Juan Gonzalez-Abraldes

Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Medicine Dept

Contact

Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Medicine Dept
Email
juan5@ualberta.ca
Phone
(780) 492-6995
Address
1-28A Zeidler Centre
8540 112 St
Edmonton AB
T6G 2X8

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

portal hypertension cirrhosis


About

Dr. Abraldes received his medical degree from the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain, completed a Fellowship in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Barcelona and a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University. He was awarded the Rising Star of European Gastroenterology award from the United European Gastroenterology Federation in 2012. He was a faculty member of the Barcelona Liver Unit until he was recruited to the University of Alberta in 2013. His research area is portal hypertension and cirrhosis.

Leadership and Collaborations:

Dr. Abraldes is the Director of the Liver Unit and the AHS Hepatology lead for the Edmonton Zone. He is also a member of the division’s Residence Program Committee. He served as the Chair of the Special Interest group in Portal hypertension of the American Society for the Study of the Liver (2017-2018), and currently serves as steering committee member for the Baveno International Cooperation for the study of Portal Hypertension. He is the co-chair of the research committee for the Canadian Association for the Study of the Liver. He serves as Associate Editor in Hepatology, and on the Editorial Board of Journal of Hepatology and Liver Transplantation. He has co-authored the 2016 American Association for the Study of the liver (AASLD) guidelines for the management of portal hypertension.



Clinical Interests

Dr. Abraldes is an attending physician in the gastroenterology, hepatology and liver transplant units at the University of Alberta Hospital. He sees patients in the outpatient clinic in Hepatology and Liver Transplantation and provides endoscopic services. He is co-director of the multidisciplinary Cirrhosis Care Clinic.


Research

Dr. Abraldes spends 50 percent of his time investigating the pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of portal hypertension and cirrhosis. Organizations that have supported his research include the American Gastroenterological Association (Elsevier Pilot grant), the National Institutes of Health (as part of an international consortium), the University of Alberta Hospital Foundation and the Spanish Ministry of Health. He has more than 250 articles in peer-reviewed publications.


Teaching

Dr. Abraldes received the Teacher of the Year award from the Division of Gastroenterology in 2016 and 2019, and the Honourable mention of the Professional Association of Resident Physicians of Alberta (PARA). He supervises trainees at all levels, provides classroom instruction as part of the undergraduate and graduate medical curriculums, and has delivered specialized training in specific liver procedures to postdoctoral fellows and visiting professors. He is active in continuing medical education through grand rounds presentations and lectures about management of patients with liver disease.

Featured Publications

Boike J.R., Thornburg B.G., Asrani S.K., Fallon M.B., Fortune B.E., Izzy M.J., Verna E.C., Abraldes J.G., Allegretti A.S., Bajaj J.S., Biggins S.W., Darcy M.D., Farr M.A., Farsad K., Garcia-Tsao G., Hall S.A., Jadlowiec C.C., Krowka M.J., Laberge J., Lee E.W., Mulligan D.C., Nadim M.K., Northup P.G., Salem R., Shatzel J.J., Shaw C.J., Simonetto D.A., Susman J., Kolli K.P., VanWagner L.B.

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 2022 August; 20 (8):1636-1662.e36 10.1016/j.cgh.2021.07.018


Mendizabal M., Ducasa N., Benencio P., Anders M., Cairo F., Barbero M., Etcheves P., Alter A., Scarton G., Abraldes J.G., Biglione M., Mauro E.

Hepatology Communications. 2022 July; 10.1002/hep4.2034


Mauro E., Diaz J.M., Garcia-Olveira L., Spina J., Savluk L., Zalazar F., Saidman J., De Santibañes M., Pekolj J., De Santibañes E., Crespo G., Abraldes J.G., Gadano A.

Hepatology Communications. 2022 July; 6 (7):1699-1710 10.1002/hep4.1919


Chiang D., Dingle T.C., Belga S., Kabbani D., Bhanji R.A., Walter J., Abraldes J.G., Cervera C.

