Randolph Schaffer III, MD

Started Practice:

Joined Scripps Clinic Medical Group:

Scripps Clinic/Scripps Green Hospital Leadership Roles:

• Member, Scripps Cancer Center

• Member, Scripps Clinic Human Subjects Committee

• Member, Scripps Green Hospital Ethics Committee

Professional Societies:

• Fellow, American College of Surgeons

• Member, San Diego Chapter, American College of Surgeons

• Member, American Society of Transplant Surgeons

• Member, International Liver Transplantation Society

• Medical Advisory Committee, Lifesharing OPO

• Charter Member – San Diego Coalition on Donation

• Editorial Board, World Journal of Gastroenterology

Honors & Awards:

• Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Surgery Surgical Intern of the Year, 1996

• United States Surgical Corporation, Minimally Invasive Surgery – Research Fellowship Grant – July 1997

• Outstanding Clinical Presentation, Association of VA Surgeons Meeting – Seattle, WA, April, 2000

• Outstanding Resident Educator, Selected by the Baylor College of Medicine Medical Students, 2001

• Robert Baker, MD “Golden Apple Award” for Outstanding Teaching, University of Chicago, 2002

Clinical Interests Within Specialty:

• Living donor transplantation

• Living liver donor surgery

• Laparoscopic kidney donor surgery

Clinical Interests Outside Specialty:

• Management of complex surgical diseases of the liver, pancreas, gallbladder, and bile ducts

• Offering expertise in advanced laparoscopic and open surgical procedures

• Minimally-invasive and non-surgical approaches in selected patients