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• Harvard-trained in Liver Transplantation

 

• Board-Certified general surgeon and a liver transplant surgeon with 3 decades of clinical experience.

 

• Experienced expert witness in liver transplantation, general surgery, hepato-biliary surgery, liver oncology, and hepatology since 2018. Reviewed over 100 cases. Testified multiple times.

 

• Rare distinction of being a Certified Life Care Planner and Liver Transplant specialist.

 

• Specializing in liver transplants, catastrophic abdominal injuries, chronic liver diseases.

 

• Causation Expert in Liver Diseases and Drug-induced Liver Injuries

 

• International Commission on Health Care Certification Certified

 

• Clinical insight into lifetime transplant costs virtually unique in the medicolegal field.

       Scientific basis of Life Expectancy, Survival and Prognosis.​

 

• American Board of Surgery Certified.  Fellow of the American College of Surgeons

 

• Fellow designation by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). 

 

• Former Collaborative Professor at the University of South Florida, Morsani College of Medicine.​

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EDUCATION  and TRAINING

 

• Fellowship trained at Harvard Medical School affiliate - New England Deaconess Hospital in Hepato-Biliary Surgery, Renal and Liver Transplantation.

 

• Surgical Residency at St Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Boston, MA

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REAL WORLD EXPERIENCE

 

• Over two decades of hepato-biliary (liver) surgery and liver transplantation experience at a quaternary care, 1,041 bed teaching hospital. Directed liver transplantation and liver cancer programs for total of 20 years

 

• Managed immunosuppression treatments in over 2,000 liver transplant recipients.

 

• Proven track record:   Achieved the 96th percentile in long term outcomes of liver transplantation nationally, among 130 programs.

 

• Leader of a multi-disciplinary liver cancer team. Evaluated over 5,000 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma

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PUBLICATIONS and RESEARCH

 

• Principal investigator and researcher in pivotal trials of liver transplantation, acute liver failure, NASH/MASH, Hepatitis C, and liver cancer.   27 Clinical Trials as principal investigator.

 

• Published in topics of acute liver failure, liver cancer, liver transplantation, cirrhosis and portal hypertension, ethnic and ethical aspects of transplantation, and liver oncology.

 

• Expert  CME teacher, advisor, research mentor, speaking experience nationally and internationally.

 

​More publications available upon request​

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