Jason A. Wertheim MD PhD
Transplantation
Assistant Professor in Surgery-Organ Transplantation, Northwestern University Medical School
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3838 N Campbell AveBldg 2Tucson, AZ 85719
Phone+1 520-626-2729
Fax+1 312-695-9194
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Education & Training
Mass General Brigham/Massachusetts General HospitalResidency, Surgery, 2004 - 2009
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of PennsylvaniaClass of 2004
Certifications & Licensure
AZ State Medical License 2020 - 2026
CA State Medical License 2009 - 2026
IL State Medical License 2011 - 2026
American Board of Surgery Surgery
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Fellow (FACS) American College of Surgeons
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Revealing gait as a murine biomarker of injury, disease, and age with multivariate statistics and machine learning.Bilal A Naved, Shuling Han, Kyle M Koss, Mary J Kando, Jiao-Jing Wang
Scientific Reports. 2025-09-29 - 1 citationsPolyacrylamide Hydrogels with Reversibly Photocontrolled Stiffness for 2D Mechanobiology.Eric C Abenojar, Ekta Minocha, Emmanuel A Garcia Villatoro, Viraj C Kirinda, Ashwani Kumar Gupta
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 2025-06-18 - 3 citationsA kidney organoid-based readout to assess disease activity in primary and recurrent focal segmental glomerulosclerosis.Ashwani Kumar Gupta, Ekta Minocha, Kyle M Koss, Bilal A Naved, Luisa Safar-Boueri
Kidney International. 2025-05-01
Press Mentions
Bioengineered Organs & Kidney Diseases with Susan Quaggin, MDJuly 25th, 2019
Grow Your Own Kidney? Chicago Researchers Are Getting CloserFebruary 13th, 2019
Q&A with Susan Quaggin, MD, Director of Feinberg’s New $5.8 Million Kidney CenterDecember 3rd, 2018- Join now to see all
Grant Support
- K12 Program at the Southwest Center for Advancing Clinical and Translational Innovation (SW CACTI)UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIS CTR2025–2030
- Southern Arizona VA Health Care System Collaborative & Longitudinal Summer Training & Education in Research for Medical Students (SAVAHCS-CLUSTER-MD)SOUTHERN ARIZONA VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM2024–2029
- Ex-vivo bioengineered technology to unravel dysfunction due to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA2023–2027
- Validation of Patient-Specific, iPSC-based In Vitro Liver SystemSOUTHERN ARIZONA VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM2024–2026
- Interdisciplinary Training of Future Physician ScientistsUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA2021–2026
- Arizona Technology Development and Clinical Education Program for Students in Kidney Health (ADVANCE Kidney Health)UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA2021–2026
- Interdisciplinary Training of Future Physician ScientistsUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA2021–2026
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