Hidekazu Tsukamoto

  • Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases, and Professor of Pathology, Keck School of MedicineDirector, Research Center for Alcoholic Liver and Pancreatic DiseasesAssociate Director, Liver Disease Research Center
Office: (323) 442-5107

Expertise Summary

Expert in gastrointestinal & liver diseases

Expertise

  • mechanisms of liver fibrosis and alcoholic liver disease
  • oxidative stress and liver disease
  • cytokines and liver disease
  • molecular and cellular biology of hepatic stellate cells and macrophages
  • hepatology (study and treatment of liver diseases)

Languages

  • Japanese

Additional Information

  • Member, VA Merit Review Board for Gastroenterology
  • Editorial Board Member, Hepatology and American Journal of Physiology: Gastrointestinal Physiology