Roberto Hernandez Alejandro MD, FRCSC, FACS

Dr. Roberto Hernandez-Alejandro was the former Director of Liver Transplantation at Western University, Canada, and an Associate Professor of Surgery and Oncology. Dr. Hernandez-Alejandro completed an abdominal transplant and hepatic-pancreato-biliary (HPB) surgery fellowship from 2006-2008 at Western University, Canada. Subsequently, he received further training in live donor liver transplantation at the Kyoto University in Japan. Over the past 8 years, Dr. Hernandez-Alejandro's reputation for leadership and collaboration has helped to build one of the largest Transplant and Hepatobiliary Programs in Canada and is recognized in the broader surgical community nationally and internationally. He is a pioneer in liver resections for malignancy as well as Donation After Cardiac Death (DCD) Liver Transplantation. His research endeavors are primarily focused on liver regeneration and donation after cardiac death.

Dr. Hernandez-Alejandro has developed several protocols, as the principal investigator, in liver metastasis designed to improve the outcome in DCD's. A pioneer in North America with the ALPPS procedure in the management of liver metastases, Dr. Hernandez-Alejandro is frequently invited by national and international academic centers to give guest lectures on the topic. He has more than 50 peer-reviewed publications in the area of HPB and liver transplant.