Insurance Accepted: 6 Degrees - Transplant; 90 Degree Benefits - Commercial; Administrative Concepts - Commercial; Aetna - Commercial/Exchange (IFP); Aetna - PPO/EPO/HMO/MC Advantage; Aetna - Smart Care EPO; Aetna - Transplant ONLY; Aetna Better Health - Medicaid-CHIP; Aetna Better Health - Medicaid-STAR; Aetne Health - Medicare-Medicaid Dual Preferred (HMO D-SNP); Allegiance - Universal Benefits Consortium; Allied Benefit Systems; Allwell - Medicare Advantage; Ambetter - Superior HealthPlan Commercial/Exchange; Ancira Enterprises; Ancira Enterprises - Direct Employer; Benefit Administrative Systems; Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas - Exchange (BlueAdvantage); Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas - HMO/PPO; Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas - HPN/EPO (Narrow Network); Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas - Medicaid-STAR; Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas - Medicare Advantage HMO; Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas - Medicare Advantage PPO; Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas - Narrow HMO (Blue Essentials); Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas - Narrow HMO (Blue Premier); Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas - Traditional; Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas - Transplant Programs; Care Improvement Plus - Medicare Advantage-SNP; Century Healthcare - Commercial; CHAMPVA - Governmental; Cigna - Employer Specific Network - Employees & Dependents Only; Cigna - United Benefits Consortium; Cigna HealthSpring - Medicare Advantage - WellMed; Community First Health Plans - HMO/Exchange (EPO); Community First Health Plans - Medicaid-CHIP; Community First Health Plans - Medicaid-CHIP Perinate; Community First Health Plans - Medicaid-STAR; Community First Health Plans - Medicaid-STAR Kids; Community First Health Plans - Medicare Advantage HMO; Coventry - HMO/PPO; Coventry - Work Comp / Auto; Curative - Commercial; Driscoll Health Plan - Medicaid; Driscoll Health Plan - Medicaid-All; EBSO - TPA; El Paso First - Medicaid-CHIP; El Paso First - Medicaid-STAR; Entrust - TPA; First Health - Commercial PPO; FirstCare (Part of Scott & White Health Plans) - Medicaid-STAR; Galaxy Health Network - Commercial; Gilsbar - Commercial; Group and Pension Administrators - GPA; Healthsmart - Accel; Healthsmart - Commercial PPO; Healthsmart - HPO/POS; HMA LLC - Commercial; Humana - Commercial Behavioral Health; Humana - Exchange (HMOx); Humana - HMO/PPO/Behavioral Health; Humana - Medicare Advantage Behavioral Health; Humana - Medicare Advantage HMO (Gold); Humana - Medicare Advantage PPO; Humana - National Transplant ONLY Network; Humana Military - TRICARE; Imagine 360 - Commercial; Imperial Health - Commercial/Exchange; Imperial Health Plan - Medicare Advantage; Independent Medical Systems (IMS) - PPO; Injury Management Organization - Workers Compensation; Interlink - Transplant; LifeTrac - Transplant; Magellan - Commercial and Medicaid Behavioral Health; Medicaid (Traditional) - Medicaid; Medicare (Traditional) - Medicare; Molina - Commercial Exchange; Molina - Medicaid-CHIP; Molina - Medicaid-CHIP Perinate; Molina - Medicaid-STAR; Molina - Medicare Advantage; Molina - Medicare-Medicaid Duals; MultiPlan - Wrap Network; OptumHealth - Transplant ONLY; Oscar - Commercial Exchange; Point Comfort Underwriters (PCU) - Refugee Medical Assistance; Point Comfort Underwriters (PCU) - Unaccompanied Children; Prime Health Services - Commercial PPO; Prime Health Services - Medicare Advantage; Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS) - Commercial PPO; ProCare Advantage - Medicare Advantage I-SNP; Provider Network of America (PNOA) - Commercial; Provider Partners Health Plan (PPHP) - Medicare Advantage I-SNP; SANA Benefits - Commercial; Scott & White Health Plan - HMO/PPO/Medicare Advantage; Superior HealthPlan - Medicaid-CHIP; Superior HealthPlan - Medicaid-CHIP Perinate; Superior HealthPlan - Medicaid-STAR; Superior HealthPlan - Medicaid-STAR Health (Foster Care); Superior HealthPlan - Medicaid-STAR Kids; Superior HealthPlan - Medicaid-STAR PLUS; Superior HealthPlan - Medicare Advantage (Allwell); Superior HealthPlan - Medicare-Medicaid Duals (Allwell); Surest (UnitedHealthcare) - Commercial; Texas Independence Health Plan - Medicare Advantage I-SNP; Three Rivers Provider Network - PPO; Tokio Marine - Transplant; TriWest (via BCBSTX) - VA CCN Program; Trustmark Benefits - f/k/a CoreSource; UnitedHealthcare - EPO/HMO/POS; UnitedHealthcare - Medicaid-STAR; UnitedHealthcare - Medicaid-STAR Kids; UnitedHealthcare - Medicaid-STAR PLUS; UnitedHealthcare - Medicare Advantage; UnitedHealthcare - PPO; Universal Benefits Consortium - Brokerage Firm (School Districts); University of Incarnate Word (Gilsbar) - Direct Employer; Velocity National Provider Network - Commercial PPO; Velocity National Provider Network - Wrap Network; Veterans Administration - Governmental; WebTPA - Commercial; WellCare - Medicare Advantage; WellMed - Medicare Advantage; WellPoint (Gonzaba) - Medicare Advantage (TRANSPLANTS ONLY); WellPoint - Medicaid-CHIP; WellPoint - Medicaid-CHIP Perinate; WellPoint - Medicaid-STAR; WellPoint - Medicaid-STAR Kids; WellPoint - Medicaid-STAR PLUS; WellPoint - Medicare Advantage; WellPoint - Medicare-Medicaid Duals; Zelis - Commercial

