Fady Kaldas

Fady M. Kaldas, M.D., F.A.C.S., Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Kelly Lee Tarantello Chair in Liver Transplantation, Co-Director of the UCLA Heart-Liver Disease Program, Director of the UCLA Adult Liver Transplant Service, and Director of the UCLA Multi-Organ Abdominal Transplantation & Hepatobiliary Surgery Fellowship Program. Dr. Kaldas completed his undergraduate studies in microbiology, immunology, and molecular genetics at UCLA and obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine. He completed his surgical residency training at SUNY Stony Brook Department of Surgery before returning to complete his fellowship at the UCLA Liver Transplant Program under the mentorship of Dr. Ronald W. Busuttil. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS), and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Kaldas is the Director of UCLA's Multi-Organ Abdominal Transplantation & Hepatobiliary Surgery Fellowship Program. He is committed to education having mentored numerous medical students, residents, and transplant surgery fellows for over a decade. He serves on a variety of educational committees and is the faculty advisor for the UCLA Transplant Surgery Interest Group. Additionally, he serves on a number of administrative committees and is the chair of the ASTS workforce committee. Dr. Kaldas has authored or co-authored nearly 100 peer-reviewed publications and is Principal investigator on NIH-funded and privately funded research studies. His academic interests include heart-liver transplantation and high acuity/complexity transplants, as well as ischemia reperfusion injury and cholangiocarcinoma. He has been an invited speaker locally, nationally, and internationally on liver disease and transplantation.