Kristina R. Chacko, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, NY.  She joined the Einstein-Montefiore Liver Center in 2013 after completing a fellowship in Transplant Hepatology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, NY.  She received her bachelor of arts in philosophy at Boston College and attended medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX.  She completed her internal medicine residency at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, and gastroenterology fellowship at New York University.  Her clinical and research interests include the diagnosis and management of alcoholic hepatitis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, autoimmune liver diseases, and liver transplantation.  As the program director of the ACGME-accredited transplant hepatology fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center, she is directly involved in the development and execution of the hepatology curriculum for gastroenterology and hepatology fellows. 

Nahas J, Tow CY, Chacko KR, Haider T, Massoumi H. Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor does not improve mortality in severe alcoholic hepatitis: a single-center experience from the United States. Gastroenterol Hepatol Bed Bench. 2023;16(1):524-526. PMID: 37070107

Díaz LA, Fuentes-López E, Ayares G, Idalsoaga F, Arnold J, Valverde MA, Perez D, Gómez J, Escarate R, Villalón A, Ramírez CA, Hernandez-Tejero M, Zhang W, Qian S, Simonetto DA, Ahn JC, Buryska S, Dunn W, Mehta H, Agrawal R, Cabezas J, García-Carrera I, Cuyàs B, Poca M, Soriano G, Sarin SK, Maiwall R, Jalal PK, Abdulsada S, Higuera-de-la-Tijera F, Kulkarni AV, Rao PN, Salazar PG, Skladaný L, Bystrianska N, Clemente-Sanchez A, Villaseca-Gómez C, Haider T, Chacko KR, Romero GA, Pollarsky FD, Restrepo JC, Castro-Sanchez S, Toro LG, Yaquich P, Mendizabal M, Garrido ML, Marciano S, Dirchwolf M, Vargas V, Jiménez C, Louvet A, García-Tsao G, Roblero JP, Abraldes JG, Shah VH, Kamath PS, Arrese M, Singal AK, Bataller R, Arab JP. MELD 3.0 adequately predicts mortality and renal replacement therapy requirements in patients with alcohol-associated hepatitis. JHEP Rep. 2023 Mar 15;5(8):100727. PMID: 37456675; 

Arab JP, Díaz LA, Baeza N, Idalsoaga F, Fuentes-López E, Arnold J, Ramírez CA, Morales-Arraez D, Ventura-Cots M, Alvarado-Tapias E, Zhang W, Clark V, Simonetto D, Ahn JC, Buryska S, Mehta TI, Stefanescu H, Horhat A, Bumbu A, Dunn W, Attar B, Agrawal R, Haque ZS, Majeed M, Cabezas J, García-Carrera I, Parker R, Cuyàs B, Poca M, Soriano G, Sarin SK, Maiwall R, Jalal PK, Abdulsada S, Higuera-de la Tijera MF, Kulkarni AV, Rao PN, Guerra Salazar P, Skladaný L, Bystrianska N, Prado V, Clemente-Sanchez A, Rincón D, Haider T, Chacko KR, Cairo F, de Sousa Coelho M, Romero GA, Pollarsky FD, Restrepo JC, Castro-Sanchez S, Toro LG, Yaquich P, Mendizabal M, Garrido ML, Narvaez A, Bessone F, Marcelo JS, Piombino D, Dirchwolf M, Arancibia JP, Altamirano J, Kim W, Araujo RC, Duarte-Rojo A, Vargas V, Rautou PE, Issoufaly T, Zamarripa F, Torre A, Lucey MR, Mathurin P, Louvet A, García-Tsao G, González JA, Verna E, Brown RS, Roblero JP, Abraldes JG, Arrese M, Shah VH, Kamath PS, Singal AK, Bataller R. Identification of optimal therapeutic window for steroid use in severe alcohol-associated hepatitis: A worldwide study. J Hepatol. 2021 Nov;75(5):1026-1033. doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2021.06.019. Epub 2021 Jun 21. PMID: 34166722.

Andacoglu O, Özbek U, Liu J, Figueredo C, Chacko KR, Tow C, Reinus JF, Kinkhabwala M. Comparison of 1-Year Morbidity Following Liver Transplant for Acute Alcoholic Hepatitis Versus Alcoholic Cirrhosis. Exp Clin Transplant. 2021 May;19(5):439-444. Epub 2021 Jan 11. PMID: 33455569.

Fontana RJ, Brown RS Jr, Moreno-Zamora A, Prieto M, Joshi S, Londoño MC, Herzer K, Chacko KR, Stauber RE, Knop V, Jafri SM, Castells L, Ferenci P, Torti C, Durand CM, Loiacono L, Lionetti R, Bahirwani R, Weiland O, Mubarak A, ElSharkawy AM, Stadler B, Montalbano M, Berg C, Pellicelli AM, Stenmark S, Vekeman F, Ionescu-Ittu R, Emond B, Reddy KR. Daclatasvir combined with sofosbuvir or simeprevir in liver transplant recipients with severe recurrent hepatitis C infection. Liver Transpl. 2016 Apr;22(4):446-58. PMID: 26890629.

Chacko KR, Wolkoff AW. Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy: New Diagnostic Insights. Ann Hepatol. 2017 March-April;16(2):176-178.  PMID: 28233755.

Chacko KR, Reinus J. Spectrum of Alcoholic Liver Disease. Clin Liver Dis. 2016 Aug;20(3):419-27. doi: 10.1016/j.cld.2016.02.002. Epub 2016 May 31. PMID: 27373606.

Chacko KR, Reinus J. Extrahepatic Complications of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. Clin Liver Dis. 2016 May;20(2):387-401. doi: 10.1016/j.cld.2015.10.004. Epub 2016 Feb 18. PMID: 27063276.