Consultant Transplant Surgeon

Consultant Transplant Surgeon
- Liver and Multi-Organ Care Job Snapshot Role: Consultant Transplant Surgeon
- Liver and Multi-Organ Care

Location:
Dubai, United Arab Emirates Industry: Hospital and Health Care Function: Physician

Experience:
Minimum 5-10 years post-fellowship consultant-level experience

Job Type
Full-time Position Overview Consultant Transplant Surgeon
- Liver and Multi-Organ Care in Dubai, United Arab Emirates is a senior Hospital and Health Care opportunity for an experienced transplant surgeon with advanced expertise in liver transplantation, abdominal organ transplantation, and complex hepatobiliary surgery. This hiring role is suited to a fellowship-trained surgeon capable of performing living donor and deceased donor liver transplants while supporting kidney, pancreas, organ procurement, perioperative management, and multidisciplinary transplant program development. Country: United Arab Emirates City: Dubai Industry: Hospital and Health Care Function: Physician

Salary:
85000-110000 Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer. Gender: Any Candidate Nationality: Any

Job Type
Full-time Role Context The Consultant Transplant Surgeon will deliver highly specialized surgical care for patients requiring liver and other abdominal organ transplantation. The position spans donor and recipient evaluation, technically complex transplant procedures, hepatobiliary surgery, organ procurement, postoperative management, and long-term coordination with transplant medicine teams.

Key Responsibilities
- Evaluate patients being considered for liver transplantation and participate in multidisciplinary transplant selection decisions.
- Review clinical history, liver disease severity, imaging, laboratory findings, comorbidities, and surgical risk.
- Perform living donor liver transplantation according to approved clinical protocols and surgical privileges.
- Undertake deceased donor liver transplant procedures and complex recipient operations.
- Participate in kidney, pancreas, and other abdominal organ transplant procedures where required.
- Perform complex hepatobiliary surgical procedures associated with transplant and advanced liver disease.
- Assess donor anatomy and surgical suitability in collaboration with transplant physicians, radiologists, and other specialists.
- Participate in living donor surgical planning with strong emphasis on donor safety.
- Conduct donor hepatectomy procedures according to established transplant standards.
- Perform recipient hepatectomy and liver graft implantation.
- Undertake vascular reconstruction and anastomosis during complex transplant procedures.
- Perform biliary reconstruction using appropriate surgical techniques.
- Apply advanced microsurgical principles where required for technically demanding vascular or biliary reconstruction.
- Manage intraoperative challenges including bleeding, vascular complications, anatomical variation, and graft-related technical issues.
- Participate in organ retrieval and procurement services.
- Coordinate donor organ assessment, preservation, and surgical logistics with procurement teams.
- Provide consultant-level on-call coverage for transplant emergencies and organ offers.
- Manage preoperative optimization for transplant recipients in coordination with hepatology and anesthesia teams.
- Provide comprehensive postoperative surgical management following liver transplantation.
- Monitor graft function, surgical recovery, wound status, drainage, vascular integrity, and biliary function.
- Identify and manage postoperative bleeding, thrombosis, biliary complications, infection, and other surgical complications.
- Coordinate urgent surgical intervention when graft or patient survival is threatened.
- Work closely with transplant hepatologists on immunosuppression, graft dysfunction, rejection, and long-term management.
- Collaborate with nephrologists when managing kidney transplant or combined organ transplant patients.
- Coordinate care with intensivists during immediate postoperative and critically ill transplant management.
- Work with anesthesiologists during high-risk transplant procedures and perioperative stabilization.
- Collaborate with interventional radiology for vascular, biliary, and postoperative transplant complications.
- Participate in multidisciplinary transplant rounds and formal transplant selection meetings.
- Support care for patients with acute liver failure requiring urgent transplant assessment.
- Manage complex hepatobiliary cases including appropriate liver tumors and advanced biliary disease.
- Participate in surgical decision-making for patients requiring transplantation versus alternative HPB procedures.
- Maintain accurate operative notes, transplant documentation, donor records, and postoperative treatment plans.
- Follow transplant-specific infection prevention, organ handling, surgical safety, and patient identification stand