Stepan Akshelyan

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Stepan Akshelyan is a rising surgical researcher focused on advancing transplantation through robotic-assisted techniques and addressing critical challenges in kidney and pancreas transplantation. His work centers on two key areas: optimizing robotic-assisted simultaneous pancreas-kidney (SPK) transplantation and improving outcomes for obese patients with end-stage renal disease. His most cited paper, a single-center retrospective assessment of robotic-assisted SPK transplants (8 citations), explores the clinical utility of this minimally invasive approach, demonstrating its potential to reduce recovery times and complications. Akshelyan also tackles the growing epidemic of obesity in transplantation, authoring a comprehensive review (6 citations) that evaluates how to assess and treat obese candidates, highlighting the lack of uniform guidelines that create treatment disparities. His recent work on the largest reported cohort of robotic kidney transplantation from deceased donors (3 citations) analyzes the impact of cold ischemia time on graft function, providing crucial data to expand robotic approaches to deceased donor transplants. Through these contributions, Akshelyan is helping to shape safer, more accessible transplant options for high-risk populations, with his research gaining traction as evidenced by citations from peers in the field.