Samir Abu-Gazala
· Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Pennsylvania · Rehabilitation Medicine
Active 2009–2024
About
Samir Abu-Gazala, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in transplant surgery within the Department of Surgery. He is an active surgeon at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and an attending surgeon at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Abu-Gazala serves as the Surgical Director of the Living Donor Kidney Team at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. His educational background includes earning his MD from Hadassah Hebrew University School of Medicine in Jerusalem, Israel, in 2007. His research contributions include studies on the impact of surgery duration on postoperative mortality in patients with cirrhosis, practices that maximize access to living kidney transplantation, barriers to living donor liver donation, and the impact of donor body mass index on liver transplantation outcomes. He has also contributed to understanding national trends in liver transplantation practices and the utilization of machine perfusion to increase transplantation success. His work is characterized by a focus on improving transplant outcomes and expanding access to transplantation through clinical research and innovative practices.
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