Lily Kuo, MD
GI Fellow - PGY5
Personal Statement:
I ranked this fellowship program because I wanted to join the family of awesome fellows and faculty here.
San Antonio feels like home to me – several big city benefits with a smaller town feel, great hiking spots in hill country, and amazing new restaurants popping up year after year.
Education
Residency: UT Health San Antonio
Medical School: UT Health San Antonio
Awards & Accomplishments
- 2023 awarded the Leon Kundrotas Resident Research Award, Exceptional Patient Care Award in IM Residency, and Outstanding Resident Award from the Long School of Medicine.
- 2022, I was awarded the Intern of the Year (along with one of my new co-fellows!).
Publications
- GI Janes Podcast
An educational Gastroenterology/Hepatology podcast, co-hosted by Lily Kuo & Saatchi Kuwelker
Published on Spotify, Apple podcasts, and Audible - Kuo, Lily, Saatchi Kuwelker, and Eugenia Tsai. “Management of autoimmune and viral hepatitis in immunotherapy: a narrative review.” Annals of Palliative Medicine 12.6 (2023): 1275294-1271294.
- Kazi, Iqra Nadeem, Lily Kuo, and Eugenia Tsai. “Noninvasive Methods for Assessing Liver Fibrosis and Steatosis.” Gastroenterology & Hepatology 20.1 (2024): 21.
- Stawinski, P. M., Dziadkowiec, K. N., Kuo, L. A., Echavarria, J., & Saligram, S. (2023). Barrett’s Esophagus: An Updated Review. Diagnostics, 13(2), 321.
- Kuwelker, S., Tsai, E., Kuo, L., Kim, J., Van Frank, T., Mitchell, R., … & Poordad, F. (2023). High sustained virologic response rates, regardless of race or socioeconomic class, in patients treated with chronic hepatitis C in community practice using a specialized pharmacy team. Medicine, 102(30), e34183.
- Prior to my career in medicine, my biomedical engineering research was on applications of three-dimensional ultrasound elastography (acoustic radiation force imaging and shear wave imaging)