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I specialize in liver and kidney transplantation, as well as surgery of the liver, bile duct and pancreas.
Career Highlights: I am a surgery associate professor, holder of the Valero President’s Distinguished Chair in Transplantation and the general surgery residency associate program director.
Special Interests: I have a special interest in pediatric transplantation.

Abstracts

Fritze DM, Englesbe MJ, Campbell DA. Oral Antibiotics to prevent surgical site infections following colon surgery Department of Surgery, University of Michigan; 2011 Jun. p. 141-153.

Journal Articles

Fritze DM, Li JY1, Chai B, Zhang W, Wu X, Zhang C, Xia Z, Patterson C, Mulholland MW. Ankyrin repeat and SOCS box containing protein 4 (Asb-4) colocalizes with insulin receptor substrate 4 (IRS4) in the hypothalamic neurons and mediates IRS4 degradation. BMC Neurosci 2011 Sep;12(95):1471-2202.

Other Publications

Fritze D, Konerman MA, Weinberg R, Sonnenday C, Sharma P. Incidence of risk assessment for adverse cardiovascular outcomes following liver transplantation: a systematic review Transplantation 2017 Mar.
Fritze D, Waits SA, Banerjee M, Zhang W, Kubus J, Englesbe MJ, Campbell DA Jr, Hendren S. Developing an argument for bundled interventions to reduce surgical site infection in colorectal surgery 2014 Apr;155(4):602-606.
Fritze D, Li JY, Chai B, Zhang W, Zhang C Mulholland MW. LGR4 and its Ligands, R-spondin 1 and R-spondin 3, regulate food intake in the hypothalamus of male rats Endocrinology 2014;155(2):429-440.
Fritze D, Scally CP, Reames BN, Teman NR, Minter RM, Gauger PG. Preserving operative volume in the setting of the 2011 ACGME duty hour regulations J surgical Education 2014 Jul;71(4):580-586.
Fritze D, Zhang W, Li JY, Chai B, Mulholland MW. Thrombin mediates vagal apoptosis and dysfunction in inflammatory bowel disease Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery 2014 Aug;18(8):1495-1406.
Fritze D. TNFa causes thrombin-dependent vagal neuron apoptosis in inflammatory bowel disease Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery 2014 Sep;18(9):1632-1641.
Fritze D, Chai B, Li JY, Zhang W, Xia Z, Mulholland MW. A novel transcript is up-regulated by fasting in the hypothalamus and enhances insulin signaling Journal of neuroendocrinology 2013;25(3):292-301.
Fritze D, Hendren S, Banerjee M, Kubus J, C Leary RK, Englesbe MJ, Campbell DA. Antibiotic Choice is independently associated with risk of surgical site infection after colectomy: a population-based study Annals of Surgery 2013;257(3):469-475.
Fritze D, Mulholland MW, Hussain H. Hepatic Cyst Disease Shackelford's Surgery of the Alimentary Tract 2013:1453-1463.
Fritze D, Krell RW, Girotti ME, Campbell DA, Hendren S. Hospital readmissions after colectomy: a population-based study Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2013;217(6):1070 1079.
Fritze D, Krell RW, Zhang C, Chai B, Li J, Mulholland MW. Modulation of food intake by mTOR signaling in the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus in male rats: focus on the ghrelin and nesfatin-1 Experimental Physiology 2013 Jan;98(12):1696-1704.
Fritze D, Dimick JB. Acute Cholecystitis Scenarios in Surgery: Decision Making and Operative Technique 2012 Jun:106-112.
Fritze D, Muholland MW. Bleeding Gastric Ulcer Scenarios in Surgery: Decision Making and Operative Technique 2012:72-76.
Fritze D, Xia ZF, Li JY, Chai B, Zhang W, Mulholland MW. Nesfatin-1 inhabits gastric acid secretion via a central vagal mechanism in rats American Journal of physiology 2012;303(5):G570-G577.
Fritze D, Mulholland MW, Zhang W. Protease-Activated Receptor-2 in the Enteric Nervous System Nova Biomedical 2012 Jun:117-131.
Fritze D, Mulholland MW, Zhang W. Thrombin and Vagal dysfunction in inflammatory bowel disease. Function and Pathophysiology 2012 Jun:235-246.
Fritze DM, Doherty GM. Surgical management of cervical lymph nodes in differentiated thyroid cancer Otolaryngologic clinics of North America 2010 Apr;43(2):285-300.
Fritze D, Barrett. Acute Cholecystitis Scenarios in Surgery: Decision making and Operative Technique 2nd ed.
Fritze D, Minter RM. Bleeding gastric ulcer.
Fritze D, Cigarroa FG. Management of Choledochal cysts in adults Hepato- pancreato-biliary and transplant surgery: practical management and dilemmas.

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