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OR Experience

150-170 Adult Liver Transplants Per Year

  • Including partial allografts: living donor right lobes, deceased donor right trisegments
  • Including complex surgical considerations: venous conduits for PVT, arterial conduits, TIPS removal, polycystic liver disease, high BMI recipients
  • Including complex medical considerations: approximately 50% of recipients at Keck are in ICU at time of transplant and/or have MELD score 31-40

30+ Pediatric Liver Transplants per Year

  • Including whole allografts, living donor left lobes, and deceased donor left lateral segments

220+ Kidney Transplants per year

  • Including more than 20 pediatric kidney transplants per year
  • Fellows get exposure to both robotic and single-incision laparoscopic living donor nephrectomies

Organ procurement

  • Senior fellow performs independently
  • Helps proctor junior fellow(s)
  • Involves residents and/or PAs

HPB experience and more!

  • Fellows easily fulfill HPB requirements
  • Additional cases include: major general surgery operations in transplant patients, portosystemic shunts in adults and children for portal HTN

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