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Mark Sturdevant, MD, is a transplant surgeon and co-director of the USC Transplant Institute, part of Keck Medicine of USC. His interests lie in adult and pediatric liver transplantation, with a particular focus on living donor and split liver transplantation as well as complex hepatobiliary procedures. Dr. Sturdevant believes in using minimally invasive techniques whenever possible to offer his patients a faster recovery and reduced risk of complications.
In addition to complex hepatobiliary surgery, Dr. Sturdevant is adept at the resection of abdominal tumors involving the hepatic hilum and inferior vena cava, liver resections requiring vascular reconstructions, and bile duct resections and reconstructions. He also performs both kidney and pancreas transplants, live donor nephrectomy and general surgical procedures, and he specializes in treating patients with end-stage liver disease, including through portal decompression procedures, and kidney disease.Dr. Sturdevant serves as a professor of clinical surgery and chief of the division of hepatobiliary, pancreas and abdominal transplant surgery, part of the Department of Surgery at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.Born and raised in Sioux City, Iowa, Dr. Sturdevant stayed close to home to complete his bachelor’s degree in biology, his medical degree and a one-year student fellowship in surgical pathology at the University of Iowa. He completed his general surgery training at the Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, and began his transplant training with an abdominal transplant fellowship at the University of Minnesota. He has since held faculty positions at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City; the University of Pittsburgh; the King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; and the University of Washington.
Liver transplantation in adults and children
Living-donor liver transplantation
Transplant oncology
Complex hepato- pancreato- and biliary surgery
Pancreas transplantation
Minimally invasive liver surgery
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