About Daniel Pratt, MD
Daniel S. Pratt, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Clinical Director of Liver Transplantation, and Director of the Autoimmune and Cholestatic Liver Center at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Pratt received his BA from Bowdoin College and his MD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed a residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Tufts-New England Medical Center. He served on the faculty of the Tufts University School of Medicine from 1995 until 2004.
Dr. Pratt was the Medical Director of the Liver Transplant Program and Clinical Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology at the Tufts Medical Center. He joined the faculty of the Harvard Medical School and the MGH Gastrointestinal Unit in 2004.
Dr. Pratt's particular area of clinical interest is autoimmune and cholestatic liver disease including autoimmune hepatitis, primary biliary cirrhosis, primary sclerosing cholangitis, and IgG4 associated liver disease. He also does work in cholangiocarcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, viral hepatitis, and cirrhosis/endstage liver disease. Dr. Pratt is the head of the PSC Registry at MGH.
Dr. Pratt has written extensively on liver disease and has been the recipient of numerous teaching awards.
Departments, Centers, & Programs:
Clinical Interests:
- Abnormal Liver Function Tests
- Autoimmune hepatitis, Autoimmune liver disease
- Cholangiocarcinoma
- Cirrhosis
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Hepatocellular carcinoma
- Liver tumors
- Primary Biliary Cholangitis
- Primary sclerosing cholangitis
Treats:
- Adult
Locations
Mass General Gastroenterology
55 Fruit St.
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-726-2426
Medical Education
- MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Residency, Tufts Medical Center
- Fellowship, TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Fallon Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- Maine Community Health Options
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid RI
- Medicaid VT
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- Railroad Medicare
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense
- WellSense NH
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
Research
Principal Investigator, PSC Registry at MGH
Publications
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Select Publications:
- Pratt DS. Liver Chemistry and Function Tests. In Feldman M, et al, editors. Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease, 9th Edition, 2010.
- Pratt DS. Primary Biliary Cirrhosis. In Greenberger N, et al, editors. Current Diagnosis and Treatment in Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Endoscopy, 2009.
Dr. Pratt's one of the best liver doctors I've seen. He's courteous, respectful, and he's helped me a great deal. I highly recommend him. He has a great attitude. Thank you.
This provider, Dr. Pratt, is outstanding. He is always prepared in advance of our meetings and walks in the door with a plan based on my current status. He provides options which are discussed thoroughly with any pros and cons to be considered and next steps are determined together. I always feel he has my best interest, based on my life ... Read More
I have complete confidence in my care under Dr. Pratt. He's a wonderful doctor. He's very caring. He explains things and he's on top of issues that I've had associated with my illness and I can't say enough good things about him. He's great.
Dr. Pratt is one of the most professional, warm, and wonderful doctors I have ever had the pleasure to visit. He is always thorough, he's a phenomenal listener, and he explains everything very carefully. He's amazing and I recommend him for anybody that needs to see a doctor that specializes in liver disease.
My Doctor was extremely helpful and explained everything in detail and listened to my questions. He was very knowledgeable and explained options that were available to me. Just a wonderful human being.
Dr. Pratt is incredibly knowledgeable, always available, either he or his team gets back to me right away. He's an amazing doctor and I would trust him with my life. In fact I do.
I always get good care at Mass General, I love Dr Pratt and his staff, he's very available and listens totally during our appointment and an extremely nice person
Excellent care with expertise, informative communication style and great listening skills. Willing to consider input from patient and advise accordingly in a positive way. Presentation of data from tests and scans was easy to understand. I would recommend Dr Pratt to anyone in need of his expertise.
Dr. Pratt was very professional, friendly and explained my disease and test results in a manner that was easy to understand and in a compassionate manner.
Dr. Pratt is amazing. Extremely knowledgeable but also organized, personable, and puts you at ease. Phenomenal doctor.