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
American Board Certifications
- Gastroenterology, American Board of Internal Medicine
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.
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Dr Pratt is always friendly, professional and explains everything clearly and answers all of my questions.
Dr Pratt and staff are the best! They make you feel as you are the most person they have to see that day. It is appreciated and I'm grateful.
My GI team is fantastic.
Dr. Pratt is a great doctor. He's always trying to help me feel better.
The wait was well worth it, Dr. Pratt and Dr. [redacted] (the fellow), took their time explaining everything to me and my mom in a new way that made everything make sense and made me very glad we got a second opinion. Although no tx is guaranteed, it feels better to at least try different meds whereas I've had other doctors dismiss them. This is ... Read More