Kristina R. Chacko
Expertise in
18
conditions

Dr. Kristina R. Chacko

Transplant Surgery
Montefiore Einstein
Montefiore-Einstein Center For Transplantation
111 East 210th Street, Rosenthal 2nd Floor, 
Bronx, NY 

Expertise in
18
conditions
Montefiore Einstein
Montefiore-Einstein Center For Transplantation
111 East 210th Street, Rosenthal 2nd Floor, 
Bronx, NY 
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Overview

Kristina R. Chacko, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, NY.  She joined the Einstein-Montefiore Liver Center in 2013 after completing a fellowship in Transplant Hepatology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, NY.  She received her bachelor of arts in philosophy at Boston College and attended medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX.  She completed her internal medicine residency at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, and gastroenterology fellowship at New York University.  Her clinical and research interests include the diagnosis and management of alcoholic hepatitis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, autoimmune liver diseases, and liver transplantation.  As the program director of the ACGME-accredited transplant hepatology fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center, she is directly involved in the development and execution of the hepatology curriculum for gastroenterology and hepatology fellows.

Dr. Chacko is highly rated in 18 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Hepatitis, Hepatitis A, Visceromegaly, Hepatitis C, and Liver Transplant.

Her clinical research consists of co-authoring 18 peer reviewed articles and participating in 1 clinical trial. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years.

Graduate Institution
Baylor College Of Medicine
Residency
Emory University Hospital
Specialties
Transplant Surgery
Licenses
Internal Medicine in NY
Fellowships
New York University Medical Center
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Hospital Affiliations
Montefiore Medical Center
Nyack Hospital
Languages Spoken
English
Gender
Female

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Locations

Montefiore-Einstein Center for Transplantation
111 East 210th Street, Rosenthal 2nd Floor, Bronx, NY 10467
Call: 877-287-3536
Other Locations
Highland Medical
2 Crosfield Avenue, Suite 202, West Nyack, NY 10994
Call: 877-287-3536
Montefiore-Einstein Center for Transplantation
555 Taxter Road, Elmsford, NY 10523
Call: 877-287-3536
Montefiore Department of Hepatology
1250 Waters Place- Tower II, 11th Floor, Bronx, NY 10461
Call: 888-795-4837
Hutchinson Tower II
1250 Waters Place- Tower II, 11th Floor, Bronx, NY 10461
Call: 888-795-4837

Additional Areas of Focus

Dr. Chacko has provided the following conditions as areas of focus. Please note that we may not have enough data to validate their experience in some of these conditions.

Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH)

Clinical Research

Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.


1 Clinical Trials

A Randomized, Open-Label, Multicenter, Controlled, Pivotal Study to Assess Safety and Efficacy of ELAD in Subjects With Alcohol-Induced Liver Decompensation (AILD)
A Randomized, Open-Label, Multicenter, Controlled, Pivotal Study to Assess Safety and Efficacy of ELAD in Subjects With Alcohol-Induced Liver Decompensation (AILD)
Enrollment Status: Terminated
Publish Date: January 25, 2019
Intervention Type: Biological, Other
Study Phase: Phase 3

18 Total Publications

Moderate alcohol-associated hepatitis: A real-world multicenter study.
Moderate alcohol-associated hepatitis: A real-world multicenter study.
Journal: Hepatology communications
Published: November 25, 2024
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