Transpl Infect Dis. 2022 June; 24 (3):e13821 10.1111/tid.13821


Jiménez C., Ventura-Cots M., Sala M., Calafat M., Garcia-Retortillo M., Cirera I., Cañete N., Soriano G., Poca M., Simón-Talero M., Altamirano J., Lucey M., Garcia-Tsao G., Brown R.S., Schwabe R.F., Verna E.C., Schnabl B., Bosques-Padilla F., Mathurin P., Caballería J., Louvet A., Shawcross D.L., Abraldes J.G., Genescà J., Bataller R., Vargas V.

Liver International. 2022 May; 42 (5):1109-1120 10.1111/liv.15207


Bai W., Abraldes J.G.

CURRENT OPINION IN GASTROENTEROLOGY. 2022 May; 38 (3):206-215 10.1097/MOG.0000000000000824


de Franchis R., Bosch J., Garcia-Tsao G., Reiberger T., Ripoll C., Abraldes J.G., Albillos A., Baiges A., Bajaj J., Bañares R., Barrufet M., Benajiba L., Berzigotti A., Bureau C., Calvaruso V., Cardenas A., D'Amico G., De Gottardi A., Dell'Era A., Escorsell A., Fallowfield J., Ferral H., Francque S., Gaba R., Garcia-Pagàn J.C., Genescà J., Rodrigues S.G., Gracia-Sancho J., Han G., Hernandez-Gea V., Jia J., Kiladjian J.J., Krag A., Laleman W., La Mura V., Lens S., Luo X., Mandorfer M., Murad S.D., Paradis V., Patch D., Piano S., Pinzani M., Plessier A., Primignani M., Procopet B., Rautou P.E., Rudler M., Sarin S.K., Schepis F., Senzolo M., Shah V., Shukla A., Tandon P., Tellez L., Thabut D., Thiele M., Trebicka J., Tripathi D., Tsochatzis E., Turco L., Turon F., Valla D., Villanueva C., Wanless I., Yoshiji H.

Journal of Hepatology. 2022 April; 76 (4):959-974 10.1016/j.jhep.2021.12.022


Wang S., Whitlock R., Xu C., Taneja S., Singh S., Abraldes J.G., Burak K.W., Bailey R.J., Lai J.C., Tandon P.

Hepatology. 2022 March; 75 (3):600-609 10.1002/hep.32157


Hyde A.M., Watt M., Carbonneau M., Eboreime E.A., Abraldes J.G., Tandon P.

Telemed J E Health. 2022 March; 28 (3):407-414 10.1089/tmj.2021.0099


MacDonald A.J., Subramanian R.M., Olson J.C., Speiser J.L., Durkalski-Mauldin V.L., Abraldes J.G., Bigam D.L., Flynn M.M., Rapaka B., Shropshire B.M., Vora R.S., Karvellas C.J.

Crit Care Med. 2022 February; 50 (2):286-295 10.1097/CCM.0000000000005194


Parker R., Cabezas J., Altamirano J., Arab J.P., Ventura-Cots M., Sinha A., Dhanda A., Arrese M., McCune C.A., Rowe I.A., Schnabl B., Mathurin P., Shawcross D., Abraldes J.G., Lucey M.R., Garcia-Tsao G., Verna E., Brown R.S., Bosques-Padilla F., Vargas V., Louvet A., Holt A.P., Bataller R.

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 2022 February; 20 (2):e289-e297 10.1016/j.cgh.2021.01.042


Morales-Arráez D., Ventura-Cots M., Altamirano J., Abraldes J.G., Cruz-Lemini M., Thursz M.R., Atkinson S.R., Sarin S.K., Kim W., Chavez-Araujo R., Higuera-De La Tijera M.F., Singal A.K., Shah V.H., Kamath P.S., Duarte-Rojo A., Charles E.A., Vargas V., Jager M., Rautou P.E., Rincon D., Zamarripa F., Restrepo-Gutiérrez J.C., Torre A., Lucey M.R., Arab J.P., Mathurin P., Louvet A., García-Tsao G., González J.A., Verna E.C., Brown R.S., Argemi J., Fernández-Carillo C., Clemente A., Alvarado-Tapias E., Forrest E., Allison M., Bataller R.

