Dr. Anand Khakhar

MBBS, MS (General Surgery), DNB (Urology), ASTS Fellowship (USA)
Program Director & Senior Consultant – Liver Disease & Transplantation

Apollo Hospitals

24+ Years of Experience

Chennai

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Dr. Anand Khakhar is an internationally renowned liver transplant and hepatobiliary-pancreatic (HPB) surgeon who represents the global apex of multi-organ transplantation. Trained at world-renowned centers, including the University of Pittsburgh under Dr. Thomas Starzl and Columbia University, New York, he brings extensive global expertise to India. Dr. Khakhar is celebrated for pioneering complex living-donor and deceased-donor liver transplants, as well as landmark combined organ resections.

Living Donor Liver Transplantation (LDLT): Performing precision microsurgical donor hepatectomy and complex vascular and biliary graft reconstructions.
Pediatric & Adult Cadaveric Transplantation: Managing split-liver grafts, pediatric living-donor transplants, and high-acuity end-stage liver failure cases.
Complex HPB Surgical Oncology: Performing clear-margin resections for hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma, and pancreatic head tumors.
Laparoscopic & Robotic HPB Interventions: Providing minimally invasive surgical management for liver cysts, biliary strictures, and complex visceral tumors.

Co-executed Asia’s first successful en-bloc combined heart and liver transplant alongside the cardiac surgical team.
Performed India’s youngest successful pediatric liver transplant and the country’s first liver transplant for an HIV-positive recipient.
Served as Clinical Instructor at Columbia University Medical Center, New York, and has performed hundreds of liver transplant procedures globally.

Honored with the prestigious Dr. B.C. Roy National Award for outstanding clinical excellence in transplantation.
Certified Fellow of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) and Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS).