- Kidney transplant surgery
- Liver transplant surgery
- Living donor kidney transplant
Samir Abu-Gazala, MD
Transplant Surgery
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Transplant Institute - Liver Transplant
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Surgical Director, Living Donor Kidney Transplant
- Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
My education and training
- Hebrew University Hadassah Medical CenterMedical School
- Mount Sinai Medical CenterResidency
- Hadassah Ein Kerem HospitalResidency
- Inbal SagiResidency
- University of Pennsylvania Health SystemFellowship
Spoken languages
English
English
Reviews
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.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: On the medical staff, but does not have privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Abu-Gazala is a Penn Medicine physician.
Qualifications and experience
- American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS), National
- ILTS, International
- International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHPBA), International
- International Living Donor Liver Transplantation (ILDLT) Study Group, International
- Israel Medical Association, International
- Israel Surgical Association, International
- Israel Transplant Society, International
- Israeli Society of HPB Surgery, International
- Kidney transplant
- Liver transplant
- Living donor kidney transplant
- Living organ donation
- Penn Transplant Institute
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Adeel S. Khan, Paolla Hampel, Haaris Kadri,Neeta Vachharajani, Jessica Lindemann, Amen Kiani,Caleb Harsin, Mark Hobeika, Teresa C. Rice, Giuliano Testa, Jesse Davidson, Michelle C. Nguyen, Atsushi Yoshida,Lauren Malinzak, Yee Lee Cheah, Chandra S. Bhati, Yanik J. Bababekov, Juan P. Rocca,Jason S. Hawksworth, Samir Abu-Gazala, Phillipe Abreu. Current Landscape of Robotic Training During Transplant Surgery Fellowship: A Survey of 2025-2026 ASTS Fellows and Program Directors , Journal of Surgical Education: 2026
Amanda Leonberg-Yoo , Kristin E Leonberg , Samir Abu Gazala , Sarah Hryzak , Robert R Redfield 3rd , Ronald F Parsons , Anish K Agarwal , M Kit Delgado , Daniel Lee , Jennifer Trofe Patient-reported Opioid use and Pain Management After Living Kidney Donation , Tranplant Direct: 2026
Kyle R Jackson , Samir Abu-Gazala How to Safely Expand the Donor Pool? Understanding the Risks and Benefits of Accepting or Declining an Older Donation After Circulatory Death Liver , Transplantation: 2026
Emre Arpali , Samir Abu-Gazala , Robert R Redfield 3rd , Amanda Leonberg-Yoo , Ty B Dunn Transplant center practices that maximize access to living kidney transplantation: the Penn experience , Front Immunol: 2026
LDLTregistry.org Collaborative Global Outcomes of Open Versus Laparoscopic Versus Robotic Donor Hepatectomy: A Prospective Study From the International LDLT Registry (LDLTregistry.org) , Transplantation: 2026
Hatipoglu D, Salinas Parra N, Kaplan DE, Abu-Gazala S, Mahmud N Impact of surgery duration on postoperative mortality in patients with cirrhosis , Gastro Hep Advances, 5(1): 2026,100771
Emre Arpali, Samir Abu-Gazala, Robert Redfield, III, Amanda Leonberg-Yoo and Ty Dunn Transplant Center Practices that Maximize Access to Living Kidney Transplantation: The Penn Experience , Frontiers in Immunology: 2025
Nicolas Muñoz , Samir Abu-Gazala Moving upstream: Understanding barriers to living donor liver donation in Hispanic and non-Hispanic candidates , Iver Transplantation: 2025,Epub ahead of print
Global variation in living donor liver transplantation practices impacts donor and recipient short-term outcomes: Initial insights from the International LDLT Registry , Am J Transplant, 25(8): 2025,1735-1745
Claire Cywes, Amay Banker , Nicolas Muñoz , Matthew Levine , Samir Abu-Gazala , Therese Bittermann , Peter Abt The Potential Utilization of Machine Perfusion to Increase Transplantation of Macrosteatotic Livers , Transplantation: 2024