American Journal of Gastroenterology. 2022 February; 117 (2):301-310 10.14309/ajg.0000000000001596


Al-Karaghouli M., Fuentes S., Davyduke T., Ma M., Abraldes J.G.

BMJ Open Gastroenterology. 2022 January; 9 (1):e000798 10.1136/bmjgast-2021-000798


Pose E., Solà E., Lozano J.J., Juanola A., Sidorova J., Zaccherini G., de Wit K., Uschner F., Tonon M., Kazankov K., Jiménez C., Campion D., Napoleone L., Ma A.T., Carol M., Morales-Ruiz M., Alessandria C., Beuers U., Caraceni P., Francoz C., Durand F., Mookerjee R.P., Trebicka J., Vargas V., Piano S., Watson H., Abraldes J.G., Kamath P.S., Davis M.M., Ginès P., Schulz M., Ferstl P., Giovo I., Roux O., Simon-Talero M., Pérez-Guasch M., Rubio A.B., Cervera M., Martínez S., Fabrellas N., Pich J., Vives A., Avitabile E., Graupera I., Solé C., Bassegoda O., Gratacós-Ginès J., Joyera M., Palacio E., Aban M., Lanzillotti T., Nicolao G., Chiappa M.T., Esnault V., Andrade R., Pavesi M., Korenjak M., Farrés J., Serra-Burriel M., Angeli P.

Hepatol Commun. 2021 December; 10.1002/hep4.1881


Vionnet J., Miquel R., Abraldes J.G., Wall J., Kodela E., Lozano J.J., Ruiz P., Navasa M., Marshall A., Nevens F., Gelson W., Leithead J., Masson S., Jaeckel E., Taubert R., Tachtatzis P., Eurich D., Simpson K.J., Bonaccorsi-Riani E., Feng S., Bucuvalas J., Ferguson J., Quaglia A., Sidorova J., Elstad M., Douiri A., Sánchez-Fueyo A.

Journal of Hepatology. 2021 December; 75 (6):1409-1419 10.1016/j.jhep.2021.08.007


Moctezuma-Velázquez C., Lewis S., Lee K., Amodeo S., Llovet J.M., Schwartz M., Abraldes J.G., Villanueva A.

JHEP Reports. 2021 December; 3 (6) 10.1016/j.jhepr.2021.100364


Garcia Garcia de Paredes A., Villanueva C., Blanco C., Genescà J., Manicardi N., Garcia-Pagan J.C., Calleja J.L., Aracil C., Morillas R.M., Poca M., Peñas B., Augustin S., Abraldes J.G., Alvarado E., Royo F., Garcia-Bermejo M.L., Falcon-Perez J.M., Bañares R., Bosch J., Gracia-Sancho J., Albillos A.

JHEP Reports. 2021 December; 3 (6) 10.1016/j.jhepr.2021.100368


Arab J.P., Díaz L.A., Baeza N., Idalsoaga F., Fuentes-López E., Arnold J., Ramírez C.A., Morales-Arraez D., Ventura-Cots M., Alvarado-Tapias E., Zhang W., Clark V., Simonetto D., Ahn J.C., Buryska S., Mehta T.I., Stefanescu H., Horhat A., Bumbu A., Dunn W., Attar B., Agrawal R., Haque Z.S., Majeed M., Cabezas J., García-Carrera I., Parker R., Cuyàs B., Poca M., Soriano G., Sarin S.K., Maiwall R., Jalal P.K., Abdulsada S., Higuera-de la Tijera M.F., Kulkarni A.V., Rao P.N., Guerra Salazar P., Skladaný L., Bystrianska N., Prado V., Clemente-Sanchez A., Rincón D., Haider T., Chacko K.R., Cairo F., de Sousa Coelho M., Romero G.A., Pollarsky F.D., Restrepo J.C., Castro-Sanchez S., Toro L.G., Yaquich P., Mendizabal M., Garrido M.L., Narvaez A., Bessone F., Marcelo J.S., Piombino D., Dirchwolf M., Arancibia J.P., Altamirano J., Kim W., Araujo R.C., Rojo A.D., Vargas V., Rautou P.E., Issoufaly T., Zamarripa F., Torre A., Lucey M.R., Mathurin P., Louvet A., García-Tsao G., González J.A., Verna E., Brown R.S., Roblero J.P., Abraldes J.G., Arrese M., Shah V.H., Kamath P.S., Singal A.K., Bataller R.

