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Temple University Hospital Welcomes Santiago J. Munoz, MD

We are pleased to announce that Santiago J. Munoz, MD, has joined Temple University Hospital as Medical Director of the Liver Transplant Program and as Director of Clinical Hepatology. He has also been appointed Professor of Medicine at the Temple University School of Medicine.

Dr. Munoz comes to Temple from the University of Pennsylvania Health System. He served previously as Medical Director of the Liver Transplant Program and Division Chief of Hepatology in the Department of Medicine at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia for thirteen years.

His major clinical and research interests include the care of patients with chronic and acute liver failure; medical aspects of liver transplantation; chronic hepatitis C and B; primary liver cancer (hepatoma); and fatty liver.

In addition to many other honors, Dr. Munoz recently was selected as a 2009 "Top Doctor" by Philadelphia Magazine.

Date Published: Thursday, March 26, 2009

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