Stela Celaj, MD, PhD

  • Assistant Professor of Medicine
  • Education Lead, Advanced Fellowship in Transplant Hepatology
Academic Interests

Management of chronic liver disease and complications of cirrhosis; the long-term care of liver transplant recipients, with a subspecialty interest in patients with recurrent or de-novo malignancies post-transplant.

    Education & Training

  • BSc, University College Utrecht
  • PhD, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
  • MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Residency, Internal Medicine, Northwestern University McGaw Medical Center
  • Fellowship, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
  • Fellowship, Transplant Hepatology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Recent Publications

Celaj S, Ganesh S, Hughes C, et al. Nationwide Marketing as a Tool in Increase Literacy and Awareness for Living Liver Donation. Annals of Hepatology. 2022; 27(6): 100768.

Celaj S, Singh H. Bad Gut Feeling: A Case of Recurrent Abdominal Pain in a Young Male. Gut. 2022; Dec14:gutjnl: 329030.

Liu X, Taylor S, Celaj S, et al. Expression of Unfolded Protein Response Genes in Post-transplantation Liver Biopsies. BMC Gastroenterology. 2022; 22(1): 380.

Celaj S, Kourkoumpetis T. Gallstones in Pregnancy. JAMA. 2021; 325(23): 2410.

Celaj S, Levitsky. Profiling the Liver Graft. Curr Opin Organ Transplant. 2021; 26(1): 17-22.

Mazumder NR, Celaj S, Atiemo K, et al. Liver-related Mortality is Similar Among Men and Women with Cirrhosis. Journal of Hepatology. 2020; 73(5): 1072-1081.

Celaj S, Levitsky J. Prevention and Management of HBV in Organ Transplantation. Curr Hepatology Rep. 2020; 19: 266-275.

Celaj S, Gleeson MW, Deng J, et al. The Microbiota Regulates Susceptibility to Fas-mediated Acute Hepatic Injury. Laboratory Investigation. 2014; 94(9): 938-949.

Cripps S, Celaj S, Burdick M, et al. Liver Inflammation in a Mouse Model of Th1 Hepatitis Despite the Absence of Invariant NKT Cells or the TH1 Chemokine Receptors CXCR3 and CCR5. Laboratory Investigation. 2012; 92: 1461-1471.

    Honors and Awards
  • Utrecht University Excellence Scholarship, 2006-2009
  • Best Poster Award - Dartmouth Integrative Biology Symposium, 2013
  • Dartmouth Graduate Alumni Research Award, 2013
  • P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship, 2016, 2017
  • Doris Hicks Student Scholar - Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 2014-2018
  • Young Investigator bursary, EASL The International Liver Congress, 2023