Fady M. Kaldas, MD, FACS

Academic/Professional Titles

• Professor of Surgery
• Kelly Lee Tarantello Chair in Liver Transplantation
• Surgical Director, Liver Transplant Program
• Director, Transplant & Hepatobiliary Surgery Fellowship Program
• Co-Director, Heart-Liver Disease Program

Dr. Kaldas specializes in the surgical treatment of both benign and malignant liver diseases, including the removal of liver tumors and bile duct cancers, as well as complex primary and repeat liver transplants in both adults and children. He co-established the UCLA heart-liver disease program aimed at caring for patients with failing Fontan physiology or needing combined heart-liver transplantation. Dr. Kaldas serves as principal investigator on NIH and non-NIH funded research studies in ischemia reperfusion injury of the liver, liver transplant prognostic modeling, and heart-liver transplantation. He is the director of the UCLA Liver Transplant Service. Dr. Kaldas is committed to training the next generation of academic transplant surgeons, serving as the director of the UCLA Transplant & Hepatobiliary Surgery Fellowship Program. He holds leadership positions in national surgical organizations. He serves as a council member for the American Board of Surgery and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He has been invited to speak on his areas of expertise locally, nationally and internationally.