Liver, Biliary, & Pancreatic Disorders

The UVA Health System offers a full range of services for Liver, Biliary, & Pancreatic Disorders, and have special expertise in the following areas:

  • Benign Pancreatic Disease
  • Pancreatic and Bile Duct cancers
  • Pancreatic Transplantation
  • Liver Transplantation

UVA's Digestive Health Center has been named a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Digestive Research Center, one of only 16 in the country. Doctors at UVa have developed many innovative treatments and technologies, including:

  • Groundbreakding new treament of pancreatic disease using advanced endoscopic ultrasound technology, innovative surgical  and nutrition approaches.
  • Advanced minimally invasive treatment of bile duct conditions employing stenting, imaging, and endoscopic treatments available at only a few centers in the country
  • A UVa physician co-chairs the first study on living liver donors in the world.
  • Publishing the largest study in the world on outcomes for the treatment of benign pancreatic pseudocysts--a side effect of pancreatic disease.
  • UVA performed the region's first auxiliary liver transplant in a pediatric patient, one of only a handful of such surgeries performed in the world.

To learn more about Liver, Biliary, & Pancreatic Disorders, see the related links on the left. For a referral to a physician at UVA, call 434-924-DOCS (3627) or toll-free 800-251-3627.