinical, Translational, and Outcomes Research Award
  • American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
  • 2021 - 2023
  • Franklin H. Martin, MD, FACS Faculty Research Fellowship
  • American College of Surgeons
  • 2019 - 2021
  • APSA Foundation Jay Grosfeld, MD Scholar Research Award
  • American Pediatric Surgical Association
  • 2018 - 2019
  • Esther Nusz Achievement Award
  • UCSF Department of Surgery
  • 2014
  • Medical Student Teaching Award
  • UCSF Department of Surgery
  • 2014
  • Medical Student Teaching Award
  • UCSF Department of Surgery
  • 2013
  • M. Judah Folkman Memorial Award-Best Podium Presentation
  • American Pediatric Surgical Association
  • 2012
  • M. Judah Folkman Memorial Award-Best Podium Presentation
  • American Pediatric Surgical Association
  • 2011
  • Camille Vandenberge-Storz Young Investigators' Award
  • International Fetal and Maternal Surgical Society
  • 2011
  • Clinical Fellow Research Training Award
  • California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
  • 2009 - 2012
  • Resident Research Award
  • Association of Academic Surgeons
  • 2009
  • Alpha Omega Alpha
  • UCSF School of Medicine
  • 2005
  • Investigating How Immune Cells Regulate the Development and Repair of Fetal Organs

    We study how immune cells may regulate the development and repair of fetal organs.  Our research is currently focused on the development of the liver and bile ducts as the fetal liver is ripe with interactions between developing hepatocytes/cholangiocytes and the hematopoietic system.  We are interested in identifying key relationships and interactions between immune cells and developing tissues in both the steady state and during fetal injury.  Using advanced surgical techniques in mouse models, we are able to manipulate and induce injury in fetal organs.  We have also employed "discovery" approaches to identify novel cell types and pathways that may serve as a link between the immune system and fetal development. 

    More at Nijagal Lab

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    • Defining the role of tumor associated myeloid cells in pediatric hepatoblastoma
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    • The cooperative relationship between neutrophils and monocytes during neonatal liver inflammation: insight into the pathogenesis of biliary atresia
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    • Single cell characterization and organoid development of pediatric choledochal cysts and hepatoblastoma to understand the link between liver development and hepatobiliary malignancy
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    • The Role of Monocytes During the Resolution of Perinatal Liver Inflammation
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    • Investigating the Fetal Mechanisms of Liver and Bile Duct Repair: A Link to the Prenatal Origins of Biliary Atresia
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    MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 39
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    1. Alkhani A, Korsholm C, Levy CS, Mohamedaly S, Duwaerts CC, Pietras EM, Nijagal A. Neonatal Hepatic Myeloid Progenitors Expand and Propagate Liver Injury in Mice. J Clin Med. 2023 Jan 01; 12(1). View in PubMed
    2. Mohamedaly S, Nijagal A. Advances in the Treatment of Neonatal Biliary Disease. Clin Perinatol. 2022 Dec; 49(4):981-993. View in PubMed
    3. Mohamedaly S, Levy CS, Korsholm C, Alkhani A, Rosenberg K, Ashouri JF, Nijagal A. Hepatic Ly6CLo Non-Classical Monocytes Have Increased Nr4a1 (Nur77) in Murine Biliary Atresia. J Clin Med. 2022 Sep 08; 11(18). View in PubMed
    4. Song H, Bucher S, Rosenberg K, Tsui M, Burhan D, Hoffman D, Cho SJ, Rangaswami A, Breese M, Leung S, Ventura MVP, Sweet-Cordero EA, Huang FW, Nijagal A, Wang B. Single-cell analysis of hepatoblastoma identifies tumor signatures that predict chemotherapy susceptibility using patient-specific tumor spheroids. Nat Commun. 2022 08 25; 13(1):4878. View in PubMed
    5. Kelley-Quon LI, Shue E, Burke RV, Smith C, Kling K, Mahdi E, Ourshalimian S, Fenlon M, Dellinger M, Shew SB, Lee J, Padilla B, Inge T, Roach J, Marwan AI, Russell KW, Ignacio R, Fialkowski E, Nijagal A, Im C, Azarow KS, Ostlie DJ, Wang K. The need for early Kasai portoenterostomy: a Western Pediatric Surgery Research Consortium study. Pediatr Surg Int. 2022 Feb; 38(2):193-199. View in PubMed
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