GeorgeSLipkowitzMD

General Surgery • Springfield, MA

Transplantation

Associate Professor, Surgery, Tufts Medical Center

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Office
100 Wason Ave Ste 200
Western New England Renal And Trans
Springfield, MA 01107
Phone+1 413-733-9666

Fax+1 413-750-3432
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Education & Training

SUNY Downstate Health Sciences UniversityFellowship, Transplantation, 1985 - 1986
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences UniversityResidency, Surgery, 1980 - 1986
State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of MedicineClass of 1980

Certifications & Licensure

NY State Medical License 1981 - Present
MA State Medical License 1988 - 2025
CT State Medical License 1994 - 2020
NJ State Medical License 1988 - 1991
American Board of Surgery Surgery

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

America's Top Doctors Castle Connolly 2015,2016,2017, 2002-2014
Fellow (FACS) American College of Surgeons

Clinical Trials

Study Comparing Lutonix AV Drug Coated Balloon vs Standard Balloon for Treatment of Dysfunctional AV Fistulae Start of enrollment: 2015 Jun 01
Completed
Phase 3

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Characterizing the risk of human leukocyte antigen-incompatible living donor kidney transplantation in older recipients.
Jane J Long, Jennifer D Motter, Kyle R Jackson, Jennifer Chen, Babak J Orandi, Robert A Montgomery, Mark D Stegall, Stanley C Jordan, Enrico Benedetti, Ty B Dunn, Lloy...> ;American Journal of Transplantation. 2023 Dec 1
10 citations
Delayed graft function and acute rejection following HLA-incompatible living donor kidney transplantation
Jennifer D. Motter, Kyle R. Jackson, Jane J. Long, Madeleine M. Waldram, Babak J. Orandi, Robert A. Montgomery, Mark D. Stegall, Stanley C. Jordan, Enrico Benedetti, T...> ;American Journal of Transplantation. 2021 Feb 27
2 citations
Center-level Variation in HLA-incompatible Living Donor Kidney Transplantation Outcomes.
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1 citations
Deceased donors: Defining drug-related deaths.
Kevin Cmunt, Gabriel M. Danovitch, Francis L. Delmonico, Francis Fynn-Thompson, Alexandra K. Glazier, Jill Grandas, Susan Gunderson, Martin D. Jendrisak, H. Keith John...> ;Clinical Transplantation. 2020 Feb 20
9 citations
Hospital readmissions following HLA-incompatible live donor kidney transplantation: A multi-center study
Babak J. Orandi, Xun Luo, Elizabeth A. King, Jacqueline Garonzik-Wang, Sunjae Bae, Robert A. Montgomery, Mark D. Stegall, Stanley C. Jordan, Jose Oberholzer, Ty B. Dun...> ;American Journal of Transplantation. 2018 Mar 1
16 citations
The Incremental Cost of Incompatible Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: A National Cohort Analysis.
David A. Axelrod, Krista L. Lentine, Mark A. Schnitzler, Xun Luo, Huiling Xiao, Babak J. Orandi, Allan B. Massie, Jacqueline Garonzik-Wang, Mark D. Stegall, Stanley C....> ;American Journal of Transplantation. 2017 Dec 1
55 citations
Prospective, Randomized, Concurrently-Controlled Study of a Stent Graft versus Balloon Angioplasty for Treatment of Arteriovenous Access Graft Stenosis: 2-Year Results...
Ziv J Haskal, Theodore F. Saad, Jeffery G. Hoggard, Randy I. Cooper, George S. Lipkowitz, Anwar Gerges, John Ross, Timothy A. Pflederer, Samuel W. Mietling> ;Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology. 2016 Aug 1
228 citations
Survival Benefit with Kidney Transplants from HLA-Incompatible Live Donors
Babak J. Orandi, Xun Luo, Allan B. Massie, J. M. Garonzik-Wang, Bonnie E. Lonze, Rizwan Ahmed, K. J. Van Arendonk, Mark D. Stegall, Stanley C. Jordan, Jose Oberholzer,...> ;The New England Journal of Medicine. 2016 Mar 9
8 citations
Effects of Prolonged Ethanol Lock Exposure to Carbothane- and Silicone-based Hemodialysis Catheters: A 26-week Study:
Daniel Landry, Randa A Jaber, Nandheesha Hanumanthappa, George S. Lipkowitz, Michael H. O'Shea, Harry Bermudez, Adam P. Hathorne, Gregory Braden> ;The Journal of Vascular Access. 2015 May 29
138 citations
Quantifying the risk of incompatible kidney transplantation: a multicenter study.
