• Dr. Karthik Mathivanan is a well-known Liver Transplant Surgeon having 15 years of experience.

• His expertise lies in Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Transplants and Laparoscopic Gastro-Intestinal Surgeries.

• He has performed more than 2000 complex & high-risk liver surgeries and over 1000 successful kidney transplants.

• He is a pioneer in advocating ‘Organ Preservation’ that has resulted in successful transplants.

• He did Asia’s first living donor liver transplant for acute liver failure in a SARS 2 Covid positive recipient, the country’s first liver transplant with a Hypothermic Oxygenated Perfusion (HOPE) pump on an end-stage liver disease patient, India’s first Complete Multivesicular transplant, South India’s first combined Cardiac bypass and living donor liver transplant in a 70-year-old lady, India’s and the world’s smallest liver transplant recipient 2.1 kg, and India’s first successful Intestinal Transplant.

• He published India’s first and largest series of combined kidney and pancreas transplants and India’s largest series of adult-to-adult cadaver split liver transplants in 2014.

• He has numerous publications to his credit.

• He is a member of the International Liver Transplant Society, Liver Transplant Society of India, Association of Surgeons of India, and Indian Liver Transplant Society.