- Kidney transplant surgery
- Kidney-pancreas dual transplant surgery
- Liver transplant surgery
- Pancreas transplant surgery
Peter L. Abt, MD
Transplant Surgery
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Transplant Institute - Liver Transplant
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Surgical Director, Liver Transplant
- Professor of Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
My education and training
- Medical School: Dartmouth Medical School
- Residency: University of Rochester Medical Center
- Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System
Spoken languages
English
English
Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Americhealth Caritas of PA VIP - LGH Only
- Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only)
- Amerihealth Caritas of PA - LGH Only
- Amerihealth of NJ Core
- Amerihealth of NJ Enhanced
- Amerihealth of NJ HMO
- Amerihealth of NJ Local Value
- Amerihealth of NJ POS
- Amerihealth of NJ PPO
- Amerihealth of NJ Regional Preferred
- Amerihealth of NJ Secure
- Amerihealth of NJ Ultimate (PPO)
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Surgery, 2002
- American Association for The Study of Liver Diseases, National
- American College of Surgeons, National
- American Society of Transplant Surgeons, National
- American Society of Transplantation, National
- American Surgical Association, International
- Association for Academic Surgery, National
- Concord Normothermic Regional Perfusion Research Consortium Advisory Committee, National
- Data and Safety Monitoring Board for the Normothermic Machine Perfusion of Steatotic Livers for Expansion of Donor Organ Pool Trial, National
- International Liver Transplantation Society, International
- International Pediatric Transplant Association, International
- OPTN/UNOS Pancreas Transplantation Committee, National
- Society of University Surgeons, National
- The Transplantation Society, International
- Penn Kidney Transplant Program
- Penn Liver Transplant Program
- Penn Pancreas Transplant Program
- Recognized annually in Philadelphia Magazine's Top Docs issue from 2018 through 2025