Dr. Paul Joseph Pockros, MD

Started Practice: 1985
Joined Scripps Clinic Medical Group: 1985Scripps Clinic/Scripps Green Hospital Leadership Roles:
-Head, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Scripps Clinic, 1996-present
-Director, Center for Liver Diseases, Scripps Clinic, 1990-present
-Director, SC Liver Research Consortium, 1998-present
-Medical Director, Liver Transplantation Program, Scripps Clinic, 1990-1998
-Chairman, Liver Transplant Selection Committee, Scripps Clinic, 1990-1996
-Member, Board of Governors, Scripps Clinic Medical Group, 1999-2001
-Secretary/Treasurer, Medical Executive Committee, Green Hospital of Scripps Clinic, 1990-1992, 1992-1994
-Co-chairman, Cooperative Multi-Organ Transplant Program, Liver Section, Sharp Hospital/Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, 1990-91
-Clinical Laboratory and Pathology Committee, Green Hospital of Scripps Clinic, 1988-present
-Member-at-Large, Medical Executive Committee, Green Hospital of Scripps Clinic, 1988-1990 …
-Outpatient Quality Assurance Committee, Scripps Clinic, 1989-present Professional Societies:
-Governor, Southern California Region, American College of Gastroenterology; 1996-1998, 1998-2000, 2000-2002, 2006-2008.
-Member, National Affairs Committee, American College of Gastroenterology, 1996-1998, 1998-2000.
-Member, Research Committee, American College of Gastroenterology, 2000-2003
-Member, Practice Committee, American College of Gastroenterology, 2001-2004
-Member, Finance Committee, American Association for the Study of Liver Disease, 2001-2004.
-Member, Merit Review Subcommittee for the Clinical Research Program, Department of Veterans Affairs, 2003-2004
-Abstract Reviewer, HCV Therapy-Preclinical and Early Clinical Development, American Association for the Study of Liver Disease (AASLD), 2004.
-Abstract Reviewer, Anti-viral therapies for HCV, American Gastroenterology Association, 2004
-Member, Education Enduring Materials Committee, AASLD, 2004-2007
-Fellow, American Gastroenterological Association (AGAF)
-Fellow, American College of Physicians
-Fellow, American College of Gastroenterology
-American Association for the Study of Liver Disease
-American Federation for Clinical Research
-American Gastroenterological Association
-The Foundation for Digestive Health & Nutrition
-American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
-American Society of Transplant Physicians
-American Medical Association
-California Medical Association
-San Diego Gastroenterology Society (President, 1992)
-San Diego County Medical Society
-American Liver Foundation
-American Academy of Pharmaceutical Physicians Board Memberships:
-Campaign Chairman and Founding Member, San Diego Chapter of the American Liver Foundation
-Member, Board of Trustees, San Diego Chapter of the American Liver Foundation, 2000-present Honors & Awards:
-B.A., Magna Cum Laude, University of California, San Diego, 1974
-Outstanding Teaching Award, Internal Medicine House Staff, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, 1989
-Founding Member Award, San Diego Chapter of the American Liver Foundation, 1991
-Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare (Marquis Whos Who) 1997-1998
-Whos Who in the West 1998-1999
-Skaggs Clinical Scholar, The Scripps Research Institute, 1999-2005
-Guide to Top Doctors, Center for the Study of Services, 2002
-Guide to Americas Top Physicians, published by Consumers Research Council of America, 2003 Research Focus:
-Active clinical investigator in liver disease
-Chronic hepatitis B and C
-Complications of end-stage liver disease
-Predictors of fibrosis in hepatitis C
-Management of treatment side effects
-Emerging therapies for hepatitis C

• Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla

Scripps Clinic Torrey Pines

10666 N Torrey Pines Rd

La Jolla

CA

92037

USA

+18585549100

• Hepatology
• Gastroenterology
• Other Specialty

• Colonoscopy
• Liver Biopsy

• Accepts Medicaid
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• Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
• Cirrhosis
• Constipation
• Esophagitis
• Liver Cancer
• Diverticulosis
• Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
• Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
• Infectious Liver Disease