Mohamed Akoad

Lahey Medical Center, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center

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Dr. Mohamed Akoad is a leading figure in hepatobiliary and transplant surgery, with a focused expertise in advancing minimally invasive techniques for living donor liver transplantation. His major contributions center on the rigorous evaluation and implementation of robotic and laparoscopic living donor hepatectomy. Notably, his 2024 study on "The learning curve for robotic living donor right hepatectomy" (17 citations) provides the first systematic analysis of this emerging procedure, establishing critical benchmarks for surgical training and patient safety. This work demonstrates that robotic donor surgery, while complex, can be mastered with a structured approach, potentially expanding the donor pool by reducing surgical trauma. Earlier, his 2013 paper "Laparoscopic Live Donor Hepatectomy: Random Mutation or Stepwise Evolution?" (13 citations) framed the adoption of laparoscopic techniques not as a spontaneous innovation but as a deliberate, decades-long evolutionary process requiring unwavering technical commitment. Through these studies, Dr. Akoad has helped define the safe, stepwise progression from open to minimally invasive donor surgery, directly impacting how transplant centers worldwide train surgeons and counsel living donors. His work underscores a career dedicated to making liver donation safer and more accessible through surgical innovation.