Mohammed Akhtar, MD, PhD

Dr. M. Zeeshan Akhtar is a liver transplant and hepatopancreaticobiliary (HPB) surgeon at the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute at Mount Sinai, New York — one of the highest-volume and most complex transplant programs in the United States. His practice spans the full breadth of liver transplantation, living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT), and advanced HPB surgery, including hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma, pancreatic cancer, bile duct reconstruction, and portal hypertension.

Dr. Akhtar operates across adult, pediatric, and multivisceral transplantation, managing patients with the most challenging and rare presentations seen in the field. His surgical scope includes combined organ transplants with complex disease — cases that demand the highest level of technical expertise and multidisciplinary coordination.

A graduate of surgical training at the University of Oxford, UK obtaining Fellowship to the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS), Dr. Akhtar completed advanced subspecialty fellowship training in transplant and HPB surgery at Mount Sinai before joining its faculty as an attending surgeon. He is an active investigator in organ preservation and machine perfusion, with particular expertise in normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) — a technology redefining the boundaries of transplantable organs and improving outcomes for critically ill patients.

Dr. Akhtar welcomes referrals from gastroenterologists, hepatologists, oncologists, and surgical colleagues for patients with complex liver disease, biliary tract malignancy, pancreatic tumours, intestinal failure, and end-stage organ disease requiring transplantation. Second opinions for patients travelling to New York are actively encouraged.