Dr. Lai is a practicing general/transplant hepatologist and board-certified Physician Nutrition Specialist who specializes in caring for patients across the entire spectrum of liver disease, from diagnosis to liver transplant.
I have been at UCSF since 1975 and on the faculty of the Department of Medicine in the division of Nephrology since 1976 and have been involved with the transplant service in patient care and clinical trials with novel immunosuppression drugs
I am an Emeritus Professor of Biostatistics. I have expertise in the development and use of statistical methods for longitudinal data analysis, mixed models and latent class models. I am the co-author of the Wiley texts Variance Components and Generalized, Linear, and Mixed Models (now in its second edition), the Springer text Regression Methods in Biostatistics (now in its second edition) and the author of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics monograph, Generalized Linear Mixed Models.
Dr. Hsu has been Chief of the Division of Nephrology at UCSF Health since 2007. He currently holds the Dr. Robert W. Schrier Distinguished Professorship in Nephrology. His research spans acute, chronic and end-stage kidney disease and includes both observational studies and clinical trials.