Journal of Hepatology. 2021 November; 75 (5):1026-1033 10.1016/j.jhep.2021.06.019


Moctezuma-Velazquez C., Abraldes J.G.

American Journal of Gastroenterology. 2021 November; 116 (11):2197-2198 10.14309/ajg.0000000000001385


Musto J.A., Eickhoff J., Ventura-Cots M., Abraldes J.G., Bosques-Padilla F., Verna E.C., Brown R.S., Vargas V., Altamirano J., Caballería J., Shawcross D., Louvet A., Mathurin P., Garcia-Tsao G., Schnabl B., Bataller R., Lucey M.R.

Liver Transplantation. 2021 October; 27 (10):1382-1391 10.1002/lt.26203


Ginès P., Krag A., Abraldes J.G., Solà E., Fabrellas N., Kamath P.S.

The Lancet. 2021 October; 398 (10308):1359-1376 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01374-X


Shaheen A.A., Kong K., Ma C., Doktorchik C., Coffin C.S., Swain M.G., Burak K.W., Congly S.E., Lee S.S., Sadler M., Borman M., Abraldes J.G.

Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2021 October; 10.1016/j.cgh.2021.10.030


Dang T.N.T., Ebadi M., Abraldes J.G., Holman J., Ashmead J., Montano-Loza A.J., Tandon P.

Liver Transplantation. 2021 October; 27 (10):1490-1492 10.1002/lt.26087


Villanueva C., Albillos A., Genescà J., Garcia-Pagan J.C., Brujats A., Calleja J.L., Aracil C., Bañares R., Morillas R.M., Poca M., Peñas B., Augustin S., Abraldes J.G., Alvarado E., Torres F., Bosch J.

Journal of Hepatology. 2021 September; 75 (3):589-599 10.1016/j.jhep.2021.04.022


Genescà J., Abraldes J.G., Bosch J.

Journal of Hepatology. 2021 September; 75 (3):750-752 10.1016/j.jhep.2021.04.019


Wang S., Whitlock R., Xu C., Taneja S., Singh S., Abraldes J.G., Burak K.W., Bailey R.J., Lai J.C., Tandon P.

Hepatology. 2021 September; 10.1002/hep.32157


Garcia-Tsao G., Abraldes J.G.

GASTROENTEROLOGY. 2021 September; 161 (3):770-773 10.1053/j.gastro.2021.04.077


Martínez J., Hernández-Gea V., Rodríguez-de-Santiago E., Téllez L., Procopet B., Giráldez Á., Amitrano L., Villanueva C., Thabut D., Ibañez-Samaniego L., Silva-Junior G., Genescà J., Bureau C., Trebicka J., Bañares R., Krag A., Llop E., Laleman W., Palazon J.M., Castellote J., Rodrigues S., Gluud L.L., Noronha-Ferreira C., Cañete N., Rodríguez M., Ferlitsch A., Schwarzer R., Mundi J.L., Gronbaek H., Hernández-Guerra M., Sassatelli R., Dell'Era A., Senzolo M., Abraldes J.G., Romero-Gomez M., Zipprich A., Casas M., Masnou H., Primignani M., Nevens F., Calleja J.L., Jansen C., Robic M.A., Conejo I., Catalina M.V., Rudler M., Alvarado E., Perez-Campuzano V., Guardascione M.A., Fischer P., Bosch J., García-Pagán J.C., Albillos A.

