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Kristina R. Chacko, M.D.

Kristina R. Chacko

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine (Hepatology)

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866.633.8255929.263.3959

Montefiore Medical Center
1250 Waters Place
Bronx, NY 10461

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Kristina R. Chacko, MD, is an Assistant 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. 

Selected Publications

Chacko, K. R., & Reinus, J. (2016). Spectrum of alcoholic liver disease. Clinics in liver disease, 20(3), 419-427.

Fontana, R. J., Brown Jr, R. S., Moreno‐Zamora, A., Prieto, M., Joshi, S., Londoño, M. C., ... & Jafri, S. M. (2016). Daclatasvir combined with sofosbuvir or simeprevir in liver transplant recipients with severe recurrent hepatitis C infection. Liver Transplantation, 22(4), 446-458.

Chacko, K. R., & Reinus, J. (2016). Extrahepatic complications of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Clinics in liver disease, 20(2), 387-401.

Chacko, K. R., & Wolkoff, A. W. (2017). Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy: new diagnostic insights. Annals of hepatology, 16(2), 176-178.

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