Dr. Anand Khakhar - Liver Specialist

Consultant Transplant & Hepatobiliary Surgeon Apollo Hospitals, Chennai.
Dr. Anand Khakhar has vast experience as a Hepatobiliary surgeon bringing with him an affluent experience in the field of Hepatobiliary unit. He has completed his fellowships in several reputed hospitals such as University of Western Ontario, London ON Canada, University of Pittsburgh TE Starzl Transplantation Institute, and Columbia University Medical Center, New York. His current interest include Organ transplantation involving Liver, kidney and Pancreas, living Donor Liver Transplantation, laparoscopic donor nephrectomy and Hepatobiliary surgery. He led the way to establish ‘The Centre of Liver and transplant unit’ at Apollo Hospitals.

Qualifications and fellowships: 
MBBS     1992     Saurastra University Rajkot, India
MS         1996     Saurastra University Rajkot, India
DNB       2000     National Board of Examinations New Delhi, India

SURGICAL EXPERTISE:
Liver, kidney and pancreas transplant
Living Donor Liver Transplantation, Laparoscopic donor Nephrectomy and Hepatobiliary surgery.

ACADEMIC ACHEIVEMENTS:
Member of ACS: American College of Surgeons, American Society of Transplantation Surgeons, Canadian Society of Transplantation, and Association of Southern Urologists of India.
Awarded the SIU/CUA (Societe Internationale d’ Urologie / Canadian Urological Association) scholarship.

Publications:
Catastrophic microangiopathy induced by high titres factor VIII inhibitor after liver transplantation for Hemophilia A with cirrhosis. Khakhar AK, Chan NG, Allan DS, Chakrabarti S, McAlister VC. Haemophilia. 2005 Nov;11(6):623-8
Retrograde reperfusion versus conventional orthograde technique in orthotopic liver transplantation. AK Khakhar, VC McAlister, D Quan, E Solano, H Yang, JN Mahy, WJ Wall. Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (2004) 19(Suppl.) A 681.

ABSTRACTS:

• Retrograde reperfusion versus conventional orthograde technique in orthotopic liver transplantation. Presented at the Young Investigators’ Award Podium session of the biennial conference of the Asian Pacific Association for the study of the Liver, New Delhi, December 2004
• Impact of allograft nephrectomy on % PRA and clinical outcome. Presented at the Annual meeting of the American Transplant Congress(ATC) at Washington DC in April, 2002 and at AUA USTVS meeting in Orlando Florida in June 2002.
• Dual kidney transplantation, a novel approach for suboptimal cadaver donor kidneys: our initial experience. Presented at the Sixth Congress of the Asian Society of Transplantation held at Singapore on the 19th to 24th September, 99.

Licenses:

• New York state medical license.
  
• Pennsylvania State Medical Board license for graduate medical education at PGY-7 level.
  
• CPSO (College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario) License for Post Graduate Medical Education

Membership to Professional organizations:
1. ACS: American College of Surgeons
2. American Society of Transplantation Surgeons
3. Canadian Society of Transplantation.
4. Association of Southern Urologists of India