Rishi Kothari, MD

Assistant Clinical Professor
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Biography: 

Liver transplant and general anesthesiologist. Clinical interests in short and medium term outcomes after liver and kidney transplantation. Primary non-clinical interests in clinical informatics and EHR facilitation of clinical research.

BS in Computer Science with extensive experience in clinical database design, data mining (SQL) and basic data analysis (R). Certified by Epic in Clinical Database Models with 3 years experience in data extraction from Epic Clarity Database. At UCSF, developed and maintains the Transplant Outcomes in Anesthesia Database (TOAD), a scalable perioperative data warehouse for liver and kidney transplantation at UCSF used for quality improvement and academic research. Interests in creation of perioperative data warehouses containing validated data to facilitate operational, logistical, and clinical quality improvement and academic research interests on department-wide scale. Goals to utilize this database as a platform for clinical decision support employing state of the art statistical and machine learning techniques.

Publications: 
Braun HJ, Mello A, Kothari R, Ku E, Yilma M, Tavakol M, Zhang L, Niemann CU, Ascher NL, Adelmann D. Expedited evaluation for liver transplantation: A critical look at processes and outcomes. Clin Transplant. 2021 Nov 17; e14539.
Kothari R, Tolles J, Adelmann D, Lewis RJ, Malinoski DJ, Niemann CU. Organ donor management goals and delayed graft function in adult kidney transplant recipients. Clin Transplant. 2022 Feb; 36(2):e14528.
Bishara AM, Lituiev DS, Adelmann D, Kothari RP, Malinoski DJ, Nudel JD, Sally MB, Hirose R, Hadley DD, Niemann CU. Machine Learning Prediction of Liver Allograft Utilization From Deceased Organ Donors Using the National Donor Management Goals Registry. Transplant Direct. 2021 Oct; 7(10):e771.
Hannon V, Kothari RP, Zhang L, Bokoch MP, Hill R, Roll GR, Mello A, Feiner JR, Liu KD, Niemann CU, Adelmann D. The Association Between Vena Cava Implantation Technique and Acute Kidney Injury After Liver Transplantation. Transplantation. 2020 11; 104(11):e308-e316.
Adelmann D, Roll GR, Kothari R, Syed S, Burdine LJ, Tavakol M, Niemann CU. The Impact of Deceased Donor Liver Extraction Time on Early Allograft Function in Adult Liver Transplant Recipients. Transplantation. 2018 Nov; 102(11):e466-e471.
Heller JA, Kothari R, Lin HM, Levin MA, Weiner M. Surgery Start Time Does Not Impact Outcome in Elective Cardiac Surgery. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2017 Feb; 31(1):32-36.
Boone MD, Massa J, Mueller A, Jinadasa SP, Lee J, Kothari R, Scott DJ, Callahan J, Celi LA, Hacker MR. The organizational structure of an intensive care unit influences treatment of hypotension among critically ill patients: A retrospective cohort study. J Crit Care. 2016 06; 33:14-8.
Hsu DJ, Feng M, Kothari R, Zhou H, Chen KP, Celi LA. The Association Between Indwelling Arterial Catheters and Mortality in Hemodynamically Stable Patients With Respiratory Failure: A Propensity Score Analysis. Chest. 2015 Dec; 148(6):1470-1476.
Khelemsky Y, Kothari R, Campbell N, Farnad S. Incidence and Demographics of Post-Operative Naloxone Administration: A 13-Year Experience at a Major Tertiary Teaching Institution. Pain Physician. 2015 Sep-Oct; 18(5):E827-9.
Lee J, Kothari R, Ladapo JA, Scott DJ, Celi LA. Interrogating a clinical database to study treatment of hypotension in the critically ill. BMJ Open. 2012; 2(3).
Honors and Awards: 
Outstanding Resident Teaching, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 2017
Valedictorian, School of Engineering, Computer Science, University of Connecticut, 2005-2009