• Department of Pathology
  • Pathology Staff
  • Licenses and Accreditations
• Department of Laboratory Medicine
  • Laboratory Medicine Staff
• Affiliated Hospitals
  • Moffitt-Long
  • Mount Zion Medical Center
  • San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center
  • San Francisco General
• Faculty
  • Pathology
  • Laboratory Medicine

Research and Clinical Interests

My interests are primarily liver pathology, with emphasis on liver transplantation, fatty liver, hepatitis B and C, and dysplastic nodules. I actively participated in the World Congress’ Consensus Groups for the nomenclature of nodules in the liver and recommendations for terminology for hepatic allograft rejection. My studies on liver pathology in recurrent hepatitis C after transplantation and on the diagnosis of dysplastic nodules have been recognized internationally as leading papers on these topics. I was also involved in a recent evaluation and review of benign liver tumors in coordination with the International Liver Pathology Study Group and the Laennec Society.

Selected Publications

• Theise ND, Bodenheimer H, and Ferrell LD. Viral hepatitis. In: MacSween’s Pathology of the Liver, Burt AD, Portmann BC and Ferrell LD (eds), 5th Ed, Elsevier, Edinburgh, 2006.
• Ferrell L. and Giesinger K. Surgical Diseases of the Liver, In: Principles and Practice of Surgical and Cytopathology, Silverberg S, DeLellis R, Frable W, Wick M, and LiVolsi V (eds) 4th Ed, Churchill-Livingstone, pp 1527-47.
• Ferrell LD. Benign and malignant tumors of the liver. In: Surgical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract, Liver, Biliary Tract, and Pancreas, Odze R, Goldblum J, and Crawford J, (eds), 1st ed, W.B.Saunders, 2004, pp 999-1026. OK as is.
• Kakar S and Ferrell LD. Tumors of the Liver, Gallbladder, and Biliary Tree. In: Diagnostic Histopathology of Tumours, Fletcher CDM (ed), 3rd Ed, Churchill-Livinstone, in press. OK as is.
• Kleiner D, Brunt E, Van Natta M, Behling C, Contos M, Cummings O, Ferrell L, Liu Y, Torbenson M, Unalp-Arida A et al. Design and validation of a histological scoring system for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Hepatol, 41:1313-1321, 2005.

Selected Awards

• International Liver Pathology Study Group member
• Member of Council for US and Canadian Academy of Pathology, 2002-05
• Chair, Long Course in Liver and Pancreatic Pathology, USCAP, 2006
• Co-Editor, Pathology of the Liver, Burt AD, Portmann BC, Ferrell LD (eds) 5th edition
• Member of Editorial Board for Amer J Surg Pathology and Human Pathology
• UCSF teaching awards, 10 total, for resident and medical student teaching
• Numerous invited lectureships and visiting professorships

Additional Information

• Detailed CV

• Professor & Vice Chair of Clinical Services, Director of Surgical Pathology: Liver & GI Pathology
• Pathology
• Surgical Pathology

Specialty Area

Liver & GI Pathology

Contact Information

• linda.ferrell@ucsf.edu
• Phone: 415-353-1090
• Pager: 415-443-5414
• Fax: 415-353-1200

• Department of Pathology
• 505 Parnassus Ave., Rm. M590, Box 0102
• San Francisco, CA 94143

Other UCSF Organizational Association(s)

• UCSF Cancer Center

Hospital Affiliation(s)

• Mt. Zion
• Veterans Administration
• SF General