Yuri Genyk, MD

Dr. Genyk is a Professor of Clinical Surgery at the Keck School of Medicine and the Chief of the Division of Hepatobiliary/Pancreatic and Abdominal Organ Transplant Surgery. Additionally, he is an attending surgeon at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles (CHLA). Dr. Genyk graduated with honors from Ivano-Frankivk's Medical Institute in Ukraine. He received his postgraduate medical and research training at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center and Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. He is an expert in living-related donor liver transplantation, adult and pediatric liver transplantation, laparoscopic donor nephrectomy for kidney transplantation, pancreas transplantation as well as non-transplant hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery. Shortly after Dr. Genyk joined the USC faculty, the USC Liver Transplant Team pioneered living-related donor liver transplantation at CHLA and Keck Hospital of USC. Dr. Genyk is board certified in general surgery and ASTS certified in transplantation surgery. He is associate director of Abdominal Organ Transplant and surgical director of Living Donor Liver Transplant Program at USCUH, as well as surgical director of Pediatric Liver/Intestinal Transplant Program at CHLA. His research interests include innovations in live donor liver transplantation, new approaches to surgical treatment of extensive tumors of liver and pancreas, minimally invasive surgery for hepatobiliary and pancreatic diseases, liver regeneration and immunological tolerance in transplantation.