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Ali Benjamin Abbasi, MD

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Title(s)Resident, Surgery
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Address35 Medical Center Way, #001
San Francisco CA 94143
Phone415-476-1239
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    University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UKBA/MSci07/2015Physics
    University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UKMPhil08/2016Computational Biology
    University of Chicago, Chicago, ILMD07/2020Medicine

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    Ali B. Abbasi, MD MPhil MSci is a general surgery resident with the UCSF Department of Surgery. He previously attended the University of Cambridge, where he obtained a BA/MSci in Physics, an MPhil in Computational Biology, and rowed on the varsity crew team, winning the 2016 Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race. He completed medical school at the University of Chicago where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha honor medical society.

    During his research years, Dr. Abbasi was a T32 Fellow in Surgical Oncology on placement at the US Food and Drug Administration, where he served as senior policy advisor to Commissioner Robert Califf MD. In this role, Dr. Abbasi worked to enable more streamlined clinical trials in the US health care system.

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    1. Management of the kidney transplant candidate with obesity. Curr Opin Organ Transplant. 2026 Jan 29. Abbasi AB, Orandi BJ. PMID: 41606957.
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    2. Project Donor: A National Intervention to Improve the Health of Potential Living Donors. Clin Transplant. 2025 Dec; 39(12):e70403. Abbasi AB, Shuman D, Carmichael K, Sukumar C, Rorty R, Zambeli-Ljepovic A, Stock PG, Orandi BJ. PMID: 41328597.
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    3. Steroid Withdrawal Versus Maintenance in Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplantation: Long-Term Outcomes in a Single-Center Retrospective Cohort. Clin Transplant. 2025 Nov; 39(11):e70358. Meier RPH, Abbasi AB, Gamino G, Kelly YM, Tavakol M, Conti G, Sarwal M, Stock PG, Freise CE. PMID: 41134310; PMCID: PMC12551689.
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    4. Systematic data capture reduces the need for source data verification: exploratory analysis from a phase 2 multicenter randomized controlled platform trial. Commun Med (Lond). 2025 Oct 29; 5(1):444. Abbasi AB, Liu KD, Russell DW, Files DC, Thomas KW, Yousef F, Gandotra S, Discacciati A, Lim N, Asare AL, Eklund M, Matthay M, Esserman LJ, I-SPY COVID Investigators. PMID: 41162684; PMCID: PMC12572212.
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    5. Opportunities for Pragmatic Design Elements in Surgical Trials. JAMA Surg. 2025 Oct 01; 160(10):1133-1137. Abbasi A, Weltz A, Rivera DR, Nagel S, Mehta GU, Ashar BS, Cunningham SC. PMID: 40864447; PMCID: PMC12452089.
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    6. Leukocyte immunoglobulin like receptor B3 (LILRB3) and allograft survival: can precision medicine target health disparities? Kidney Int. 2025 Dec; 108(6):982-984. Abbasi AB, Sarwal MM. PMID: 40856677.
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    7. The Promise of Real-World Data for Research - What Are We Missing? N Engl J Med. 2025 Jul 24; 393(4):318-321. Abbasi AB, Curtis LH, Califf RM. PMID: 40689459.
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    8. Malakoplakia among kidney transplant recipients: case series and literature review. Front Immunol. 2025; 16:1605146. Abbasi AB, Gamino G, Zambeli-Ljepovic A, Whelan AM, Roll GR, Altshuler PJ. PMID: 40486516; PMCID: PMC12140987.
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    9. Obesity management before and after pancreas transplantation. Curr Opin Organ Transplant. 2025 Aug 01; 30(4):315-322. Abbasi AB, Posselt A, Orandi BJ, Odorico JS, Stock PG. PMID: 40314343.
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    10. A Unified Approach to Health Data Exchange: A Report From the US DHHS. JAMA. 2025 03 25; 333(12):1074-1079. Abbasi AB, Layden J, Gordon W, Gregurick S, DeLew N, Grossman J, Bierman AS, Monarez S, Curtis LH, Viall AH, Rocca M, Rivera DR, Marston H, Mugge A, Smith SR, Bent K, Macrae J, Sheehy A, Wegrzyn RD, Valdez RB, Johnson C, Bush L, Blum J, Cohen MK, Bertagnolli MM, Califf RM, Tripathi M. PMID: 39826091; PMCID: PMC11936714.
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    11. The Quality of Evidence Supporting Clinical Practice Guidelines in General Surgery: A Meta-Analysis. JAMA Surg. 2025 Feb 01; 160(2):226-227. Abbasi AB, Valderrama A, Decker HC, Bongiovanni T, Wick EC. PMID: 39565614; PMCID: PMC11579889.
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    12. Predicting Over-immunosuppression in Kidney Transplant Recipients: Steps Toward Precision Medicine. Transplantation. 2025 Jul 01; 109(7):1113-1114. Zambeli-Ljepovic A, Abbasi AB, Altshuler PJ. PMID: 39665488.
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    13. Why Evidence Generation Should Matter to Payers-Reply. JAMA. 2024 Dec 10; 332(22):1947-1948. Abbasi AB, Curtis LH, Califf RM. PMID: 39541101.