Babak J. Orandi, Jacqueline Garonzik-Wang, Allan B. Massie, Andrea A. Zachary, J. R. Montgomery, K. J. Van Arendonk, Mark D. Stegall, Stanley C. Jordan, Jose Oberholze...> ;American Journal of Transplantation. 2014 Jul 1
1 citations
Predictors of liver donation without kidney recovery in a cohort of expanded criteria donors: identifying opportunities to improve expanded criteria donor kidney utili...
Sarah L. White, Alan B. Leichtman, Kevin E. O’Connor, George S. Lipkowitz, R. Pietroski, Jeffrey S. Stoff, Richard S. Luskin, J. Belcher, Kevin R. Meyer, Robert M. Mer...> ;Transplantation Proceedings. 2012 Sep 1
26 citations
Clinical results of an organ procurement organization effort to increase utilization of donors after cardiac death.
James F. Whiting, Francis L. Delmonico, Paul E. Morrissey, Giacomo Basadonna, Scott V. Johnson, W. David Lewis, Richard J. Rohrer, Kevin O'Connor, James Bradley, Tammy...> ;Transplantation. 2006 May 27
35 citations
A comparison of cryopreserved vein allografts and prosthetic grafts for hemodialysis access
Robert L. Madden, George S. Lipkowitz, Barry J. Browne, Alexander Kurbanov> ;Annals of Vascular Surgery. 2005 Aug 2
94 citations
Donor Kidney Exchanges
Francis L. Delmonico, Paul E. Morrissey, George S. Lipkowitz, Jeffrey S. Stoff, Jonathan Himmelfarb, William E. Harmon, Martha Pavlakis, Helen Mah, Jane Goguen, Richar...> ;American Journal of Transplantation. 2004 Oct 1
34 citations
Experience with cryopreserved cadaveric femoral vein allografts used for hemodialysis access.
Robert L. Madden, George S. Lipkowitz, Barry J. Browne, Alexander Kurbanov> ;Annals of Vascular Surgery. 2004 Jul 1
8 citations
Pancreatitis and duodenitis from sarcoidosis: successful therapy with mycophenolate mofetil.
Andrew S O'Connor, Farhad Navab, Michael J. Germain, Jonathan K. Freeman, Jeffrey G. Mulhern, Michael H. O'Shea, George S. Lipkowitz, Robert L. Madden, Gregory Braden> ;Digestive Diseases and Sciences. 2003 Nov 1
25 citations
Decellularized cadaver vein allografts used for hemodialysis access do not cause allosensitization or preclude kidney transplantation.
Robert L. Madden, George S. Lipkowitz, Bernard Benedetto, Alexander Kurbanov, Maureen Miller, Laurine Bow> ;American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 2002 Dec 1
2 citations
Early small bowel obstruction complicating hand-assisted laparoscopic donor nephrectomy: an uncommon etiology.
Robert L. Madden, Alexander Kurbanov, Bernard Benedetto, George S. Lipkowitz> ;Surgical Endoscopy. 2002 Jul 1
A novel technique designed to minimize the morbidity of failure of arteriovenous access in hemodialysis patients
Bernard Benedetto, Robert L. Madden, Alexander Kurbanov, George S. Lipkowitz> ;Journal of Vascular Surgery. 2002 May 1
45 citations
Safety and efficacy of femoral-based hemodialysis access grafts.
David B. Tashjian, George S. Lipkowitz, Robert L. Madden, Jeffrey L. Kaufman, Sang Won Rhee, Joel Berman, Marc Norris, Jane McCall> ;Journal of Vascular Surgery. 2002 Apr 1
31 citations
Use of cryopreserved cadaveric vein allograft for hemodialysis access precludes kidney transplantation because of allosensitization
Bernard Benedetto, George S. Lipkowitz, Robert L. Madden, Alexander Kurbanov, David Hull, Maureen Miller, Laurine Bow> ;Journal of Vascular Surgery. 2001 Jul 1
29 citations
Adenine phosphoribosyltransferase deficiency and renal allograft dysfunction.
Bernard Benedetto, Robert L. Madden, Alexander Kurbanov, Gregory Braden, Jim Freeman, George S. Lipkowitz> ;American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 2001 May 1
7 citations
Transposed basilic vein fistula: a superior alternative to prosthetic grafts?
Bernard Benedetto, Robert L. Madden, Alexander Kurbanov, George S. Lipkowitz> ;Current Surgery. 2000 Sep 1
Intravenous pyelography is unnecessary for the preoperative evaluation of living renal donors
T Pane, Robert L. Madden, A Kurbanovl, George S. Lipkowitz> ;Current Surgery. 2000 Sep 1
33 citations
Completely Reversed Acute Rejection Is Not a Significant Risk Factor for the Development of Chronic Rejection in Renal Allograft Recipients
Robert L. Madden, Jeffrey G. Mulhern, Bernard Benedetto, Michael H. O'Shea, Michael J. Germain, Gregory Braden, Joan O'Shaughnessy, George S. Lipkowitz> ;Transplant International. 2000 Sep 1
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