Personal Information

Name
John Arthur Donovan, MD

Business Address
USC Liver Transplant Program and Center for Liver Disease
1510 San Pablo Street
Suite 200
Los Angeles CA 90033-4612

Phone: (323) 442-5908
Fax: (323) 442-5721

• State of California
• DEA

• Board Certification
  • American Board of Internal Medicine
    • Diplomat in Internal Medicine 1992
    • Diplomat in Gastroenterology 1995

• University of Southern California
  Bachelor of Science, Biology 1979

• University of Alabama Birmingham
  School of Medicine MD., 1983

• University of Florida College of Medicine
  Internship in General Surgery
  Shand's Teaching Hospital
  Gainesville, FL
  1983 - 1984

• University of Southern California School of Medicine
  Residency in General Surgery (2nd yr.)
  Los Angeles County - U.S.C. Medical Center
  Los Angeles, California
  1984 - 1985

• University of Southern California School of Medicine
  Residency in Urology
  Los Angeles County - U.S.C. Medical Center
  Los Angeles, CA
  1985 - 198

• University of Southern California School of Medicine
  Residency in Anesthesiology
  Los Angeles County - U.S.C. Medical Center
  Los Angeles, CA
  1988 - 1989

• Huntington Memorial Hospital
  Residency in Internal Medicine
  Pasadena, CA
  1989 - 1992

Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Los Angeles, CA
1992 - 1995

Fellow of the Year
Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center
1995

• American Gastroenterology Association
• American College of Gastroenterology
• International Liver Transplantation Society

• Co-Chaiperson, Regional Liver Transplantation Selection Committee
  Southern California Permanente Medical Group

• Member, Liver Transplant Clinical Management Subcommittee
  National Transplant Network
  Kaiser Permanente

• Member, Tertiary Care Council
  Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center

• Member, Rebuild L.A. (hospital re-construction project)
  Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center

• Member, Medical Advisory Committee
  American Liver Foundation
  Los Angeles Chapter

Multi-center Randomized Trial of 15mcg Interferon Infergen (Interferon Alfacon-1) Administered Daily vs. thrice Weekly in patients With Chronic hepatitis C Who Did Not Respond to interferon Therapy

Co-investigator

Funded by Amgen

• "A Rapid Quantitative Technique for the Detection of Microsporidia in Stool of Patients with Acquired immune Deficiency Syndrome", Xth World Congress of Gastroenterology, Los Angeles, CA. 1994

• "Comparison of Fluorescence and Standard Light Microscopy Techniques for the Detection of Microsporidia in Stool of Patients with AIDS and Chronic Diarrhea", Digestive Disease Week, San Diego, CA, 1995

• Donovan AJ, Berne TV, Donovan JA. Perforated duodenal ulcer: an alternative therapeutic plan. Arch Surg 1998 133(11)1166-71

• Rosen H, Martin P, Donovan J, Melenik J, Rudich S, Imagawa D, Kinkhabwala M, Seu P, Busittil R, Shackleton C. Significance of early aminotransferase elevation after liver transplantation. Transplantation 1998 65(1) 68-72

• Donovan JA, Simmons FA, Esrason KT, Jamehdor M, Busittil RW, Novak JM, Grody WW. Donor origin of a posttransplant liver allograft malignancy identified by fluorescent in situ hybridization for the Y chromosome and DNA genotyping. Transplantation 1997 63(1) 80-84

• Conteas C, Sowerby T, Berlin G, Dahlan F, Porchen R, Donovan J, LaRiviere M, Orenstein J. Fluorescence techniques for diagnosing intestinal Microsporidiosis in stool, enteric fluid, and biopsy specimens from acquired immune deficiency syndrome patients with chronic diarrhea. Arch Path Lab Med 1996 120(9) 847-853

• Rosen H, Shackleton C, Martin P, Donovan J, Imagawa D, Kinkhabwala M, Seu P, Goldstein L, Busittul R. Impact of preservation injury on long term graft function, biliary complications and chronic rejection. Hepatology 1995 22(4) sup. 207A

• Fullerton S, Conteas C, Donovan J, Nabilof B, Mayer E. Measuring severity of illness for patients with functional bowel disease using sensory and affective verbal descriptor rating scales. Gastro 1995 108(4) A603

• Conteas C, Berlin G, Sowerby T, Donovan J. Fluorescence microscopic screening of enteric pathogens in the chronic diarrhea of AIDS: a new diagnostic technique. Gastro 1995 108(4) A801

• Donovan J, Conteas C, Berlin G, Sowerby T. Comparison of fluorescence and light microscopy for diagnosis of Microsporidia in stool of patients with AIDS and chronic diarrhea. Gastro 1995 108(4) A811

• Conteas C, Berlin G, Porchen R, Sowerby T, Donovan J, LaRiviere M. Demonstration of Microsporidia in intestinal tissues and fluid using a new epiflourescence microscopic technique. Amer j Gastro 1994 89(9) 1704

• Donovan J, Sowerby T, Conteas C, Berlin G. Microsporidium and cryptosporidium coinfection in a patient with AIDS; documentation by light microscopy using a modified trichrome stain. Amer J Gastro 1994 89(9) 1727

• Sowerby T, Donovan J, Berlin G, LaRiviere M, Conteas C. Influence of CD4 and CD8 counts and CD4:CD* ratios on the prevalence of intestinal Microsporidiosis in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Gastro 1994 106(4) A777

• Conteas C, Berlin G, LaRiviere M, Donovan J, Sowerby T. A rapid quantitative technique for the determination of Microsporidium in stool of patients with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Gastro 1994 106(4) A668

• Jang, Lee-Chang, Rafik Ghobrial, Steven Colquhoun, Douglas Farmer, Walid Arnout, Tsi-Linng Fong, Hasan Yerzig, Leonard Goldstein, Paul martin, John Vierling, Karl Esrason, John Donovan, Ronald Busuttil. Fourteen year outcome of liver transplantation for hepatitis B: new era with prophylaxis

• Pruthi J, Esrason K, Donovan J, Medkiff-Mansukani K, Parras M, Fong T. Causes of late death in liver transplant recipients. Hepatology 2000 32(4) 254A

Sowerby T, Conteas C, Berlin G, Donovan J. Microsporidiosis in patients with relatively preserved CD4 counts. AIDS 1995 9; 975