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Cleveland Clinic Abdominal Organ Transplantation and Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery Fellowship
Cleveland, OH
ASTS-accredited two-year fellowship joining liver, kidney and pancreas transplantation with hepatopancreatobiliary surgery, covering living and deceased donor work and open, laparoscopic and robotic approaches. Open to graduates of general surgery or urology residency.
Length2 years
Spots2 or 3 fellows per year, alternating
ASTS
What stands out
- Fully robotic living donor hepatectomy as standard for all donors since 2025; fully robotic liver transplant in selected recipients
- Single-port and multiport robotic kidney transplant and donor nephrectomy; the hospital reports the first single-port robotic kidney/pancreas transplant
- Robotic renal autotransplantation for nutcracker syndrome and ureteral disease; IVC resection and reconstruction with urologic oncology
- Robotic simulators plus a robotic system in the cadaver laboratory
- Program leads
- Alejandro Pita, Venkatesh Krishnamurthi
- Apply through
- ASTS Match (SF Match)
- Focus
- Liver and kidney transplantation, hepatopancreatobiliary surgery, living and deceased donor surgery, robotic and minimally invasive techniques
- Eligibility
- Not statedUSMLE: not statedVisa: not stated
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Training
- Structure
- Year 1 about 8 months liver/HPB then kidney-pancreas; year 2 brings more living donor hepatectomy and advanced HPB; about 8 months on kidney service overall
- Research
- Clinical research throughout, with a transplant database, biostatistics support, a weekly meeting with the Lerner Research Institute and the RoKiT robotic kidney database
- Case numbers
- Over 250 liver and 350 kidney transplants per year (program)
- 115 robotic kidney transplants in 2025 (centre)
- About 300 HPB cases per year, 30 to 40% minimally invasive (program)
- Hospital
- Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
- Faculty
- Alvin Wee, Mohamed Eltemamy, Koji Hashimoto, Federico Aucejo, Masato Fujiki, Charles Miller, Mazhar Khalil
Requirements (3)
- Urology residency graduates eligible (stated on program page): "completed or anticipate completion of a general surgery or urology residency program"
- Medical school degree
- All applicants must apply through SF Match