
ABOUT DOCTOR
Dr. Anand Khakhar is presently a Senior Consultant Liver Transplant & Hepatobiliary Surgeon and Program Director for the Liver Transplant program at the Center for Liver Disease & Transplantation, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, India. At Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, he has established the most up-to-date infrastructure geared towards undertaking successful liver transplants, complex liver, hepatobiliary & pancreatic surgery. He undertakes both living donor liver transplant as well as cadaveric liver transplant. Dr Anand Khakhar worked with Professor Dr Thomas E Starzl who performed the worlds first liver transplantation and is considered a Father of Liver Transplantation in the world. In Pittsburgh he also worked with Dr Amadeo Marcos, who is a pioneer in Living Donor Liver Transplantation and has performed the largest number of living donor liver transplants in USA.
Education
MBBS- MP Shah Medical College,Jamnagar, 1993
MS - General Surgery- MP Shah Medical College,Jamnagar, 1996
DNB (Genito - Urinary Surgery)- National Board of Examinations, New Delhi, 2001
Registrations
94162 Tamil Nadu Medical Council, 2011
Awards/Achievements:
SIU International Scholarship for pursuing clinical transplantation in the year 2000
Research Scholarship University of Western Ontario for developing a pig model for laparoscopic donor hepatectomy
Research Scholarship Columbia University, New York for studying role of BK virus nephropathy as a cause of renal dysfunction in non-renal solid organ transplant recipients
He worked with Professor Dr Thomas E Starzl who performed the world’s first liver transplantation and is considered a ‘Father’ of Liver Transplantation in the world.
In Pittsburgh he also worked with Dr Amadeo Marcos, who is a pioneer in Living Donor Liver Transplantation and has performed the largest number of living donor liver transplants in USA -