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Transplant Surgery Fellow, UCLA

General and transplant surgery

Julian Horwitz, MD

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Julian Horwitz is a transplant surgery fellow at UCLA. He grew up in a small town outside of Boston.

Julian received his MD from the NYU School of Medicine and completed a general surgery residency at the Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC. During residency, Julian spent two years as a post-doctoral research fellow in a translational transplant immunology lab at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, focusing on novel approaches to achieving immune tolerance.

Julian is an avid skier and he loves spending time with his wife and dog, Peanut.

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HEALTHCARE ADVANCEMENT YOU HOPE TO SEE IN YOUR LIFETIME

The foremost problem in the field of transplantation is the massive discrepancy between the number of patients on organ waiting lists (demand) versus the supply of organs for transplantation from deceased and living donors. I hope to see the transplant community overcome the supply issue through advances in the fields of xenotransplantation and bioengineered organs.

MOST INFLUENTIAL CONTENT READ LAST YEAR

'10% Happier' by Dan Harris. A pragmatic and entertaining introduction to mindfulness and meditation. Within clinical medicine, mindfulness and wellness initiatives are being increasingly emphasized to address rising levels of physician burnout.

GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT

Being awarded the Arthur H. Aufses Jr., MD Prize in Surgery award (named after the prior Mount Sinai surgery chair) at my residency graduation for clinical excellence and leadership.