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    14. Digital Health Technologies for Cardiometabolic Disease and Diabetes: A Perspective From the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2025 Feb 11; 85(5):528-535. Warraich HJ, Patrick-Lake B, Saha A, Rashid L, Pai V, Abbasi A, Diamond MC, Tazbaz T, Califf RM. PMID: 39641737.
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    15. Post-approval evidence generation: a shared responsibility for healthcare. Nat Med. 2024 Nov; 30(11):3046-3049. Abbasi A, Rivera D, Curtis LH, Califf RM. PMID: 39271845.
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    16. Accelerating evidence generation: Addressing critical challenges and charting a path forward. J Clin Transl Sci. 2024; 8(1):e184. Rim JG, Jackman JG, Hornik CP, Rutter JL, Warraich H, Wittes J, Fleisher L, Anderson BS, Krofah E, Kinter E, Locke T, Kehoe L, Abbasi A, Marston H, Meeker-O'Connell A, Weber W, Wang T, Hernandez AF, Landray M, Palmer SM. PMID: 39655038; PMCID: PMC11626582.
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    17. Long-term impact of immigration status on outcomes in pediatric kidney transplant recipients. Am J Transplant. 2025 Feb; 25(2):368-375. Nunez M, Abbasi A, McEnhill M, Brennan J, Shappell T, Kinnier S, Winnicki E, Stock P. PMID: 39278627.
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    18. Why Evidence Generation Should Matter to Payers and How They Can Help. JAMA. 2024 08 06; 332(5):412-417. Abbasi AB, Curtis LH, Fleisher LA, Califf RM. PMID: 38949829.
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    19. Why Should the FDA Focus on Pragmatic Clinical Research? JAMA. 2024 07 09; 332(2):103-104. Abbasi AB, Curtis LH, Califf RM. PMID: 38829729.
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    20. Modifier 22-Is It All Just a Catch-22? JAMA Surg. 2024 May 01; 159(5):570. Abbasi AB, Wick EC. PMID: 38506883.
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    21. Don't Ask Us to Stop Cycling: A Surgical Perspective. Ann Surg Open. 2024 Mar; 5(1):e380. Abbasi AB, Zambeli-Ljepovic A. PMID: 38883930; PMCID: PMC11175853.
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    22. Precision Oncology in Breast Cancer Surgery. Surg Oncol Clin N Am. 2024 Apr; 33(2):293-310. Abbasi AB, Wu V, Lang JE, Esserman LJ. PMID: 38401911.
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    23. Why some Patients Benefit from Participating in a Sham Surgery Trial. Ann Surg. 2024 Apr 01; 279(4):577-582. Abbasi AB, Cifu AS. PMID: 37870249.
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    24. Hidden hazards and screening policy: Predicting undetected lead exposure in Illinois. J Health Econ. 2023 07; 90:102783. Abbasi A, DiTraglia FJ, Gazze L, Pals B. PMID: 37413713.
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    25. Tracheal Reconstruction Using Endotracheal Stent and Pectoralis Major Muscle Flap. Ann Thorac Surg Short Rep. 2023 Mar; 1(1):118-120. Abbasi AB, Alcon A, Patel A, Gesthalter Y, Hoffman W, Kratz J. PMID: 39790512; PMCID: PMC11708533.
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    26. The Reversal of a "Reversible" Procedure. Am J Surg. 2022 01; 223(1):216-217. Abbasi AB, Cifu AS. PMID: 34412899.
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    27. Reconstruction Using Endotracheal Stent and Pectoralis Major Muscle Flap. Annals of Thoracic Surgery Short Reports. 2021; 1(1):118-120. Ali B. Abbasi, MD Andre Alcon, MD Alap Patel, MD Yaron Gesthalter, MD William Hoffman, MD Johannes Kratz, MD. View Publication.
    28. Predictors of Opioid Prescription After Orthognathic Surgery in Opioid Naive Adults From a Large Database. J Craniofac Surg. 2021 May 01; 32(3):978-982. Pakvasa M, Abbasi A, Boachie-Mensah M, Chattha A, Reid RR. PMID: 33496521.
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    29. Association of a New Trauma Center With Racial, Ethnic, and Socioeconomic Disparities in Access to Trauma Care. JAMA Surgery. 2020. Abbasi AB, Dumanian J, Okum S, Nwaudo D, Lee D, Prakash P, Bendix P. View Publication.
    30. Policy Changes and Child Blood Lead Levels by Age 2 Years for Children Born in Illinois, 2001-2014. Am J Public Health. 2020 05; 110(5):734-740. Abbasi A, Pals B, Gazze L. PMID: 32191520; PMCID: PMC7144441.
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    31. Opioid Prescribing Patterns Before Fatal Opioid Overdose. Am J Prev Med. 2020 02; 58(2):250-253. Abbasi AB, Salisbury-Afshar E, Berberet CE, Layden JE, Pho MT. PMID: 31959322; PMCID: PMC6986381.
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    32. Mutational load causes stochastic evolutionary outcomes in acute RNA viral infection. Virus Evol. 2019 Jan; 5(1):vez008. Zhao L, Abbasi AB, Illingworth CJR. PMID: 31024738; PMCID: PMC6476161.
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    33. Health Care Utilization of Opioid Overdose Decedents with No Opioid Analgesic Prescription History. J Urban Health. 2019 02; 96(1):38-48. Abbasi AB, Salisbury-Afshar E, Jovanov D, Berberet C, Arunkumar P, Aks SE, Layden JE, Pho MT. PMID: 30607879; PMCID: PMC6391294.
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