John Bucuvalas, MD
Enriched profileChief of the Division of Hepatology and Vice Chair of Faculty Affairs, Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
John Bucuvalas is Chief of the Division of Hepatology and Vice Chair of Faculty Affairs, Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. OpenAlex indexes 232 publications with 9,655 citations (h-index 53); ClinicalTrials.gov lists 1 registered study with this person as an investigator. By OpenAlex citation count, this profile ranks in the top 10% of Pediatric Gastroenterology profiles in the FindMyKOL directory.
Data verified 4 Nov 2026
Overview
Updated 4 Nov 2026
John Bucuvalas, M.D., is Chief of the Division of Hepatology and Vice Chair of Faculty Affairs, Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The public record shows 232 publications with 9,655 citations (h-index 53), centered on Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes, Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes, Pediatric Hepatobiliary Diseases and Treatments. It also documents an investigator role on 1 registered clinical trials, industry payments reported by 3 companies.
- Most recent indexed publication: 2026 · Hepatology communications
- Top research focus: Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes
- 1 registered trials on ClinicalTrials.gov
- Open Payments reporting from 3 companies
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Indications focus
from trials led + research topicsResearch focus
OpenAlex concept fingerprintDrugs & molecules
across trials, industry payments and publicationsWorks with
trial sponsors and companies reporting paymentsScholarship
indexed output and impact (OpenAlex)Publications indexed by OpenAlex, matched via ORCID. 24 in PubMed. Counts exclude supporting files.
Citations across these publications.
H-index from these publications. i10-index 139.
Clinical & industry
trials, payments and federal fundingFederally funded research awards.
Contact
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Practice address
Telephone
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Updated 4 Nov 2026
Listed as an investigator on 1 registered study on ClinicalTrials.gov. The most recent:
- Early Signals of the Transition From Immune Quiescence to Activation in the Liver Allograft Microenvironment and in the Circulation
Sponsor: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Industry payments
Updated 4 Nov 2026
3 companies reported payments to CMS in program years 2023–2025. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
- Mirum Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Program year202512 payments
- SOBI, INCProgram year20253 payments
- Mirum Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Program year202418 payments$11,075openpaymentsdata.cms.gov ↗
NIH funding
We didn't find any NIH-funded research awards for this person in NIH RePORTER. Why? →
Congress activity
Updated 4 Nov 2026
3 congress contributions (2012–2025) across AST, IMMUNOLOGY (AAI Annual Meeting) per OpenAlex. The most recent:
- Consensus Treatment Plans: A Novel Collaborative Effort to "Right Size" Immunosuppression After Pediatric Liver Transplant
American Transplant Congress
AST2025Co-author - Toward Zero Waitlist Mortality: A Mixed-Methods Review of Loss of Life While Awaiting Pediatric Liver Transplant
American Transplant Congress
AST2025Co-author - Calcineurin inhibitor (CNI) use in pediatric liver and kidney transplant (Tx) patients is associated with increased risk of obesity and impaired T-regulatory (Treg) cell function. (126.19)
IMMUNOLOGY (AAI Annual Meeting)
IMMUNOLOGY (AAI Annual Meeting)2012Co-author
Published abstracts are attributed via the same ORCID-disambiguated authorship as publications, so each is DOI-verified. Podium roles (invited talks, session chairs) and oral/poster type are added as program data is confirmed.
Publications
Updated 4 Nov 2026
Their five most recent publications, matched to their ORCID record and linked to PubMed.
- Health advocates to address social adversity in pediatric liver transplantation: A clinical trial.
Hepatology communications
Clinical Trial2026 - Prevalence of a Composite Outcome to Capture Child and Liver Health One Year After Pediatric Liver Transplantation in the Starzl Network.
Pediatric transplantation
Article2026 - Coproducing a health advocate intervention for pediatric liver transplant recipients using a human-centered design.
Liver transplantation
Article2025
Most-cited works
by citation count (OpenAlex)- 01
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- 04Fontan-Associated Liver DiseaseArticle271 citations2020
- 05
Network
Updated 4 Nov 2026
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Online presence
Updated 4 Nov 2026
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Background & recognition
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Education
degrees and training on record- verifiedCorroborated by FindMyKOL. We matched this record across two or more independent public sources (or a verified ORCID / NPI identifier bridge) before attributing it to this person.How we verify →profiles.icahn.mssm.edu ↗
- Board certified in pediatric gastroenterology
with a certificate of added qualification in transplant hepatology
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Editorial & leadership roles
journal and society appointments- Member
American Pediatric Society
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American Association for the Study of Liver Disease
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Secondary affiliations
appointments beyond the home institution- Director of Solid Organ Transplant Outreach
Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute (RMTI), Mount Sinai
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