Journal of Hepatology. 2021 August; 75 (2):342-350 10.1016/j.jhep.2021.03.026


Taylor L.M., Eslamparast T., Farhat K., Kroeker K., Halloran B., Shommu N., Kumar A., Fitzgerald Q., Gramlich L., Abraldes J.G., Tandon P., Raman M.

Crohn's and Colitis 360. 2021 July; 3 (3) 10.1093/crocol/otab043


Caraceni P., Abraldes J.G., Ginès P., Newsome P.N., Sarin S.K.

Journal of Hepatology. 2021 July; 75 (Suppl 1):S118-S134 10.1016/j.jhep.2021.01.024


Ismond K.P., Eslamparast T., Farhat K., Stickland M., Spence J.C., Bailey R.J., Abraldes J.G., Spiers J.A., Tandon P.

Journal of Medical Systems. 2021 July; 45 (7):72 10.1007/s10916-021-01746-3


Martínez J., Hernández-Gea V., Rodríguez-de-Santiago E., Téllez L., Procopet B., Giráldez Á., Amitrano L., Villanueva C., Thabut D., Ibañez-Samaniego L., Silva-Junior G., Genescà J., Bureau C., Trebicka J., Bañares R., Krag A., Llop E., Laleman W., Palazon J.M., Castellote J., Rodrigues S., Gluud L.L., Noronha-Ferreira C., Cañete N., Rodríguez M., Ferlitsch A., Schwarzer R., Mundi J.L., Gronbaek H., Hernández-Guerra M., Sassatelli R., Dell'Era A., Senzolo M., Abraldes J.G., Romero-Gomez M., Zipprich A., Casas M., Masnou H., Primignani M., Nevens F., Calleja J.L., Jansen C., Robic M.A., Conejo I., Catalina M.V., Rudler M., Alvarado E., Perez-Campuzano V., Guardascione M.A., Fischer P., Bosch J., García-Pagán J.C., Albillos A.

JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY. 2021 June; 75 (2):342-350 10.1016/j.jhep.2021.03.026


Bai W., Al-Karaghouli M., Stach J., Sung S., Matheson G.J., Abraldes J.G.

HEPATOLOGY. 2021 June; 10.1002/hep.32033


Caraceni P., Abraldes J.G., Ginès P., Newsome P.N., Sarin S.K.

JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY. 2021 May; 75 10.1016/j.jhep.2021.01.024


Pons M., Augustin S., Scheiner B., Guillaume M., Rosselli M., Rodrigues S.G., Stefanescu H., Ma M.M., Mandorfer M., Mergeay-Fabre M., Procopet B., Schwabl P., Ferlitsch A., Semmler G., Berzigotti A., Tsochatzis E., Bureau C., Reiberger T., Bosch J., Abraldes J.G., Genescà J.

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY. 2021 April; 116 (4):723-732 10.14309/ajg.0000000000000994


Rodrigues S.G., Abraldes J.G., Tsochatzis E., Bosch J., Berzigotti A.

LIVER INTERNATIONAL. 2021 April; 41 (4):819-827 10.1111/liv.14765


Sung S., Al-Karaghouli M., Kalainy S., Cabrera Garcia L., Abraldes J.G.

BMC GASTROENTEROLOGY. 2021 March; 21 (1) 10.1186/s12876-021-01704-w


Belga S., MacDonald C., Chiang D., Kabbani D., Shojai S., Abraldes J.G., Cervera C.

Clinical Infectectious Diseases. 2021 March; 72 (5):845-852 10.1093/cid/ciaa125


Veldhuijzen van Zanten D., Buganza E., Abraldes J.G.

Clinics in Liver Disease. 2021 March; 25 (2):327-343 10.1016/j.cld.2021.01.002


Wang S., Abraldes J.G.

LIVER TRANSPLANTATION. 2021 February; 27 (3):323-324 10.1002/lt.25976