Division Faculty

Bradford Waters, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Chief of GI, VA Medical Center, Memphis TN

Transplant Hepatology and Gastroenterology, VAMC Memphis
Clinical Investigator

Medical School:

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 1982

Residency:

University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, 1982-1985

Fellowship:

Gastroenterology and Transplantation Hepatology, University of Tennessee, Memphis 1988-1991

Board Certification:

American Board of Internal Medicine

American Board of Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology

Clinical Interests:  Viral hepatitis, liver transplantation, complications of portal hypertension.

Research Interests: Hepatitis C and liver transplantation.

Selected Publications:

Waters B, Kudsk KA, Jarvi EJ, Brown RO, Fabian TC, Wood EC. 1994. Effect of route of

nutrition on recovery of hepatic organic anion clearance after fasting. Surgery 1994;

115:370-374.   

Smalley DL, Brewer SC, Dawson GJ, Kyrk C, Waters B. 1996. Hepatitis E virus infection

in an immigrant to the United States. S. Med. J. 89:994-996.

Hunt CM, Dominitz JA, Bute BP, Waters B, Blasi U, Williams DM. Effect of interferon

treatment of chronic hepatitis C on health-related quality of life. Dig Dis Sci 1997 Dec;42        (12):2482-2486.

Willner IR, Uhl MD, Howard SC, Williams EQ, Riely CA, Waters B. 1998. Serious hepatitis A: An analysis of patients hospitalized during an urban epidemic in the United States. Ann Intern Med 128(2):111-114.

Willner IR, Waters B, Patil SR, Reuben A, Morelli J, Riely CA. 2001. Ninety patients with non- alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH): Insulin resistance, familial tendency and severity of disease.  Am J Gastroenterol 97(10):2957-2961.

Waters B, Riely CA.  Drug and chemical-induced Hepatic Injury. IN: BOCKUS Gastroenterology, Fifth Edition, 1994, W. Haubrich, F. Schaffner, JE Berk, eds., W.B. Saunders Company, Orlando FL, vol. 3, pp 2158-2189.