Thomas Bak, MD

Publications

• Kalaria R, Maestre G, Mahinrad S, Acosta DM, Akinyemi RO, Alladi S, Allegri RF, Arshad F, Babalola DO, Baiyewu O, Bak TH, Bellaj T, Brodie-Mends DK, Carrillo MC, Celestin KK, Damasceno A, de Silva RK, de Silva R, Djibuti M, Dreyer AJ, Ellajosyula R, Farombi TH, Friedland RP, Garza N, Gbessemehlan A, Georgiou EE, Govia I, Grinberg LT, Guerchet M, Gugssa SA, Gumikiriza-Onoria JL, Hogervorst E, Hornberger M, Ibanez A, Ihara M, Issac TG, Jönsson L, Karanja WM, Lee JH, Leroi I, Livingston G, Manes FF, Mbakile-Mahlanza L, Miller BL, Musyimi CW, Mutiso VN, Nakasujja N, Ndetei DM, Nightingale S, Novotni G, Nyamayaro P, Nyame S, Ogeng'o JA, Ogunniyi A, de Oliveira MO, Okubadejo NU, Orrell M, Paddick SM, Pericak-Vance MA, Pirtosek Z, Potocnik FCV, Raman R, Rizig M, Rosselli M, Salokhiddinov M, Satizabal CL, Sepulveda-Falla D, Seshadri S, Sexton CE, Skoog I, George-Hyslop PHS, Suemoto CK, Thapa P, Udeh-Momoh CT, Valcour V, Vance JM, Varghese M, Vera JH, Walker RW, Zetterberg H, Zewde YZ, Ismail O. The 2022 symposium on dementia and brain aging in low- and middle-income countries: Highlights on research, diagnosis, care, and impact. Alzheimers Dement. 2024 Jun;20(6):4290-4314. PubMed PMID: 38696263
• Tee BL, Li-Ying LK, Chen TF, Yan CT, Tsoh J, Chan AL, Wong A, Lo RY, Lu CJ, Sun Y, Wang PN, Lee Y, Chiu MJ, Allen IE, Battistella G, Bak TH, Chuang YC, García AM, Gorno-Tempini ML. More than a piece of cake: Noun classifier processing in primary progressive aphasia. Alzheimers Dement. 2024 Apr;20(4):2353-2363. PubMed PMID: 38284802
• Defining clinical criteria for guidance on the utilization and duration of post-anesthesia care unit extended stay following liver transplantation Katherine Klingenberg, MMS, PA-C, Hunter Moore, MD, PhD, James Pomposelli, MD, PhD, Michael Wachs, MD, Thomas Bak, MD, Kendra Conzen, MD, Megan Adams, MD, Thomas Pshak, MD, Yanik Bababekov, MD, Elizabeth Pomfret, MD, PhD, Trevor Nydam, MD
• Abernathy's Surgical Secrets 7th ed Liver Transplantation
• Abernathy's Surgical Secrets Kidney/Pancreas Transplantation
• Donor preoperative oxygen delivery and post-extubation hypoxia impact donation after circulatory death hypoxic cholangiopathy
• Impact of Donor Post-Extubation O2 Delivery on Recipient Hypoxic Cholangiopathy in Donation after Circulatory Death Liver Transplantation: the University of Colorado Experience.
• Transplant Proc. 2013 Nov;45(9):3325-8
• 126. Zimmerman MA, Kelly Ma, Campsen J, Mandell MS, Wachs M, Bak T, Skibba A, Lancaster B, Kam I. The influence of OKT3 therapy on hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence following liver transplantation. Clin Transplant 2010 Jul;24(4):E103-8.
• Surgical Secrets-Kidney/Pancreas Transplant
• Surgical Secrets Liver Transplantation
• Truong R, Moore H, Bak T, et al. Choledochoduodenostomy continues to be a safe alternative for biliary reconstruction in deceased-donor liver transplantation. American Journal of Surgery
• ATC 2023 San Diego, CA 6/3-7/2023 Modernizing the Concept of Donor Risk Index

Professional Memberships

• American Society of Transplant Surgeons, Member
• International Liver Transplant Society, Member
• European Renal Association, Member
• International Hepatobilibary Association, Member
• Denver Academy of Surgery, Member

Practice Locations

UCHealth Transplant Surgery - Anschutz Medical Campus
1635 Aurora Ct
7th Floor
Aurora, CO 80045
720-848-0833

Hospital Affiliation

• University of Colorado Hospital

Specialty Information

Specialties

• Surgery, Board Certification (1999)

Conditions & Treatments

• Surgery - Kidney Transplant Surgery
• Surgery - Liver Transplant Surgery
• Surgery - Pancreas Transplant Surgery
• Digestive System - Biliary Surgery
• Digestive System
• Surgery
• Surgery - Living Liver Donation
• Surgery - Living Kidney Donation