DR. GONZALO SAPISOCHIN Assistant Professor of Surgery UHN, Multi-Organ Transplant and HPB Surgical Oncology Division of General Surgery

Dr. Gonzalo Sapisochin is Staff Hepatobiliary and Transplant Surgeon at The Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network in Canada. Dr. Sapisochin received his Medical Diploma in 2005 from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain and went on to complete his General Surgery residency training in 2011 at the University Hospital of Vall d’Hebron in Barcelona where he successfully defended his Doctoral Thesis, “Optimization of Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma”, to receive his PhD be the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona. He went on to complete his Clinical Fellowship Hepatobiliary Surgical Oncology & Abdominal Transplant with the University of Toronto and was subsequently recruited in a position at the Toronto General Hospital as Staff Surgeon with the Division of General Surgery. He began his new job and tenure as Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto on January 1, 2016. Dr. Sapisochin main research interest is the “interface” between liver transplantation and cancer. He has focused his research in the management of hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma and colorectal liver metastases. Dr. Sapisochin has over 65 publications in peer reviewed journals. He has several publications in the field of transplant oncology in journals such as Hepatology, Annals of Surgery, Journal of Hepatology and Annals of Surgical Oncology. Currently he is the PI of clinical trials for liver transplantation for colorectal liver metastasis and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma. Dr. Sapisochin is developing new protocols and improving surgical management for patients with liver cancers.

Motto – Optimizing liver transplantation as a treatment of cancer