Daniel Pratt

Daniel S. Pratt, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Clinical Director of Liver Transplantation, and Director of the Autoimmune and Cholestatic Liver Center at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dr. Pratt received his BA from Bowdoin College and his MD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed a residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Tufts-New England Medical Center. He served on the faculty of the Tufts University School of Medicine from 1995 until 2004.

Dr. Pratt was the Medical Director of the Liver Transplant Program and Clinical Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology at the Tufts Medical Center. He joined the faculty of the Harvard Medical School and the MGH Gastrointestinal Unit in 2004.

Dr. Pratt's particular area of clinical interest is autoimmune and cholestatic liver disease including autoimmune hepatitis, primary biliary cirrhosis, primary sclerosing cholangitis, and IgG4 associated liver disease. He also does work in cholangiocarcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, viral hepatitis, and cirrhosis/endstage liver disease. Dr. Pratt is the head of the PSC Registry at MGH.

Dr. Pratt has written extensively on liver disease and has been the recipient of numerous teaching awards.

Departments, Centers, & Programs:

• Cancer Center
  • Gastrointestinal Cancers
    
• Digestive Healthcare Center
  
  • Colorectal Center
    
  • Liver Center
    
• Transplant Center
  
  • Liver Transplant
    
• Gastroenterology
  

Clinical Interests:

• Abnormal Liver Function Tests
• Autoimmune hepatitis, Autoimmune liver disease
• Cholangiocarcinoma
• Cirrhosis
• Hepatitis B
• Hepatitis C
• Hepatocellular carcinoma
• Liver tumors
• Primary Biliary Cholangitis
• Primary sclerosing cholangitis

Medical Education

• MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
• Residency, Tufts Medical Center
• Fellowship, Tufts Medical Center

American Board Certifications

• Gastroenterology, American Board of Internal Medicine

Publications

Select Publications:

• Pratt DS. Liver Chemistry and Function Tests. In Feldman M, et al, editors. Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease, 9th Edition, 2010.
• Pratt DS. Primary Biliary Cirrhosis. In Greenberger N, et al, editors. Current Diagnosis and Treatment in Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Endoscopy, 2009.