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The Liver Center

The Liver Center affiliated with Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center and located in Florham Park, is dedicated to caring for patients with liver conditions. The Center specializes in the comprehensive diagnosis, care and treatment of a wide spectrum of liver diseases. These include:

  • Chronic viral hepatitis (hepatitis B and hepatitis C)
  • Cirrhosis and fibrosis
  • Fatty liver (non-alcoholic fatty liver, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis)
  • Liver tumors and masses [Liver Cancer (Hepatocellular Carcinoma), bile duct cancer (cholangiocarcinoma), gallbladder cancer, metastatic cancer to the liver, liver cysts]
  • Identification and early intervention for early liver disease
  • Hepatitis B and C screening, care and treatment
  • Close collaboration with liver transplant centers
  • Continued support and outpatient management for patients awaiting transplant listing and/or after listing

The Liver Center brings together a multidisciplinary team of experts offering personalized care and the most advanced treatment options to patients with all kinds of liver conditions. These services include:

  • Comprehensive management of liver disease
  • Complex liver, pancreatic and biliary surgery (HPB Surgery)
    • Minimally-invasive surgical techniques (Laparoscopic and Robotic)
    • Biliary reconstruction for malignancy, benign strictures, or following bile duct injury
    • Thermal and non-thermal tumor ablation, microwave and irreversible electroporation, IRE
    • Insertion of hepatic arterial infusion pumps
    • Liver resection
  • Outpatient Radiology Services

    • Ultrasound

    • Multiphasic CT Imaging

    • State-of-the-Art 3T MRI imaging

    • Elastography (noninvasive measurement of fibrosis)

    • Preauthorization Center

  • Interventional Radiology Services
    • Liver embolization (Bland, TACE, Y90)
    • Thermal ablation (Microwave, Radiofrequency)
    • Thermal and non-thermal tumor ablation (microwave and irreversible electroporation, IRE)

    • Transjugular Interahepatic Portosystemic Shunt (TIPS)

    • Paracentesis
    • Fine needle and core biopsies
  • Medical Oncology Services
    • Chemotherapy, small molecule inhibition, monoclonal antibodies
    • Immunotherapy
    • Access to clinical trials
  • Radiation Oncology
    • Yttrium 90 microsphere therapy radioembolization
    • Selective Internal Radiation Therapy (SIRT)
    • Stereotactic Body Radiation
    • CyberKnife radiation
    • Lutathera (Lu-177),
  • Nutrition Counseling

The Center staff work in close collaboration with liver transplant centers and provide continued support and outpatient management for patients awaiting transplant listing and/or after listing.

Comprehensive Management of Liver Diseases

Offering advanced and effective medical and surgical therapies, we provide expertise from a multidisciplinary team of renowned specialists in one comprehensive, centralized program to increase quality of life. Every patient will have a patient navigator who collaborates with the clinical team to coordinate care and facilitate appointments. For additional information and to reach a patient navigator to assist you with scheduling an appointment, call 973.261.9082.

We accept most major insurances.

Leadership

Su Wang, MD

Su Wang, MD, MPH

Medical Director, Liver Center Medical Director, Center for Asian Health & Viral Hepatitis Programs

Russell Langan, MD

Russell Langan, MD

Associate Chief Surgical Officer, System Integration and Quality Director of Surgical Oncology, Northern Region, RWJBarnabas Health, Rutgers Cancer Institute Chief of Surgical Oncology & Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery

The Liver Center